UMD performs at Rhizome - works by Wolfe, Reich, Beethoven, Fields, Rojas

Monday October 19 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $10-20 * TICKETS UMD at Rhizome: Despite being a mere fifteen-minute drive from each other, the University of Maryland's School of Music and Rhizome can feel worlds apart. No more! This bill presents the most experimental student and faculty voices from UMD performing music for string quartet, percussion, and piano by Julia Wolfe, Catherine Fields, Steve Reich (Part I of his canonic Drumming ), John Pablo Rojas, and the O.G. musical radical Ludwig van Beethoven. Hosted by musicologist Will Robin. The Atria Quartet formed in 2025 as the University of Maryland School of Music's fellowship string quartet and serves as the school's flagship chamber string ensemble. The members are Mari Jo Downing (MM'27) and Gaby Echiverri (MM'27) on violin, Nicholas Wilbur on viola (DMA'27), and John Pablo Rojas (MM'27) on cello. The University of Maryland Percussion Quartet comprises William Brown (DMA), Kayden Smutz (MM), Ryder Haines (MM), and Trent Bowman (BM). Based at the University of Maryland, the quartet performs regularly in a variety of university ensembles while also maintaining active careers with orchestras, classical music festivals, and chamber ensembles. Jonathan Bisesi is currently the Director of the Percussion Studio at the University of Maryland where he teaches private lessons, directs the UMD Percussion Ensemble, teaches courses in Percussion History and Literature, Percussion Pedagogy and the UMD Percussion Department Studio Class. Catherine Fields is a Northern Virginia-based composer and pianist whose music spans wind band, orchestra, voice, piano, and chamber ensemble.