Presented by the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study Solo Recital Series
Program
TBD
Livestream: https://mta.mit.edu/viewlisten/live-killian-hall
About the Performers
Holden Mui is a fourth-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, MIT Symphony Orchestra as a violist, conducting, and composition. 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 2022 Jack and Edith Ruina Award and 2024 Philip Loew Memorial 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
Support for private musical study is available for students through the Emerson/Harris Program (E/HP), which offers merit-based financial awards for outstanding achievement on instruments or voice in classical, jazz, or world music. Each academic year, the program awards Scholarships and Fellowships to nearly seventy students who commit to a full year’s study and participate in the musical life of MIT.
Auditions for the program are held at the beginning of each academic year. Private teacher selections, made in consultation with the E/HP jury heads, may include instructors from MIT staff and throughout Greater Boston. The Emerson/Harris Program is funded by the late Mr. Cherry L. Emerson, Jr. (SM, 1941), in response to an appeal from AssociateProvost Ellen T. Harris (Class of 1949 Professor Emeritus of Music). The Emerson/Harris Masterclass Series is supported, in part, by the Robert L. Malster (1956) Fund.
