During the past fifty years, the music world has witnessed the development of a new approach to the wind band, an approach that has drawn attention to an emerging original repertoire and to new performance possibilities for concerted wind music. Many conductors, composers and performers have moved from the popular-culture aspects of the traditional band toward a classical performance-based medium. Using an instrumentation similar to that of a "double orchestral wind section", the wind ensemble performs music composed during the past five centuries for winds, brass, percussion and keyboards. A majority of the repertoire composed specifically for various combinations of these instruments has been created during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With the rich history of the past, the contemporary wind ensemble provides a wide variety of music ranging from the classical octet to contemporary chamber repertoire and the sonorous full ensemble.

The University of Connecticut Collegium Musicum consists of approximately 24 highly select singers and 15 instrumentalists. Its purpose is to promote an understanding of the music of the late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque period with regard to style, performance practices, and cultural milieu. During J.S. Bach's lifetime (1685–1750), a collegium musicum was a group of amateur musicians, primarily university students, who met to rehearse and perform for pleasure. The term is commonly used today to refer to ensembles of instrumentalists and singers that perform early music.

This concert is Suryun Kim's second doctoral recital.

Robert Schumann's Song Cycle:- Dichterliebe Ralph Vaughan Williams ' Song Cycle : Songs of Travel Maurice Ravel's: - Song Cycle - Don Quichotte à Dulcinee Bahamian Folk Songs

This concert will feature several different UConn Choirs.

The UConn Jazz Ensemble is serving up M & M's tonight—but don't worry, these won't melt in your hand. Every tune on the program is tied together by the letter "M," whether it's in the title or the composer's name. Think of it as a jazzy grab bag: McNeely, McConnell, McGuinness, Mastroianni Mintzer, Mossman, and maybe even a surprise or two. A concert that's sweet, colorful, and guaranteed to hit the spot.