The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland is an integrated arts laboratory where artists, arts scholars, students and arts administrators collaborate to spark inspiration and build a better future for the arts. As an intellectually curious and socially conscious community, The Clarice leverages creativity, scholarship, innovation and community engagement across the arts to foster expression, generate curiosity and inspire a greater good.
District5 is a daring, Washington DC-based wind quintet that specializes in new music and new transcriptions. They are recipients of a 2016 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant with composer Evis Sammoutis and have recently performed at "The REACH" at the Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks, U.S. Department of State, Library of Congress, Barns at Wolf Trap, DC Kosciuszko Foundation, and the Anderson House. In 2014, they gave the U.S. premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's ROTARY Woodwind Quintet.
With the mission to preserve the legacy of the remarkable life of Anna H. Wang, the Anna H. Wang Concert Series seeks to hold in sacred trust, the gift of music to humankind by:
Enhancing artistic excellence in the Maryland community through concert performances by world class artists.
Creating unparalleled opportunities for young talent to be inspired and nurtured by internationally renowned musicians.
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WORD DANCE THEATER’S MISSION is to provide dance education through classes, workshops, partnerships, and performances that are embodied and expressive celebrations of life. Our work preserves and cultivates the dance legacy of Isadora Duncan through a return to the body that encourages the strength, beauty, and right of freedom of each person exactly as they are. Through creative educational experiences and performances, we embolden all genders, sexes, and identities to manifest well-being in today’s world.
Baltimore-based Mount Vernon Virtuosi is an innovative chamber orchestra of exceptional young musicians who are in transition from their studies to a professional career. Founded by cellist, pedagogue, and conductor Amit Peled, the ensemble alternates between a free-of-charge concert season in several Baltimore area communities with events in Virginia, greater Washington DC, and beyond. The Mount Vernon Virtuosi regularly performs at three venues in Maryland – the Pratt Library in Baltimore, Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church in Silver Spring, and the Bender JCC in Rockville.
The Trust is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization incorporated in Maryland a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Maryland corporation. The Trust controls the Park pursuant to a perpetual easement granted by the Columbia Association, Inc. (“CA”) to the Trust in 2014 (the “Perpetual Easement”). The Perpetual Easement required that the Trust develop Merriweather Park at Symphony Woods into a destination arts and culture park in accordance with the 2013 Inner Arbor Plan.
Dedicated to Art for All, Maryland Hall is the region’s cultural core, convening and engaging all people in arts experiences that strengthen the community. We welcome, connect, and enrich all with inspiring arts experiences.
Voices In Praise is a faith-based, community youth choir program open to all students in Grades 4 - 12 without audition. The primary ensemble is a 40-voice youth choir that performs regularly throughout the Baltimore-Washington region, and has traveled throughout the USA, Canada, Ireland, Russia, and Belize.
Joe's Movement Emporium inspires creativity through cultural experiences supporting arts education, job training, and a creative community. A community where everyone can be creative, confident and connected.
As Southern Maryland’s only community orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Southern Maryland in Concert (COSMIC) affords residents the opportunity to enjoy high-quality orchestral music without leaving Southern Maryland. Performances are scheduled in St. Mary’s, Charles, and Calvert Counties.