Sharifi is a composer, musician, and former MIT visiting artist who received a 2018 Tony Award for best orchestrations on the record-breaking Broadway hit “The Band’s Visit.” Sharifi will present current works in a talk with a question and answer session.
Sharifi graduated from MIT with a degree...
Dan VanHassel
VanHassel’s works create an evocative sound world drawing from a background in rock, Indonesian gamelan, free improvisation, and classical music. He has had works performed by ensembles such as the Talea Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex, and Transient Canvas, and been featured at the MATA...
Apollo and Dionysus
Taiwanese composer, pianist and music educator Yi Yiing Chen’s music has been described as “very different, showing the composer’s versatility and breadth of range and influence” and “an exciting amalgam of eastern and western styles.” She also currently teaches and studies at...
IF From the Distance
50th Anniversary Season Premiere featuring John Harbison's new monodrama IF
Saturday, October 20 at 8pm
Kresge Auditorium
$30 General Admission, $20 for Seniors, $10 for Students, Free for MIT students
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In celebration of the start of our 50th...
The two-volume set includes two chapters by MIT Associate Professor of Music, Michael Scott Cuthbert giving a new history of the Trecento: Italian music of the fourteenth (and early fifteenth) century. The first chapter resituates the long-studied secular music of Italy in the context of new...
From the composer of Madame Butterfly and La Bohème, this rarely performed gem tells the story of an unlikely relationship between Magda, a high-society woman and a naïve, handsome poet. But the fate of their courtship is uncertain as Magda is torn between the life she wants and the life she knows...
This one-hour recital will feature original compositions by the Jazz AMP students.
Peter Godart (piano), Talia Khan (voice), Ini Oguntola (clarinet), Alan Osumndson (trumpet), David Su (drums), Tony Terrasa (alto saxophone), Larry Wang (nord)
John Harbison, Instructor
IF From the Distance
50th Anniversary Season Premiere featuring John Harbison's new monodrama IF
Saturday, October 20 at 8pm
Kresge Auditorium
$30 General Admission, $20 for Seniors, $10 for Students, Free for MIT students
Order Tickets
In celebration of the start of our 50th...
