Livewire 15: Blazing Trails
Location
Performing Arts & Humanities Building
Date
October 16, 2025 – Oct 18, 2025 (All Day Event)
Description
The Department of Music presents the Livewire 15: Blazing Trails new music festival. Through concerts and other events, Livewire celebrates the innovators, the brave, the experimental, the “firsts”: the trail blazers. Each event celebrates artists who forged new directions, challenged barriers, and opened doors for those who followed. We are proud to present Zosha Di Castri as our composer in residence.
Thursday, October 16
6:45 p.m., The Music Box
Keynote talk with Zosha Di Castri
7:30 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall
RUCKUS, the faculty ensemble in residence at UMBC, performs a concert of works by Zosha Di Castri, Sofia Gubaidulina, Tania León, George Lewis, and Joan Tower. Please visit here for complete information.
6:45 p.m., The Music Box
Keynote talk with Zosha Di Castri
7:30 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall
RUCKUS, the faculty ensemble in residence at UMBC, performs a concert of works by Zosha Di Castri, Sofia Gubaidulina, Tania León, George Lewis, and Joan Tower. Please visit here for complete information.
Friday, October 17
12 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall
Emerging Artists Concert
1:30 p.m., The Music Box
Zosha Di Castri Presents Her Music
6:45 p.m., The Music Box
Pre-concert talk with richard valitutto, Julius Eastman scholar and editor of this evening’s edition of Femenine
7:30 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall
For the second evening of the Livewire 15 new music festival, the RUCKUS ensemble is joined by UMBC affiliate faculty to present Julius Eastman’s concert-length work, Femenine. Please visit here for complete information.
12 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall
Emerging Artists Concert
1:30 p.m., The Music Box
Zosha Di Castri Presents Her Music
6:45 p.m., The Music Box
Pre-concert talk with richard valitutto, Julius Eastman scholar and editor of this evening’s edition of Femenine
7:30 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall
For the second evening of the Livewire 15 new music festival, the RUCKUS ensemble is joined by UMBC affiliate faculty to present Julius Eastman’s concert-length work, Femenine. Please visit here for complete information.
Saturday, October 18
12:30 p.m., The Music Box
Alison Knowles: Proposition #2, Made a Salad
How often do you get a chance to eat a work of art? RUCKUS presents a lunchtime performance of Alison Knowles’s groundbreaking Fluxus work, Proposition #2: Make a Salad. Please visit here for complete information.
2 p.m., The Music Box
Thomas Moore: John Cage‘s Etudes Australes and their call to action
Maleke Glee: Sonic-Hybrity and Interdisciplinary Interventions in Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter
7:30 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall
With characteristic elan and virtuosity, Ensemble Bravura and conductor Philip Mann present a multifaceted and eclectic Livewire 15 festival finale exploring human interconnection, with works by David Baker, Jennifer Higdon, Myroslav Skoryk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Joan Tower. Please visit here for complete information.
12:30 p.m., The Music Box
Alison Knowles: Proposition #2, Made a Salad
How often do you get a chance to eat a work of art? RUCKUS presents a lunchtime performance of Alison Knowles’s groundbreaking Fluxus work, Proposition #2: Make a Salad. Please visit here for complete information.
2 p.m., The Music Box
Thomas Moore: John Cage‘s Etudes Australes and their call to action
Maleke Glee: Sonic-Hybrity and Interdisciplinary Interventions in Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter
7:30 p.m., Linehan Concert Hall
With characteristic elan and virtuosity, Ensemble Bravura and conductor Philip Mann present a multifaceted and eclectic Livewire 15 festival finale exploring human interconnection, with works by David Baker, Jennifer Higdon, Myroslav Skoryk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Joan Tower. Please visit here for complete information.
This event is supported in part by the Arts+ initiative.
