Department of Music and Theatre Performances

Pianist Max Lifchitz celebrates the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month performing a recital featuring music by Mexican composers.

Pianist Max Lifchitz marks the ending of Hispanic Heritage Month performing a recital featuring dance-inspired music from the Americas.

This poetic drama, about the choices in the life of a young artist, made the yet-unknown playwright an overnight sensation.

This program of guitar music features solo classical pieces as well as jazz ensemble selections arranged by Sam Piazza.

This comedy is set in the kitchen of a truck stop where the art of making a sandwich is perfected by a group of formerly incarcerated individuals.

Students in the vocal program perform staged versions of classical and contemporary song repertoire.

The Capital Region’s wind quintet offers a program of chamber music repertoire by women composers, both living and deceased, including Chen Yi, Judith Zaimont & Beata Moon.

Mioi Takeda and Lynn Bechtold perform music for two violins by contemporary composers including Capital District composers Hilary Tann, Max Lifchitz and Rain Worthington.

Music Program ensembles (Chorale, Chamber Singers, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Symphony Orchestra, Spirit Band) are joined by student groups (Serendipity, Pitch Please) for a concert celebrating the season.

Two of the University’s large ensembles present a shared program.

Pianist Max Lifchitz performs piano music by American composers.

Pianist Kuok-Wai Lio presents two great works side by side: the Handel Chaconne in G Major, HWV435 and Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988.

Unfolding with music and merriment, a nearly all-female cast of players takes on Shakespeare’s classic comedy about the politics of empowerment and who wears the pants when two fabulously headstrong individuals fall in love.

This concert of percussion music features four ensembles.

Two of the University’s large ensembles present a shared program.

Pianist Max Lifchitz introduces his recent composition Is Spring Right? for the left hand alone.

Violinist & Julliard student Julia Jones and pianist & Indiana University student Nitai Feldman join forces to present a recital for violin and piano featuring music by Bach, Lieberman, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Paganini and Ysaye.

This spring festival of brand-new plays is written, directed, and performed by students...the future of the American theatre!

Vocal students complete their study of the operatic and oratorio repertoire with this staged production.

The annual festival includes musicians of all ages from around the Capital Region.

The UAlbany Chamber Singers and Community Chorale perform separately and combined in a program of music from a wide array of styles and culture.

Directed by Keith Pray, this student and community ensemble presents a concert featuring classic and contemporary jazz.

A host of performers showcase their vocal and instrumental talents as part of their departmental studies.

Tenor Andrew Calvacca performs with accompaniment by pianist Trevor Kahlbaugh.

With conductor Christopher David Neubert, this large ensemble performs works representing outstanding repertoire from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods of the 20th and 21st centuries.