Malinda J. McPherson, 23, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University, and an MPhil in Music and Science from the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, Malinda was a member of Churchill College, and was a Churchill Scholar. Malinda is currently a PhD student in the...
Amadou Lamine Touré comes from a long line of griots, a caste of musicians and oral historians among the Wolof people of Senegal. Founded by griot percussionist Lamine Touré, Group Saloum fuses Senegalese mbalax with elements of jazz, funk, reggae, and Afrobeat. The group performs original mbalax...
FiLmprov, the union of animated film and improvisation with Kate Matson and Mark Harvey, Senior Lecturer in Music and Theater Arts. Filmprov presents LOOK and LISTEN, a new film by animator/artist Kate Matson and live soundtrack by the FiLmprov Ensemble: Rob Bethel, cello; Peter Bloom, Phil Scarff...
MIT’s annual event honoring Boston jazz legend and MIT’s “Father of Jazz,” Herb Pomeroy. MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director. Special Guests: Mark Harvey (composer, conductor, trumpet) and Arni Cheatham, saxophone and Cory Pesaturo, accordion. Music by Charlie Parker,...
Emerson Instructor Yukiko Sekino will present a piano recital featuring:
Haydn, Sonata in A Major, Hob. XVI/12
Rachmaninoff, Elégie, Op. 3, No. 1 and Etude-Tableau in E-flat Minor, Op. 39, No. 5
Dai Fujikura, Piano Studies Nos. 1 and 2
Chopin, Four Ballades
About the pianist
Praised for her “...
Writing for the 21st-Century Wind Ensemble, Embracing 15th-Century Contrapuntal Techniques by MIT Lecturer Kathryn Salfelder.
About the Composer
Kathryn Salfelder has written works for the Albany Symphony, Boston Musica Viva, United States Air Force Band – Washington D.C., American Bandmasters...
To the Light, To the Flame by MIT Wind Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director, Kenneth Amis, Assistant Conductor. With guest composers Kathryn Salfelder & Jamshied Sharifi. The concert features the world premiere of Sharifi’s To The Light, To the Flame; Salfelder, Shadows Ablaze;...
On this first concert of the spring semester, the MIT Symphony Orchestra will perform Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3 under the baton of Adam K. Boyles, music director. In addition, the concert will feature two winners of the 2016 MITSO Concerto Competition: Pianist Sylvain Carpentier (G) will...
The Ellipsis Trio concert is cancelled.
It will be rescheduled at a later date TBD. Amanda Wang ‘03, violinist, Patrick Owen, cellist, and Konstantinos Papadakis, pianist, the Ellipsis Trio, will perform the World premiere of William Thomas McKinley's Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano in 5...
This Advanced Music Performance Piano Recital by Daniel Manesh will feature Debussy, Préludes, Book II and Prokofiev, Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 82.
