Performances & Events
North University and Thayer Street directly adjacent to Hill Auditorium will be closed for construction during the 2026 fall semester. We recommend event attendees arrive early, anticipate limited parking, and consider public transit options.
Construction will limit access to the Thayer Street Parking Structure. The Power Center Fletcher Street Parking Structure or the Palmer Structure are the nearest alternatives.
Increased traffic and limited parking may impact attendees of events at Hill Auditorium, Rackham Auditorium, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, and the Power Center.
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Jazz Ensemble & Jazz Trombone Ensemble at the Detroit Jazz Festival
Waterfront Stage, Hart Plaza, Downtown Detroit, MI
Free - no tickets required
Catch the U-M Jazz Ensemble and U-M Jazz Trombone Ensemble performing in downtown Detroit at the world’s largest free jazz festival.
Free - no tickets required
Jayce Ogren conducts the CDE in a program of works by Steve Reich, Jordan Nobles, and Frederic Rzewski.
Division Street Pipes
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 306 N. Division St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Free - no tickets required
Join us as undergraduate student Latimer Rogland performs a 30-minute organ recital. Division Street Pipes concerts features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department on Thursdays at 12:15pm on the Richards-Fowkes organ at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening.
Avian Lumina
Livestreaming
Free - no tickets required
Through the use of puppetry, projections and sound, Avian Lumina sparks hope, healing, and connection to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Conceived, designed, and developed by Christianne Myers in collaboration with Halena Kays, Katie Hopgood & Jess Fialko, and in partnership with Theatre & Drama students Vera Alonzo, Kelly Burkel, and Simon Nigam. Join the livestream virtually for a 15 minute story honoring loss and renewal.
Avian Lumina
Livestreaming
Free - no tickets required
Through the use of puppetry, projections and sound, Avian Lumina sparks hope, healing, and connection to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Conceived, designed, and developed by Christianne Myers in collaboration with Halena Kays, Katie Hopgood & Jess Fialko, and in partnership with Theatre & Drama students Vera Alonzo, Kelly Burkel, and Simon Nigam. Join the livestream virtually for a 15 minute story honoring loss and renewal.
Nicholas Walker, double bass
Blanche Anderson Moore Recital HallEarl V. Moore Building
Free - no tickets required
SMTD Professor of Double Bass Nicholas Walker performs a recital with special guest Jacob Warren, double bass. The recital will begin with Professor Walker’s transcription for double bass of J. S. Bach’s Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV 1013. The second half of the program will feature 8 original works by Nicholas Walker: In April of 2017 Walker wrote ZUGZWANG – Eight Duos for Double Basses, for Matthew McDonald & Rick Stotijn to play at the 50th Anniversary ISB Convention in Ithaca. The three bassists have a deep love of Germanic music, although they each hail from non-German countries. This inspired a work for bassists from all cultures to play together, eight duos that depict “Eight German language words that do not exist in English, but ought to.”
Free - no tickets required
Graduate student Abigail Peel performs a final master’s degree recital.
Avian Lumina
Livestreaming
Free - no tickets required
Through the use of puppetry, projections and sound, Avian Lumina sparks hope, healing, and connection to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Conceived, designed, and developed by Christianne Myers in collaboration with Halena Kays, Katie Hopgood & Jess Fialko, and in partnership with Theatre & Drama students Vera Alonzo, Kelly Burkel, and Simon Nigam. Join the livestream virtually for a 15 minute story honoring loss and renewal.
CONTESTED: Libretto Workshop Reading and Audience Response
Stamps AuditoriumWalgreen Drama Center
Free - Registration Required
A public libretto reading of a new opera-in-progress, Contested: The Monument and the Shadow, by librettist Anita Gonzalez with composer Joel Thompson. Moving between past and present, the opera explores the construction and removal of Confederate monuments in the American South, examining how societies preserve, challenge, and reckon with contested histories. It brings conflicting perspectives into dialogue and invites audiences to consider whose memories are preserved, how historical narratives evolve, and what it means to confront the legacy of the past. Audience members will have the opportunity to respond to the work and provide feedback to the creative team. Come to be a part of the creative process and to get a sneak peak at this new opera in development!
“Blow Up” – Grad Student Dance Concert
Dance Performance Studio TheatreDance Building
Master of Fine Arts in Dance candidate Olga Rabetskaya presents dance works generated during the first year of the MFA program.
