Visiting Artists

1956-1959

Joffrey Theatre Dancers  

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (1956 & 1957)

Charles Eggert film Danger River

Oedipus Rex film

US Army Field Band

Bishop’s Group, theatrical troupe

The Secrets of the Underwater World, film presented by Paul Cherney

US Army Showmobile (1958 & 1959)

US Army Major Company Chorus Music Panorama

Glenn Miller Orchestra

Dr. Francisco Cespedez, Department of Central Affairs for Republic of Panama

Michel Sénéchal, French tenor 

Louis Untermeyer, anthologist and lecturer 

 

1960 - 1969

Gerson Yessin, concert pianist

Victor Cherubim, Ceylonese student leader

Hugh Miller, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Bare Boards and a Passion

Don Freeman, artist/cartoonist Sketchbook Review

The Canadian Players in George Bernard Shaw’s St. Joan

Dr. Peter Arnott, puppeteer The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

Larry Elgart and His Orchestra 

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quintet

Teresa and Compañia Española 

Woody Herman David Kwok An Introduction to Chinese Painting

Dame Judith Anderson, Medea ’62 and Lady MacBeth  

Russian and Red China, Harrison Salisbury, New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize Winner

The Lettermen 

Dr. Albert Burke Ideals and Reality

The Tamburitzans of Duquesne University (1963, 1964, 1967)

Norman Thomas, American Newspaper Guild

Viktor Labunski, pianist

The Second Army Showmobile A World of Wonder w/Periwinkle Puppets

Drew Pearson, journalist

W.D. Snodgrass, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

Dr. Albert Burke Ideas in Conflict

The Modern Folk Quartet

University of MD Players Anything Goes

Bonnie Dobson, folk singer/songwriter

Sir Fergus Montgomery, Member of Parliament

Elisabeth Söderström, soprano

Tran van Dihn, Saigon Post

Dr. P. Calvin Maybury The Relation of Science and Religion

Feldman String Group

Carlos Montoya, Flamenco guitarist   

Suzanne Bloch, lutenist

TRIAD Dance Company

Emmé Kemp, singer-pianist

Dr. Murray Banks What to Do Until the Psychiatrist Comes

The Medleys, duo pianists

Estelle Fedelle, artist

Dr. Leonard Reiffel, Apollo Program Deputy Director

The Tamburitzans

Oscar McCullough, Baritone

Robert Decormier Folk Singers  

The National Players The Birds and The Merchant of Venice

New York Jazz Sextet

The Paul Taylor Dancers

The Coasters 

The Manhattan Baroque Ensemble

Van Dexter’s Commedia Dell’Arte Players

Percy Sledge 

University of Delaware String Quartet 

Conference: The Black Contribution to America

Lecture Series: Sex, Sexuality and Life

New York Pro Musica

David Christian, lecturer Correcting the Correctors

Peppermint Rainbow

Julian Bream, classical guitarist 

 

1970 - 1979

Cannonball Adderley Quintet 

Percival Borde and Company The Talking Drums of Africa

The Brooklyn Bridge

Paris Rive Gauche

Jacques Kayal et Compagnons   

Al Fann Theatrical Ensemble Masks in Brown

The Erick Hawkins Dance Company

Charlie Byrd  

Tony Montanaro On Mime   

Tony Montanaro & Peter Ford A Mime’s Eye View

Tony Montanaro The Open Circle Mime Theatre

Tony Montanaro performance with FSC students

Claude Frank, pianist  

Geoffrey Holder

The Sierra Leone National Dance Troupe

University of Maryland Woodwind Quintet

John Chapell Mark Twain Tonight

Maynard Ferguson

The National Players in Franz Kafka’s The Trial

Jack London (a show on ESP)

Charlie Byrd Quartet 

Joffrey II Toward the Year 2000

Bach’s Uncle

Native American Symposium

The Duquesne University Tamburitzans

Alberta Driver

Three Lives

Highwoods String Band

Goodman and Edwards

Frederick Storaska To Be Raped … or … Not To Be Raped

Claude Kipnis Mime Theatre

I Solisti Di Zagreb

Harlem Heyday

W.C. Fields, 80 Proof!

Dr. Gerald Mast

New World Consort

George McGovern

Roy Buchanan with Harry Traynham

Viveca Lindfors

Alex Haley

Inter Action Quartet

Mike Seeger  

Jerry Jarrett An Evening with Tevye

Roy Meriwether Trio 

Dick Gregory Social Problems: Social or Anti-Social? 

Chuck Mangione Quartet

John Sack

Danny Cox

Jerry Rockwood Edgar Allan Poe: A Condition of Shadows 

Jose Franco, classical guitarist

Keith Berger Mime on Campus

Keith Stroup

Carl Rowan

Tom Jackson

Trapezoid

B.F. Maiz May I Poet With You?

Charlie & Company, A New Musical Based on the Life and Times of Charlie Chaplin

David Frye, comedian

St. Louis Jazz Quartet w/Jeanne Trevor

Harry Chapin

Slovenian Symphony Orchestra

Dr. Alvin Poussaint

Bobby Goldsboro

John Chappell in Mark Twain on Stage

Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis, An Evening of Black America

Sam J. Ervin, Jr., Former U.S. Senator & Chairman of Watergate Commission

National Ballet of Flanders

The Four Freshmen

Dave Brubeck in Concert

Washington Woodwind and Saxophone Quartet                                             

John Chappell Clarence Darrow, Defender of the Damned

Duane Hanson

Jesse Owens

Frederick Storaska

Maryland Dance Theatre

The Next Move Theatre

Kreskin

Duquesne University Tamburitzans

Ray Boston

David Toma

 

1980-89

Benjamin Hooks

PDQ Bach/Peter Schickele   

Connecticut Modern Dance Theatre of Performing Arts

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Robert Klein

Wendell Castle  

Oscar Brown Jr. Kicks and Company   

Coretta Scott King

Jerry Rockwood A Condition of Shadow

Susan and Steve Kemenyffy

Duane Locke, poet

Kazoophony

George Plimpton

Edwin Newman

Jack Daniels Silver Cornet Band

Marriage of Figaro

The Amazing Kreskin

Maya Angelou

Linden Windwood Quintet

Douglas Edwards, journalist and broadcaster

Steve Landesberg, comedian

Magda Saleh, Egyptian Dance and Culture

Maynard Holbrook Jackson

Vincent Price

Richard McLean

Arthur Miller

Gary Snyder

Dinner-Theater Same Time Next Year

Maryland Dance Theater

Michael Harrington

The Brass Band

Leslie Burrs

Charles Kuralt

Daedalus Productions For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf

Duquesne University Tamburitzans

James Morris of the Metropolitan Opera

Robert Muller, Vietnam Veterans of America President

Dick Flavin, Political and Social Satirist

Ambassador Ralph Earle II, Chief Negotiator of Salt II Treaty

David Brown, The Cousteau Society Overview 

NYC Tapworks 

The New York City Swing Band 

Maya Angelou

Tim Settimi, mime/musician/comedian 

The New York Harp Ensemble

The Baltimore Consort 

Dr. Isidor Saslav, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster, Latest Discoveries in the String Quartets of Joseph Haydn

Minnesota Jazz Dance 

One Mo’Time

Theatre Mask Ensemble

Betty LaDuke Women, Art and Social Change in Latin America

Betty LaDuke Exhibition Opening: Paintings & Prints

Ira Stein and Russel Walder

The Chinese Magic Revue

John Barth The Sot-Weed Factor Revisited

Dallas Brass

Nikki Giovanni 

Robert Basell How the News Media Covers Major Events  

James Reston Religion in the Twenty-First Century

Harvi Griffin, pop harpist and singer

John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band

Gene Cotton

Louie Bellson Big Band

Woody Herman’s Young Thundering Herd  

 

1990-99

George Carlin

Neil Sheehan, Pulitzer Prize Winner  

Russian Folk Ensemble Tziganka

A Winter Solstice Concert featuring Liz Story, Modern Mandolin Quartet and Michael Manring

Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble

Theatre of Voices

Barnum The Three-Ring Circus Musical

Beijing Song and Dance Ensemble with the China Acrobatic and Magic Troupe

Ballet Gran Folklorico de Mexico

An Evening with Jim Chappell

The Boys Choir of Harlem

Zoppe Circus Europa

A Winter Solstice featuring Nightnoise, Liz Story, Alex De Grassi and Joel DiBartolo

The Moscow Boys Choir

The Berlin Chamber Orchestra

Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble

Zivili

National Theatre of the Deaf in The Italian Straw Hat

The Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh in Madame Butterfly

Nightnoise

Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee

National Band of New Zealand and the Aotearoa Maori Group

Dance Alloy

Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble

Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club As You Like It

Massenkoff Russian Folk Festival

David Burgess

Modern Mandolin Quartet

Dance Alloy The Crossings Project

Opera Northeast H.M.S. Pinafore

Squonk Opera's BigSmorgasbordWunderWerk

Shangri La Chinese Acrobats

Vivaldi Orchestra of Moscow featuring Svetlana Bedordnaya

Dance Alloy A Centennial Celebration (commissioned work)

David Buechner

The David Grisman Quintet

Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group

Bay Street Brassworks

FootWorks Percussive Dance Ensemble

Razumovsky String Quartet

Aquila Theatre Company in The Comedy of Errors

Chatham Baroque

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Nancy Stagnitta & Sonja Inglefield

Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble

Michael Avagliano

Ballet Florida in Peter and the Wolf and A Midsummer Night's Dream

Windwood Theatrical Company Hello Dolly

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana

Celtic Rhythm

Cashore Marionettes

Moscow Chamber Orchestra

Viva Quetzal!

Elena Martin & Jose Meliton

 

2000-09

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

Mapapa African Acrobats

An Evening with Don McLean

Chamber Orchestra Kremlin

Christmas from Dublin with the Three Irish Tenors

Windwood Theatrical Company Crazy for You

Ethos Percussion Group

Brazilian Guitar Quarter featuring Paul Galbraith

Snoopy - The Musical

The Massenkoff Russian Folk Festival

Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band

America

International Ballet Theatre The Nutcracker (2001 & 2002)

Christmas from Dublin with Three Irish Tenors

Windwood Theatrical Company Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Mystical Arts of Tibet

Philadanco

John Astin in Edgar Allan Poe - Once Upon a Midnight

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Pops! Bravo Broadway! with Jan Horvath, Doug LaBrecque and Ron Raines

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company

Collin Raye and Chad Brock

International Ballet Theatre The Nutcracker

Windwood Theatrical Company in Barry Manilow's Copa Cabana

Jack Klugman in On Golden Pond

The Vienna Choir Boys

The Brubeck Brothers Quartet

Stirrings with Dance Alloy (commissioned work)

Steve Reid's Dreamscapes

Bonnie Rideout Scottish Trio

Box of Light Theatre in Peter Pan

REO Speedwagon

Herbie Hancock Quartet

Christmas from Dublin featuring Three Irish Tenors

Windwood Theatrical Company The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Gregory Popovich's Comedy & Pet Theatre

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Music of the Canvas, Art by Music with Nicholas Kendall

Aquila Theatre Company in Othello

Dan Kamin's Comedy In Motion

The Capitol Steps

An Evening with The Yellowjackets

Tom Chapin

Maryland Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Kendall

The Doobie Brothers

Aquila Theatre Company in H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man

The David Sanchez Group

A Winter’s Eve

Enchantment Theatre Company Beauty and the Beast

Windwood Theatrical Company Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom

Gregory Popovich's Comedy and Pet Theatre

DaPonte String Quartet

The Hilton Ruiz/Dave Valentin Latin Jazz Ensemble

Carmina Burana with Leah Stein Dance Company and FSU Department of Music (commissioned work)

TheatreworksUSA Corduroy

John Fedchock NY Sextet

Circus Nexus

Maryland Symphony Orchestra with Rachel Barton Pine

38 Special and Eddie Money

Children's Letters to God

T.S. Monk

Vienna Choir Boys Christmas in Vienna

Windwood Theatrical Company Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

David Leonhard Jazz Group

Aquila Theatre Company Hamlet

Andes Manda

Body Vox

Chris Vadala

Simple Gifts

Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway

Appalachian Festival Headliner: Liz Carroll & John Doyle & Friends

Spencer's Theatre of Illusion

Maryland Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Kendall

The Roots

Aquila Theatre Company Romeo & Juliet

Rachel Price

Three Irish Tenors

Moscow Symphony Orchestra

George Winston

Windwood Theatrical Company Urban Cowboy

TheatreworksUSA Ramona Quimby

The Capitol Quartet

Jeffrey Gaines

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Cashore Marionettes Simple Gifts and Life in Motion

Goo Goo Dolls

Mike Tomaro

Los Folkloristas

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Neil Berg's 101 Years of Broadway

Nnenna Freelon & Count Basie Orchestra

Cirque Le Masque

Maryland Symphony Orchestra with Rachel Barton Pine

North American Festival of Traditional Arts

TheatreworksUSA If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Martha Graham Dance Company

Vivici presents Purely Christmas

Windwood Theatrical Company Little Women

Morgan State University Choir

Terell Stafford Quintet

Aquila Theatre Company Julius Caesar

Borealis Wind Quintet

Third Eye Blind

Jason Moran and the Bandwagon

Jim Breuer

Forbidden Broadway (Special Victims Unit)

David Parker

Barrage High Strung

Capitol Steps

Kathy Mattea Moving Mountains

Jimmy Heath Quartet

Tomáseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas

Windwood Theatrical Company Bye, Bye Birdie 

Esperanza Spalding

TheatreworksUSA Seussical 

George Winston

Boys like Girls/Vedera

The Acting Company Henry V

Ensemble Galilei & Neal Conan Universe of Dreams

Jean Ritchie & Sons

Waterstreet

Regina Carter Quintet Reverse Thread

Greg Kennedy Innovative Juggler

Sara Evans

Maryland Symphony Orchestra with Elena Urioste

Thank You, Gregory! A Tribute to Gregory Hines

Montana Repertory Theatre To Kill A Mockingbird

American Stars Concert for the Holidays

 

2010-2019

Windwood Theatrical Company Cabaret

Esperanza Spalding

DRUID: Featuring Three Irish Tenors

STREB: RAW

Paquito D'Rivera & the Funk Tango Quintet

Stephen Lynch

Boyce Avenue

Step Afrika!

Direct from RENT Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp

RIOULT - The Ravel Project

Ball in the House

Lifehouse

Maryland Symphony Orchestra with Angela Cheng

Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company

Kathy Mattea Songs and the Season

Spyro Gyra

Windwood Theatrical Company The Music Man

Walnut Street Theatre The Glass Menagerie

Celtic Crossroads

Jon Spellman Digging into Shakespeare

Javon Jackson Band

Jungle Joe’s Wildlife Adventure

Ken Waldman

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Verdi's Requiem

Squonk Opera Astro-Rama

Bettye LaVette

Chinese Acrobats of Hebei

SFJAZZ Collective The Music of Stevie Wonder

Paul Taylor Dance Company

Compagnia Flamenco José Porcel Gypsy Fire

Tomáseen Foley's A Celtic Christmas

René Marie Black Lace Freudian Slip

John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean

Women of Ireland

Ravi Coltrane Quartet

Red Baraat

Kathy Mattea Calling Me Home

American Stars in Concert Celebrate Motown

Windwood Theatrical Company Titanic, The Musical

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Famous Last Words with Zuill Bailey

The Capitol Steps

John Hammond

The von Trapp Children

Sandra Bernhard

Lula Washington Dance Theatre

MATHEMAGIC! starring Bradley Fields

Luciana Souza and Romero Lubambo Brazilian Duos

The Three Phantoms in Concert

Rennie Harris RHAW Love! American Style

Appalachian Festival Capstone Concert: Sean Keane with Al Petteway & Amy White From Ireland to Appalachia

Maryland Symphony Orchestra with Time for Three

Pedrito Martinez Group

Julie Fowlis: Music of the Scottish Isles

Catherine Russell

Vienna Choir Boys

Walnut Street Theatre Driving Miss Daisy

The Math Maniac Show with Max Millions

Broadway's Next H!T Musical

Spanish Harlem Orchestra

Robin Spielberg

Appalachian Festival Capstone Concert: Molly Mason & Jay Unger Band

Maryland Symphony Orchestra with Christina and Michelle Naughton

Firefall

Jim Brickman The Platinum Tour Celebrating 20 Years

TheatreworksUSA Charlotte's Web

Reduced Shakespeare Company The Ultimate Christmas Show

Chris Brubeck's Triple Play

Russian National Ballet Theatre Swan Lake

Cristina Pato and the Migrations Band

Montana Repertory Theatre The Great Gatsby

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Broadway Nights, Broadway Today

Music from the Crooked Road Sandy Shortridge/Whitetop Mountain Band/Adam McPeak & Mountain Thunder

Appalachian Festival Capstone Concert: Jayme Stone's Lomax Project

Kellylee Evans

Maryland Symphony Orchestra with Francisco Fullana

DAUGHTRY with Honor By August

Bollywood Masala Orchestra and Dancers of India The Spirit of India

FSU Theatre Junie B. Jones

Indian Ink Theatre Company The Elephant Wrestler

OVEOUS Poetry and Music

De Temps Antan

Becca Stevens Band

Barter Players Frosty

Well-Strung

Flashdance - The Musical

Moscow Festival Ballet The Sleeping Beauty

Zuzu African Acrobats

The Hot Sardines

Cover Drive

The Midtown Men

Troker

New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players I’ve Got a Little Twist

Chris Tucker

The Capitol Steps

FSU Theatre James and the Giant Peach

Molodi Live

Gravity and Other Myths A Simple Space

Windham Hill A Winter Solstice Concert

Cyrille Aimée

Daniel Davis

The Tibetan Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery The Mystical Arts of Tibet (residency)

Brock McGuire Band

The Filharmonic

Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio

Maryland Symphony Orchestra A Fifth of Beethoven with Yuliya Gorenman

Mutts Gone Nuts

Tango Buenos Aires The Spirit of Argentina

The Kelly Bell Band

Russian String Orchestra

ArtsPower’s From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

The Martial Artists and Acrobats of Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Christmas with the Annie Moses Band

Best of Acrobats of Cirque-tacular

Qurrat Ann Kadwani They Call Me Q

Joan Soriano

Danú

Mummenschanz

Risa Binder

Etienne Charles Creole Soul

Daymé Arocena

Moscow Festival Ballet Cinderella

Appalachian Festival Capstone Concert: Kaia Kater with Anna & Elizabeth

An Evening with LeAnn Rimes

CATAPULT The Amazing Magic of Shadow Dance

Jeff Coffin and Roy “Futureman” Wooten

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Immortal Mozart + Schubert’s Fifth Symphony

1st Project

Carol of the King: The Irish Dance Christmas Spectacular

René Marie Experiment in Truth

Songs of Ireland A Celtic Celebration

Russian National Ballet Giselle

Banda Magda

Six Appeal

Christian Sands Trio

Johnny Peers & the Muttville Comix

Appalachian Festival Capstone Concert: Dom Flemons

Malamanya

Cirque Mei

An Evening with Jo Dee Messina

Derek Brown, Beatbox Saxophone

Maryland Symphony Orchestra The American Symphony

Terry Barber Christmas Presence

 

2020-present

Thomas Pandolfi Into the Night with Gershwin

Crys Matthews

Cirque FLIP Fabrique presents BLIZZARD

Russian National Ballet Don Quixote

Appalachian Festival: Kyshona We the People: Voices for Change (virtual)

Maryland Symphony Orchestra String Quartet (virtual)

FSU Theatre and Dance Charlotte’s Web (virtual)

FSU Theatre and Dance Social Media Massacre (virtual)

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Shostakovich Piano Concerto no. 1 (virtual)

National Geographic Live Scientific Exposure (virtual)

National Geographic Live Reimagining Dinosaurs (virtual)

FSU Theatre and Dance Lessons from Baldpate (virtual)

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Classical Prodigies (virtual)

National Geographic Live Feats of Filmmaking (virtual)

Greg Latta A Celtic Celebration (virtual)

National Geographic Live Mysterious Seas (virtual)

FSU Theatre and Dance Spoon River Project (virtual)

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Live with Sharon Isbin (virtual)

National Geographic Live Women and Migration (virtual)

Step Afrika! Celebration (virtual)

Step Afrika! dance tutorial (virtual)

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Bravo Broadway (virtual)

Virginia Repertory Theatre Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad (virtual)

Carnegie Science Center The Chem-Mystery Files (virtual)

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Brown and Beethoven (virtual)

Appalachian Festival Capstone Concert: The Honey Dewdrops

reVoiced

Dueling Pianos

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Transformations: Beethoven, Brown and Prokofiev

Ak Dan Gwang Chil Korean Shamanic Folk-pop

Dailey & Vincent Christmas Tour

Alicia Olatuja Intuition: Songs from the Minds of Women

Greg Latta A Celtic Celebration (virtual)

Velocity Irish Dance

Acrobuffos Air Play

Appalachian Festival Capstone Concert: The Karan Casey Trio

Mariachi Herencia de México with Lupita Infante

TAKE3

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Mozart, Stravinsky and von Weber

Christmas with the Annie Moses Band

Trick of the Light Theatre The Griegol

The Brubeck Brothers Quartet Celebrates Dave Brubeck’s Centennial

Cirque Kalabanté performing Afrique En Cirque

Appalachian Festival Capstone Concert: Martha Redbone Roots Project

Family Weekend: Step Afrika!

Bill Miller

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Farrenc

Tomáseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas

Hot Club of Baltimore featuring Amanda Jones

Indian Ink Theatre Mrs. Krishnan’s Kitchen

Cirque FLIP Fabrique BLIZZARD

Trailblazing Women of Country A Tribute to Patsy, Loretta and Dolly

 

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