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November 2 | 5:30 pm

Student Choreography Showcase

Dance Performance Studio Theatre
Dance Building

Free - no tickets required

This production features work created by students outside of curricular requirements and is entirely created and produced by students within the Department of Dance. Often highlighted by multidisciplinary explorations, collaborations, fragments of class exercises expanded into fuller dances, and more, the concert is led by the Dance Student Assembly (DSA) intradepartmental group.

Concert Free North Campus
Two rows of seating overlook a studio with tall windows partially covered by white curtains.
November 2 | 7:30 pm

Dracula: Cutting Teeth with Hungry Ghosts World Premiere

Arthur Miller Theatre
Walgreen Drama Center

Free - Tickets Required

VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY, with the Department of Dance at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, presents DRACULA, with choreography by Shannon Gillen and Jason Reese Cianciulli, in collaboration with the performers.

Free Devised Tickets Required North Campus
November 2 | 8:00 pm

Xavier Perry, voice

Britton Recital Hall
Earl V. Moore Building

Free - no tickets required

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Undergraduate student Xavier Perry performs a recital.

Free North Campus
November 3 | 3:00 pm

BEETHOVEN: All Ten Sonatas for Violin & Piano in Two Parts/ Concert4aCause #35


Northside Community Church, 929 Barton Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Free - no tickets required

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Free and open to the public, this concert features 22 UM-SMTD performance majors. They are currently members of the violin studios of Professors Belen, Berofksy, Halen and Kim and the collaborative piano studio of Professor Otamendi. While immersing ourselves in all ten of this particular monumental Beethoven oeuvre presented in two parts, we also will celebrate the achievements of “Continuum Help Foundation.” This Washtenaw County nonprofit specializes in empowering developmentally disabled adults to lead more fulfilling, independent lives.

Concert Free
November 3 | 3:00 pm

Remember. Rejoice. Enlighten.


First United Methodist Church, 120 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Free - no tickets required

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Benjamin Gaughran, doctoral student in choral conducting, performs a second dissertation recital. In today’s recital, Gaughran will be joined from musicians from across the University of Michigan, the local Ann Arbor community and further afield in a program of choral music from Slovenia, Japan, Vienna and the United States. The main work for the concert is the American Midwest premiere of a piece by Roger Henry, a composer from Trinidad and Tobago, entitled Remembrance. This piece features orchestra, steel pan ensemble, soloists and chorus. A Pre-Concert Discussion begins at 2:15 pm.

Free Degree Recital
November 3 | 4:00 pm

Band-O-Rama


Hill Auditorium

Reserved Seating $25 / $20 / $11 (fees included)

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Hail, hail, the bands are all here! The Concert, Symphony, and Marching Bands team up for an energetic performance live on the stage of Hill Auditorium. The 2024 Band-O-Rama extravaganza celebrates our state. On the heels of a National Championship, “You Can in Michigan” is the attitude today, and the legendary band program at SMTD performs an exciting concert of music.

Concert Tickets Required Central Campus
BAND-O-RAMA title logo with graphic of a French horn in the O
November 3 | 5:30 pm

Resonant Soundscapes


Burton Memorial Tower

Free - no tickets required

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The Resonant Soundscapes Series is an invitation to the community to reflect in a wash of electronic and acoustic sound, presented by Garrett Schumann, Sarah Tea, and Julie Zhu. Earbuds are recommended for this 30 minute sound experience featuring live carillon, taking place in and around the Burton Memorial Tower on Central Campus.

Free Faculty Interdisciplinary Central Campus
November 3 | 7:30 pm

Karl Rueterbusch, percussion

McIntosh Theatre
Earl V. Moore Building

Free - no tickets required

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Undergraduate student Karl Rueterbusch performs a recital.

Free North Campus
November 4 | 12:00 pm

Jenna Moon, carillon


Burton Memorial Tower

Free - no tickets required

SMTD doctoral alumna Jenna Moon performs a 30 minute recital on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower, followed by visitor Q&A.

Alumni Free Talk Central Campus
12-ton bourdon bell inside Burton Tower