FiLmprov Cha Cha Cha! The art of filmmaker Kate Matson screened with improvised score by Mark Harvey, trumpet, music director; Peter Bloom, Phil Scarf, Dan Zupan, woodwinds; Bill Lowe, trombone, tuba; John Funkhouser, piano, bass; Jerry Leake, percussion.
Also featuring the premiere of a new...
The Boston Camerata, Anne Azéma, artistic director
Delving deep into the early music repertory, the esteemed Boston Camerata – celebrating its 60th season – enlivens an important chapter of cultural history: the competing centers of France and Italy in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance....
Visiting Artist Concert: The Boston Camerata, Anne Azéma, artistic director. Of All the Flowers; Song of the Middle Ages. Machaut, Landini, da Bologna, and others, performed by Camerata's virtuoso soloists and instrumentalists. Delving deep into the early music repertory, the esteemed Boston...
Celebrating Latin Jazz and Beyond. MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Jr., music director. Mark Harvey, guest composer-conductor, Sam Fomon '15, guest vocalist. Featuring first performances of original compositions and arrangements by FJE members and the music of Gillespie, Harvey,...
MIT Wind Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Jr., music director, Jamshied Sharifi, ’83, guest composer, MITWE alumni, guest performers, featuring Sharifi’s Awakening, composed for MITWE in 2012. MITWE’s premiere of this piece is the subject of the 2014 Emmy-winning documentary “Awakening: Evoking the...
MIT Symphony Orchestra, Adam K. Boyles, director.
The program will include a performance of Schumann, Piano Concerto, Movt. 1 by pianist Sarah Rumbley (G)
winner fot he 2015 MITSO Concerto Competition. Also on the program is Mahler, Symphony No. 4 with guest conductor Prof. Kevin Noe, and soprano...
Lontano Ensemble: Rowland Sutherland, flute; Peter Furniss, clarinet; Caroline Balding, violin; Clare O'Connell, cello; Mary Dullea, piano; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor. Music by MIT composers: Peter Child, Seeing the Unseen for ensemble and video; John Harbison, Chaconne; Keeril Makan,...
Ellipsis Trio, one of New England’s premier piano trios, will be performing works by Ives, Foote, and Iwanek on Saturday, March 21 at MIT’s Killian Hall. The concert program is Charles Ives’ Piano Trio, Arthur Foote’s Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 5, in C minor, and a new piece for piano trio by Polish-...
Advanced Music Performance Student Recital. MIT Emerson Fellow: June Park ‘16, violin. Bach, Partita in D minor for solo violin BWV 1004; Brahms, Violin Sonata No.2 in A major, Op.100; Prokofiev, Five Melodies Op.35; Bartok, Romanian Folk Dances. 5:15pm, Killian Hall. Free.
Primacy of the Ear. A jazz concert in honor of the legendary pianist-composer-educator Ran Blake who will be turning 80 in August. The program will feature Blake's music and musical influences including the world premiere of a piece by John Harbison in tribute to Blake, surprise guests, and more....
