Elena Ruehr says of her music “the idea is that the surface be simple, the structure complex.”
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 (Arsis Records), her cantatas Averno (with the Trinity...
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 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...
Lamine Touré, director of Rambax, comes from a long line of griots, a caste of musicians and oral historians among the Wolof people of Senegal. Born into a family of sabar drummers, Lamine has been drumming and dancing since the age of four. He is one of Senegal’s leading percussionists. Touré...
Peter Whincop, Lecturer, is a composer of electronic compositions, live improvisations, and installations with a highly idiosyncratic, original, and multi-modal approach to sound design. Individual, musical, smart and tactile, Peter’s music, like his teaching, stem from a love of sound and sonic...
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 and Artistic Director of Gamelan Galak Tika, and curator...
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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Ellen T. Harris (eharris@mit.edu) B.A. ’67 Brown University; M.A. ’70, Ph.D. ’76 University of Chicago, Class of 1949 Professor Emeritus at MIT is a musicologist whose work focuses on Handel, Baroque opera, and vocal performance practice. She is currently President of the American Musicological...