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 are contemporary Chinese theater, cross-cultural exchange and performance, Asian American theatre, translation, and sport as...
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,...
Mark David Buckles is a conductor, composer, singer, music educator, multi-instrumentalist, and worship leader.
Mark's many roles include serving as the Director of Music at Arlington Street Church in Boston, Music Director of The Sanctuary Boston, and as a Lecturer and Affiliated Artist of Music...
Karen Harvey enjoys a multi-faceted career as an accomplished pianist, composer and conductor. She is a two-time recipient of fellowships to the Tanglewood Music Center, and has been a featured soloist with numerous New England orchestras. While a member of the Griffin Music Ensemble, Ms. Harvey...
Infinite Record, The third installment of an international conference devoted to the continuous and living archive was organized by Anna Kohler and Jay Scheib, MIT Music and Theater Arts, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and convened by Østfold University College / Norwegian Theater...
Acclaimed as an “estimable pianist” and “sensitive partner” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), Eileen Huang is a frequent collaborator with the Boston-area’s finest instrumentalists and vocalists. Her performance with Boston Symphony Orchestra principal bassist Edwin Barker and violinist Yevgeny Kutik...
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...