Presented by the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study Solo Recital Series
Program
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About the Performers
Pianist Vikram Sundar is a fourth-year graduate student in the Computational and Systems Biology program at MIT, working with Prof. Kevin Esvelt on machine learning for protein design. He has played piano since the age of 5 and currently studies with Eileen Huang as an Emerson/Harris Scholar. Previously, he took lessons from Erna Gulabyan in California. He prefers Romantic repertoire, and has previously learned and performed virtuosic works by composers including Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff. At MIT, he has participated in the Chamber Music Society for 3 years, performing piano trios by Brahms and Tchaikovsky. This is his third year in the Emerson/Harris Scholarship and his second solo recital; last year, he performed Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.
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.
