Music
Treat your ears to something special! Whether you like Rock, Folk, Jazz or Classical, Carroll is your venue for amazing musical acts of all types for all tastes. Each performance celebrates the skill and passion of our musicians, and we invite you to be part of an inspiring season of live music.
Current & Upcoming Music Events
Atlantic Guitar Quartet
Date: Friday, October 9, 7:00 p.m.
Location: The Hill Theater in the Scott Center
Cost: FREE
The Atlantic Guitar Quartet will present a program of new music by living composers featuring works by Ronald Pearl, Benjamin Verdery, Douglas Lora, Olga Amelkina-Vera, Fred Frith, and Judah Adashi.
The program includes Benjamin Verdery’s acclaimed Ellis Island, newly revised for the Atlantic Guitar Quartet; Olga Amelkina-Vera’s Seaglass, which received its premiere by the quartet and musically depicts the ocean’s gradual shaping of sea glass over time; Douglas Lora’s virtuosic Atlantic Variations, composed for the quartet in 2024; and Fred Frith’s The As Usual Dance Towards the Flight Towards What Is Not, adapted from its original version for electric guitar quartet. Also featured are two additional works written for the Atlantic Guitar Quartet: Judah Adashi’s Broken Hallelujah, a deconstructed homage to Leonard Cohen’s classic song, and Ronald Pearl’s title work, Together Apart, a three-movement reflection on making music while separated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biography
Founded in 2010, the Atlantic Guitar Quartet is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to promoting the music of living composers. Through virtuosic performances, innovative programming and collaborations with other visual and performing artists, AGQ has broadened the repertoire for – and the definition of – the classical guitar quartet.
Each of the four members, Mark Edwards, James Keretses, Matthew Slotkin and Zoë Johnstone Stewart have enjoyed extensive solo and chamber performing careers prior to joining the ensemble. As a group AGQ has performed as part of the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society concert series, Ulster Chamber Series, Evolution Contemporary Music series, and at Salisbury University, York College of Pennsylvania, Loyola University, Marshall University and the Peabody Institute. They have been artists-in-residence at the Engineers Club of the Garret-Jacobs Mansion in Baltimore since 2010 and members of the Maryland State Arts Council Touring Roster since 2017. In addition to their performances, the quartet has also been invited to teach master classes and workshops at the Peabody Summer Guitar Intensive, Salisbury University, Bloomsburg University and the Mid Atlantic Guitar Ensemble Festival.
AGQ has been proactive in expanding the repertoire of the classical guitar quartet by commissioning new works. With major institutional support by the Presser Foundation and the Peabody Conservatory, AGQ has premiered pieces by American composers Vid Smooke, Christopher Gainey and Ronald Pearl. Several of these works, along with music by composer Olivier Bensa and Arvo Pärt, are featured on the quartet’s debut CD (released in November of 2013).
The quartet’s other world premieres include performances of works by Douglas Lora, Benjamin Verdery, Judah Adashi, Olga Amelkina-Vera and many others.
Punk Rock Pop-Up featuring Massie
Date: Thursday, October 22, 3 p.m.
Location: Student Engagement Lounge – Naganna Center (Room K 119)
Cost: FREE
Massie is a three-piece garage pop band from Washington, DC. For fans of Wet Leg, Momma, L7.
Massie is a power pop trio (comprised of Emily Yaremchuk, Samantha Collings, and Avery Greeson) from the vibrant punk scene of Washington D.C. With their roots firmly planted in the city’s iconic punk heritage, Massie brings a girlish twist to the genre, infusing intricate three-part harmonies and melodies with a pop sensibility, over their bubble-punk infused instrumentals reminiscent of late 90’s and early 2000’s alternative rock.Punk
Ayreheart: Renaissance, Traditional Roots, Contemporary Folk
Date: Friday, November 20, 7 p.m.
Location: Kelly W. Hill Theatre – Scott Center (Room T 304)
Cost: FREE
Renaissance meets traditional roots meets contemporary folk, this is lute-driven music for modern folk, in a unique blend of lute with vocals, colascione (a kind of bass lute), violin, guitar, and percussion.
Ayreheart, a progressive, renaissance-folk quartet founded by GRAMMY-nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane, restores the lute to its former glory – but in a modern context. With backgrounds in rock, folk, and jazz, the members of Ayreheart bring fresh energy to old traditions.
Student Ensembles
Westminster Symphony Orchestra:
Director: Linda Kirkpatrick
Assistant Director: Cindy Rosenberg
Date: Saturday, December 5th, 3:00 p.m.
Location: Alumni Hall at McDaniel College
Cost: FREE
Rock ‘N’ Roll Ensemble (01 & 02 Sections)
Directed by: Athena Hiotis
Date: Monday, December 7th, 7:00 p.m.
Location: The Hill Theater in the Scott Center
Cost: FREE
Rock ‘N’ Roll Ensemble (03 Section)
Directed by: Athena Hiotis
Date: Tuesday, December 8th, 7:00 p.m.
Location: The Hill Theater in the Scott Center
Cost: FREE
Vocal Chamber Ensemble & Jazz Combo Concerts
Vocal Chamber Ensemble directed by: Stephanie Schmidt
Jazz Combo directed by: Kevin Laird
Date: Friday, December 11th, 7:00 p.m.
Location: The Hill Theater in the Scott Center
Cost: FREE
Student Recitals
Join us for our delightful lunchtime performances highlighting selected voice and instrumental music students.
Date: Thursday, October 8th,1:00 p.m.
Location: The Hill Theater in the Scott Center
Cost: FREE
Date: Wednesday, November 18th, 1:00 p.m.
Location: The Hill Theater in the Scott Center
Cost: FREE
