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...
Eileen Huang enjoys a career as a collaborative pianist and vocal coach, garnering critical praise for her 2016 Rockport Chamber Music Festival debut alongside Boston Symphony Orchestra principal bass Edwin Barker and violinist Yevgeny Kutik. Ms. Huang is a rehearsal pianist for the Boston Symphony...
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...
Israeli musician Florie Namir is a classical composer, songwriter and performer. She earned her B.Mus from Tel Aviv University and M.M. from Rice University. Winner of the John H. Rauch Composition Competition and recipient of Diploma D’onore from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Italy. An invited...
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...
With work described as “sumptuously scored and full of soaring melodies” (The New York Times), and “unspeakably gorgeous” (Gramophone), American composer Elena Ruehr is known for her lyrical and rhythmically vibrant music. Her music has an organic, breathing flow, derived from its origin in the...
Garo Saraydarian teaches the musicianship labs 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 of...
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 founder and co-director of Rambax, MIT'...