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...
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, Associate Professor of Music, Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001, is an ethnomusicologist specializing in West African music. She is the author of Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Senegal (Temple University Press, 2007), and the faculty advisor to Rambax, MIT's...
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...