Requiem for Orlando

“Requiem for Orlando,” a community concert of Mozart’s Requiem, will be performed to honor the victims of the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL.The concert was organized by Austin Stewart (BM ’09, voice), a current musicology graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD), and Kevin Fitzgerald, an alumnus of the school (MM ’15, orchestral conducting) who will conduct the concert.

Through a social media and email campaign they launched on Sunday, Stewart and Fitzgerald were able to bring together 50 instrumentalists and more than 135 singers to participate in the concert. The performers include SMTD students, faculty and alumni, as well as representatives of many local orchestras, such as the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Rochester Hills symphonies, and the Michigan Philharmonic.