Annual Campus Preview Weekend Concert and FAQ session on Music at MIT. Q & A with Dr. Frederick Harris, Jr., MIT’s Director of Wind and Jazz Ensembles at 7pm and 7:30pm concert by the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble and chamber ensembles of the MIT Wind Ensemble. Music by Gounod, Gillespie,...
Composer Vartan Aghababian presents a concert in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the commencement of the Armenian Genocide.
RESILIENCE is a concert of vocal and chamber music by composer Vartan Aghababian presented in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the commencement of The...
Terry Riley, CAST Visiting Artist, returns to MIT for an 80th birthday concert. He will perform solo, with Gamelan Galak-Tika (White Space Conflict), which we commissioned and premiered the last time he was here), and with Eviyan; also the premiere a new arrangement (by Ziporyn) of his classic...
8th Annual Herb Pomeroy Memorial Concert. MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, MIT Alumni Jazz Band, Frederick Harris, Jr., music director. Special guests: French composer-pianist-conductor Magali Souriau, and Argentine trumpeter-composer, Richard Nant. Featuring the music of Souriau (former Pomeroy student...
MIT Chamber Chorus, William Cutter, music director, Karen Harvey, organ, present: Picardy Thirds, 400 years of optimistic cadences. The program will include works of Perotinus, John Dunstable, Josquin des Prez, Claudin de Sermisy, John Dowland, and Schütz, Musikalische Exequien (Funeral music for...
MIT Emerson Fellow: Peter Godart ‘15, piano. Struggle and Reconciliation, a fully improvised concert based on works by Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, and Shostakovitch.
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Moscow-born, New York-based violinist Johnny Gandelsman performed the unaccompanied Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach to a packed house in MIT's Killian Hall on Monday, January 5. Here is a Boston Globe review of the event.
Composer Vartan Aghababian (b. 1964, Detroit, Michigan) began piano studies at the age of eight and soon after started composing. His grammar school years of music study were infused with Orff Schulwerke and Dalcroze Eurhythmics; in the years that followed, his private studies were augmented to...
Claire Conceison (康开丽) is Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture and Professor of Theater Arts. She is a scholar, translator, and director. Her areas of research and teaching include contemporary Chinese theater, contemporary French theater, cross-cultural exchange and performance, Asian American...
Kenneth Amis was born and raised in Bermuda. He began playing the piano at a young age and upon entering high school took up the tuba and developed an interest in performing and writing music. A Suite for Bass Tuba, composed when he was only fifteen, marked his first published work. A year later,...