Presented by the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study Solo Recital Series
Livestream: https://mta.mit.edu/viewlisten/live-killian-hall
About the Performers
Lani Lee is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering researching cell mechanics in the group of Prof. Ming Guo. She has studied with Dr. Kerry Deal in the MIT Emerson/Harris Program since starting graduate school. As an Emerson/Harris Fellow, she presented a solo recital of art songs by Falla, Brahms, Fauré, Hahn, and Vaughan Williams. She minored in Music as an undergraduate at MIT. In her first year, she discovered her love of singing with Concert Choir and served as an officer for many years. She was featured as a soloist for J.S. Bach’s Magnificat and Beethoven’s Mass in C Major with Concert Choir, as well as J.S. Bach’s Lutheran Mass in A Major, BWV 234, and Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 with Chamber Chorus. She is also the winner of the John Oliver Choral Award in 2022. Outside of MIT, she sings with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the mixed-voice symphonic choir of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops, and writes occasional concert critique pieces for the Boston Classical Review.
Lani has also enjoyed exploring music with other amazing opportunities on campus, such as Chamber Music Society, Collaborative Piano, Rambax (Senegalese Drum Ensemble), Ribotones, Next Act, and Musical Theatre Guild. With the thriving music community at MIT, she helped present CAMIT-funded concert performances with Pocket Opera Productions, where she sang the roles of Tisbe in Rossini’s La Cenerentola and Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto. Outside of music, she enjoys hiking, activities involving water in any state of matter (SCUBA, sailing, ice skating, skiing), maintaining her various fermented goods (kimchi, kombucha, sourdough), and food (baking, cooking, eating).
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.
