Presented by the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study Solo Recital Series
Program
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About the Performers
Holden Mui is a third-year undergraduate at MIT studying mathematics and music. He currently studies piano with Timothy McFarland through the MIT Emerson/Harris Fellowship Program, and previously studied with Kate Nir and Matthew Hagle of the Music Institute of Chicago. He started piano at the age of five and his favorite composer is Ravel.
As a music student at MIT, Holden is actively involved in piano performance, chamber music, collaborative piano, MITSO as a violist, conducting, and composition. In the past, he won both the junior and senior Music Teachers’ National Association’s national division composition competitions, the Illinois Music Education Association small ensemble and large ensemble composition competitions, and was a finalist at the New Music on the Bluff Festival in 2021. He also won the primary, junior, and intermediate divisions of the Society of American Musicians Piano Competition, the 2023 MIT concerto competition, and was a recipient of the 2021 Jack and Edith Ruina Scholarship Award.
Holden enjoys composing music and writing olympiad math problems in his spare time, and his favorite animal is a turtle.
About the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study
Funded by the late Mr. Cherry L. Emerson, Jr. (SM, 1941) in response to an appeal from Associate Provost Ellen T. Harris (Class of 1949 Professor Emeritus of Music), the Emerson/Harris Program offers merit-based financial awards for private study in music to students of outstanding achievement on their instruments in classical, jazz or world music. Each academic year, the Emerson/Harris Program awards Scholarships and Fellowships to nearly fifty students who commit to a full year’s study and participate in the musical life of MIT. Private teacher selections, made in consultation with the music faculty, may include instructors from MIT staff and throughout Greater Boston.
