Bassist Keala Kaumeheiwa was born in Oswego, New York and was raised in Marquette, Michigan. He received a Bachelor's of Music Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied both jazz and classical music with renowned bassist Richard Davis. From Wisconsin, Keala moved to New York...
Jean Rife, Lecturer, B.M., Oberlin Conservatory of Music; M.A., Harvard University, coaches ensembles in the MIT Chamber Music Society and holds woodwind and brass sectionals for the MIT Symphony. As a horn soloist, she received First prize at the Heldenleben International Horn Competition. Ms....
George Ruckert, Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Music. MA, Music Theory and Composition, Queens College; Gayan Vadya Bid, Ali Akbar College, Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, UC Berkeley.
Ruckert joined the MIT faculty in 1992, and has taught western music, world music, popular music, music fundamentals, folk...
Elena Ruehr says of her music “the idea is that the surface be simple, the structure complex.”
Currently composer in residence with the Lincoln Symphony, she has a major list of recordings including her orchestral works (O’Keeffe Images, BMOP Sound) as well as the opera Toussaint Before the Spirits...
Garo Saraydarian teaches musicianship and music theory at MIT. He received his M.M. with a concentration in jazz studies from Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory, certification from the Kodaly Music Institute at the New England Conservatory, and a B.A. in music from the University...
Patricia Tang is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Senegalese music. She received her Ph.D. in Music from Harvard University in 2001. Since then, Patty has taught at MIT in the Music & Theater Arts Section, where she is currently Associate Professor of Music, and also serves as the...
Marcus Thompson, violist, has appeared as soloist, recitalist, and in chamber music series throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Far East. He has been a soloist with the orchestras of Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Saint Louis; The National Symphony, the Boston Pops and the Czech National Symphony...
Lamine Touré is Director of Rambax, MIT’s Senegalese Drum Ensemble. He comes from a long line of griots, a caste of musicians and oral historians among the Wolof people of Senegal. Born into a prominent family of sabar drummers, Lamine has been drumming and dancing since the age of four. One of...
Evan Ziporyn is a composer/clarinetist who has forged an international reputation through his genre-defying, cross-cultural works and performances. At MIT he is Inaugural Director of the Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST), founder of Gamelan Galak Tika, and Kenan Sahin Distinguished...
MITHAS presents: Sandhya Manoj, Odissi dancer, and Aishwarya Balasubramanian, Bharatnatyam dancer, in a shared program. 4 pm, Kresge Little Theater. General admission $30. All students free. Visit http://www.mithas.org or contact: mithastimes@gmail.com for final listings as changes may occur.
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