October 2021
Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Wind Ensemble
The Tufts University Sunday Concert Series continues with a performance by the Tufts Wind Ensemble titled "Out From Under Our Rock." Directed by John McCann, the Wind Ensemble returns to wind band literature after 20 months with a program inspired by the transition from darkness into the light. Featured composers include Russell Peck, David Maslanka and Eric Whitacre. Due to COVID regulations, live audiences at Tufts Music events are restricted to individuals with a Tufts ID only who have filled…
Find out more »Ludovico Ensemble: Younghi Pagh-Paan Portrait Concert
The Tufts University Department of Music presents the Ludovico Ensemble in a concert of Younghi Pagh-Paan’s chamber works. Although Pagh-Paan (b. 1945) is one of the most celebrated composers of her generation, her music is seldomly presented outside of her native South Korea or her professional home base of Germany. While she is one of the most frequently performed composers at the "Darmstädter Ferienkurse" as well as the "Donaueschinger Musiktage," a perusal of her performance history yields only a single…
Find out more »Granoff Colloquium: Listening to Ballet
This month's Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University will feature Maeve Sterbenz, assistant professor of Music at Smith College, presenting the program "Listening to Ballet." Sterbenz will speak about a contemporary ballet called Seven Sonatas, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky to keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. In connection with this piece, the talk will consider how ballet can serve as a lens for music analysis—particularly, as a source of physical and affective attributes that listeners can project onto sounds and…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Octave of Light
More than 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered . . . are any home to life? Composer David Ibbett explores this crucial question in his debut album, "Octave of Light," featured in today's Tufts Sunday Concert Series program. Featuring soprano Beth Sterling, violinist Sophie Wang, and the composer on piano/electronics. This unique project is a musical celebration of exoplanet science, created in collaboration with Roy Gould of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Due to COVID regulations, live audiences at Tufts Music…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Classical Percussion
Today's Tufts Sunday Concert features percussionist Timur Rubinshteyn performing Virtuosic Favorites for Classical Percussion — music for marimba, timpani, xylophone, and multi-percussion. From Bach to composers of the 20th century, enjoy some of Timur's favorite selections in contrasting moods. Due to COVID regulations, live audiences at Tufts Music events are restricted to individuals with a Tufts ID only who have filled out the university's Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. For others, the event will be live streamed through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »November 2021
Tufts Composers: New Sounds Now #3
Tufts Composers present session #3 in a series of performances of new works from the Music 118 Contemporary Composition class. Works by students and faculty will be performed by students, faculty, staff, and guests. Today, enjoy flute music and more by guest composers TJ Anderson and Simon Henry Berry, alongside new Tufts Composers creations. Due to COVID regulations, live audiences at Tufts Music events are restricted to individuals with a Tufts ID only who have filled out the Daily COVID-19…
Find out more »Kalos Trio
The Tufts University Department of Music presents the Kalos Trio performing traditional Celtic music, framed anew. Ryan McKasson, Jeremiah McLane and Eric McDonald are masters of tradition who join forces for a program of Celtic and Scandinavian repertory, as well as their own original music. Their individual artistry on fiddle, accordion, guitar and vocals creates music that traverses darkness and light—simultaneously energetic, sublime, pensive, spontaneous and jubilant. This concert is made possible by the Granoff Music Fund. Due to COVID regulations,…
Find out more »Tufts/NEC Dual Degree Concert
Students from Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music studying in this program present their musical passions in a unique evening of classical, jazz, and original compositions. Due to COVID regulations, live audiences at Tufts Music events are restricted to individuals with a Tufts ID only who have filled out the university's Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. For others, the event will be live streamed through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Bach and the Early 20th Century
Today's Tufts Sunday Concert features pianist Andrew Rangell playing works by Webern, Berg, Scriabin and others, interspersed with preludes and fugues from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2. Due to COVID regulations, live audiences at Tufts Music events are restricted to individuals with a Tufts ID only who have filled out the university's Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. For others, the event will be live streamed through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir
Tufts University's Third Day Gospel Choir presents its fall concert under the direction of David Coleman. Due to COVID regulations, live audiences at Tufts Music events are restricted to individuals with a Tufts ID only who have filled out the university's Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. For others, the event will be live streamed through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
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