Upcoming Events
Our 2024-2025 Season
Get ready for a year packed with captivating performances, incredible stories, and unforgettable moments on stage. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to our Master Player Concert Series family, there's something special for everyone in the upcoming season.
Gold Medalists: The Sinta Quartet
SAT, October 5, 2024 | 3 P.M. ET | Gore Recital Hall
The international prize-winning Sinta Quartet returns to Master Players after their electrifying sold-out debut performance in 2015. Since making history as the first saxophone ensemble to win the Victor Elmaleh First Prize from the Concert Artists Guild Competition in 2013, the Sinta Quartet has won numerous gold medals and grand prizes, published three acclaimed albums, and performed in great halls and nontraditional venues around the world.
United Voices of America: Morgan State University Choir & UD Chorale
SAT, November 2, 2024 | 8 P.M. ET | Mitchell Hall
The Morgan State University Choir is one of the nation’s most prestigious University choral ensembles. Representing the largest historically Black college in Maryland, the ensemble has performed on six continents at the invitation of leading diplomats, worked with prominent orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and sung in historic locations such as Carnegie Hall and the White House. Following their popular debut with Master Players over a decade ago, the choir returns to UD to perform alongside the University of Delaware Chorale, winner of numerous national and international choral competitions and ambassador of UD choral excellence across the globe.
The choirs will perform a program celebrating the great traditions of American vocal music led by Morgan State University Choir’s director Eric Conway and UD Chorale’s Unidel Professor of Music Paul D. Head.
Big Band Holidays: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra featuring Vocalists Ekep Nkwelle and Robbie Lee
SAT, December 14, 2024 | 8 P.M. ET | Thompson Theatre
For more than 20 years, the Master Players Holiday Pops concert has been a festive highlight of the holiday season in Delaware. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) will come to spread holiday cheer during its annual Big Band Holidays concert tour. Jazz at Lincoln Center rising star vocalists Ekep Nkwelle and Robbie Lee join the JLCO to bring Yuletide greetings to Master Players audiences during their Delaware debut.
Under the direction of JLCO trombonist, Chris Crenshaw, the evening will feature soulful renditions of holiday classics, playful improvisation, and entertaining storytelling. Enjoyed by all ages, this uplifting performance will create lasting memories you and your family will treasure for years to come.
Creating Shanghai Sonatas: A Musical Conversation
SAT, February 15, 2025 | 3 P.M. ET | Gore Recital Hall
The new UD-born musical Shanghai Sonatas explores the remarkable exchange of cultures between Western refugees and their Eastern hosts. Framed by the fading glamor of this “Paris of the East” and the urgency to escape violent prejudice, stories of survival, moments of compassion, forbidden love, and – above all – beautiful music bring these two communities closer than ever before. Promoting the unifying power of music on all peoples, Shanghai Sonatas is gaining international attention and support for its universal and timely themes of belonging, unity, and hope.
Rach & Roll: Pianist Asiya Korepanova
SAT, March 15, 2025 | 3 P.M. ET | Gore Recital Hall
In 2018, pianist Asiya Korepanova gave a phenomenal solo recital with only three days notice. She returned in 2019 for another sold-out recital that secured her status as a “Master Players favorite”. Six seasons later, Master Players welcomes her back for an all-Rachmaninoff program that will promise to take her Delaware fans’ breath away.
iMusic 14: ARTificial
SUN, April 27, 2025 | 3 P.M. ET | Gore Recital Hall
The iMusic series of concerts are known for their freshness, originality, and for experimenting with futuristic audience experiences. Featuring UD ensemble-in-residence 6-WIRE and other world-class collaborators who have performed alongside Master Players founding Director Sean Gao during his quarter-century international performing career, this new entry in the iMusic series will explore the differences between AI and human creativity in an interactive concert that combines virtuosity and innovation.
