Performances A to Z (2008-2009 Season)
With almost 1,000 performances and events each year, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center brings the creative process front and center, both onstage and off. Explore our offerings in the list below, or use the calendar or search function to the left, to find performances and educational events that speak to your interests.
- 2009 Choreographers' Showcase
- 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal
- Aquila Theatre Company
- Atos Trio
- Bang on a Can Marathon
- Camerata Nordica
- David Dorfman Dance
- David Gonzalez: Wounded Splendor
- David Roussève/Reality
- Ensemble Galilei: First Person: Stories from the Edge of the World
- Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir with the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
- Gretchen Parlato and Esperanza Spalding
- Imani Winds (February 2009)
- Jessye Norman: The Duke and the Diva
- Joe Goode Performance Group: Wonderboy and Maverick Strain
- Kathrine Iacono
- Kathy Mattea
- Kronos Quartet: Alternative Radio
- Kronos Quartet: Black Angels
- New York Festival of Song: Voice of the Jewish Diaspora
- Paul Zaloom
- Rha Goddess: Low
- Simon Shaheen
- Sones De México Ensemble
- Squonk Opera: AstroRama
- Steve Wilson Quartet
- Steven Isserlis, cello
- The Grand Inquisitor
- UM Department of Dance: Making Dances/Taking Chances (Fall 2008)
- UM Department of Dance: Making Dances/Taking Chances: Graduate Concert (Spring 2009)
- UM Department of Dance: Maryland Dance Ensemble (Spring 2009)
- UM Department of Dance: Maryland Dance Ensemble: Work by Guest Artist Keith Johnson
- UM Department of Theatre: Anton in Show Business
- UM Department of Theatre: Between Trains
- UM Department of Theatre: The Illusion
- UM Department of Theatre: The Winter's Tale
- UM Department of Theatre: To Be Young, Gifted and Black
- UM School of Music: “…and from Darkness, Light”
- UM School of Music: Eugene Onegin
- UM School of Music: Alienated Artists — Determined Voices
- UM School of Music: Annual "Pops" Concert (2009)
- UM School of Music: Annual Kaleideidoscope of Bands
- UM School of Music: Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
- UM School of Music: Channeling Glenn Gould
- UM School of Music: From Venice to Leipzig via Amsterdam - Bach and the Concerto
- UM School of Music: Gypsy Wanderings
- UM School of Music: Handel's Xerxes
- UM School of Music: Spring Big Band Showcase (2009)
- UM School of Music: Summer Chorus
- UM School of Music: The Guarneri Quartet in Concert
- UM School of Music: The Maryland Chorus - Annual Holiday Concerts
- UM School of Music: The Maryland Chorus - Mother's Day Concert (2009)
- UM School of Music: UM Chorale & Chamber Singers
- UM School of Music: UM Symphony Orchestra
- UM School of Music: UM Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Singers
- UM School of Music: UM Symphony Orchestra: Mahler’s Fifth Symphony
- UM School of Music: UM Symphony and Wind Orchestras
- UM School of Music: University Chorale & UM Chamber Singers: Stravinsky’s Les Noces
- UM School of Music: Winter Big Band Showcase
- Wayne Shorter Quartet with Imani Winds



