These are artists visiting MIT Music and Theater Arts this academic year. They were invited to perform and interact with MIT students, faculty, and staff during their visits. Some will teach and visit various music classes. Visiting Artists are made possible in part by the Center for Art, Science...
Christopher Alan Adler '94
Christopher Alan Adler, MIT BS Math (18), BS Music (21M) is a composer, improviser and pianist. While at MIT he received the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, the Gregory Tucker Memorial Prize, and a Ragnar and Margaret Naess Music Scholarship. He later obtained an AM and...
Research is the act of discovering and creating knowledge. In Music and Theater Arts at MIT, research takes place through uncovering the history of music and musical cultures, directing shows, performing and interpreting music, acting, planning and building sets, or designing new technologies for...
Music Program Overview
The music program welcomes all enrolled MIT students, regardless of major, who wish to take subjects in music history/culture, composition/theory, music technology, and performance in the areas of classical, jazz, popular, and world music. At MIT it is possible to major (...
The composition curriculum helps student composers develop their skills regardless of prior experience. Students can receive compositional training and performances in a wide variety of genres, from the avant-garde to classical tonality, from jazz arranging to electronic music. Advanced students...
Music History and Culture
The music history and culture classes lay the foundations for understanding how music has been created, performed, and heard over time and across civilizations. The subjects range from broad overviews of western and non-western music to smaller, more specialized...
The music performance program offers all MIT students (graduate and undergraduate) vocal and instrumental options in the areas of classical, jazz and world music. These include MIT Symphony Orchestra, MIT Wind Ensemble, MIT Chamber Chorus, MIT Concert Choir, the Festival Jazz Ensemble, a...
The Music Program offers a broad range of opportunities to experience and engage critically with all areas of music. Introductory classes (21M.0XX) assume no previous knowledge of reading or performing music, but all with the exception of Fundamentals of Music (21M.051) are appropriate for...
Theater Program Overview
The program in Theater Arts at MIT invites students to explore theater as a contemporary artistic practice within an intellectually rich continuum of traditions in the performing arts.
We engage the performing arts as a mode of inquiry into self and society with the...
MTA Spaces
Theater Arts | Classrooms | ASA Groups Classroom Access | Practice Rooms | Killian Hall | Lewis Music Library
Theater Arts
As of the Fall of 2017, the Theater Arts program has moved to its new home in W97.
This newly completed space brings the energy and spirit of the Program in...
