Upcoming Events
New at Noon: Viola and Piano
This Tufts University New at Noon concert features new works by Tufts composers John McDonald, Julia Moss, and many others, performed by guest artists Roselyn Hobbs, viola, and Tae Kim, piano. Free; no tickets required.
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Story of Babar
In this Tufts University Family and Chidren's Concert celebrates "The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant." The classic children's story will be decorated with a colorful piano score by Francis Poulenc. Pianist Andrew Rangell will narrate and perform, adding extemporaneous drawings. Free; no tickets required. This event is part of Tufts Super Arts Saturday, taking place throughout the Granoff Music Center from 1 to 4 p.m.
Find out more »Super Arts Saturday at Tufts
Tufts University invites you to Super Arts Saturday, an arts experience for children designed to inspire creativity and joy in the arts. Children and families are welcome to come to Tufts' arts facilities to attend a performance and a variety of workshops taught by Music, Art, Drama and Dance Department students and faculty. The event will kick off with a 1 p.m. concert in Distler Hall by Andy Rangell as he narrates, performs, and illustrates “Babar the Elephant.” Starting at 2…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Beth Bahia Cohen
This Tufts University Sunday Concert Series, featuring Beth Bahia Cohen and friends, explores the violin and other bowed instrument traditions from Greece, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Morocco and more. With Vasilis Kostas, Mohammed Mejaour, Mimi Rabson, Manos Stratis, Giorgio Albanese and Panagiotis Aivazidis. Free; no tickets required.
Find out more »Granoff Colloquium: Stephan Pennington
The Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series at Tufts University presents Tufts Associate Professor of Music Stephan Pennington on the topic "Boys Don’t Cry: Historical Empathy, Silence, and the Trans Masculine Soundscape." Pennington is a critical musicologist focusing on popular music and cultural studies. He is also affiliated with the Africana Studies Program, the American Studies Program, the Films Studies Program, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. He teaches courses such as History of African-American Music, Queer Pop, The History…
Find out more »Geoff Edgers on Music, Writing and Reporting
Tufts University alumnus and Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers returns to campus to talk about his new book “Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith and the Song that Changed American Music Forever.” He'll discuss the revolutionary song that brought rap into mainstream American culture in the 1980s, how to develop your dream writing gig in the post-print age, and turning your passion for music and culture into a reporting beat. Free; no tickets required Guest parking passes can be purchased at…
Find out more »Mental Health Awareness Concert
Tufts University presents a concert intent on raising sensitivity to mental health in the community. Members will share personal readings emotionally relating to the music. The program features works by Klemmstein, McDonald, and Mendelssohn performed by Emil Altschuler, violin; John McDonald, piano; and others. Free; no tickets required.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Festival of Russian Music
This Tufts University Sunday Concert Series event features the Tufts Russian and Slavic Student Association members performing their spring concert. Free; no tickets required.
Find out more »Micah Huang: Under Our Skins
Tufts University graduate student Micah Huang presents as his Master's Thesis Concert, a mixed-media performance in which speakers tell oral histories related to personal experience with prejudice and stereotypes, while a music ensemble provides a live underscore. The goal of the program is to facilitate deeper understanding within the work and academic community at Tufts. This means that while the performance is open to the public, the real reward will be felt when someone who the speaker interacts with often…
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Kiniwe
Kiniwe, the African music and dance ensemble of the Tufts University Music Department, presents a concert for children and families. Attah Poku directs. Free; no tickets required.
Find out more »Tufts/NEC Dual Degree Concert
Students from Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music studying in this program present a variegated evening of classical, jazz, and original compositions. Free; no tickets required.
Find out more »Tufts Wind Ensemble
The Tufts Wind Ensemble will perform a Tufts Sunday Concert Series program under the direction of John McCann. Free; no tickets required.
Find out more »Granoff Colloquium: Megan Kaes Long
The Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series at Tufts University presents Oberlin College Assistant Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long on the topic “What do Signatures Signify? The Curious Case of 17th-Century English Key.” Free; no tickets required. Guest parking passes can be purchased at the Tufts University Police Department, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford. This colloquium is made possible by the Granoff Music Fund.
Find out more »Tufts Composers: Berio Folk Songs
The Tufts University Composers concert series presents Ensemble/Parallax performing Luciano Berio’s imaginative settings of well-known folk songs alongside 11 new responses to each Berio song, composed for the occasion by Tufts student, faculty, and guest composers. Featuring Peyman Farzinpour, Ensemble/Parallax music director and conductor, and guest soloists Julia Cavallaro and Sophie Michaux, mezzo sopranos. Free; no tickets required. This concert is made possible by the Granoff Music Fund.
Find out more »Tishler Performance Competition Finals
Tufts University students compete for the Elizabeth Verveer Tishler Prize in Music Performance. The Tishler Prize, established in 1984 by Elizabeth Verveer Tishler, is awarded on the basis of a competition, open to all undergraduates except those enrolled in the Tufts-New England Conservatory dual degree program. Performance is limited to classical, jazz, or modern work. Elizabeth Muriel Verveer Tishler was born in December 1909. She and her husband, Max Tishler, met at Tufts, from which she graduated in 1931. She…
Find out more »Tufts Youth Philharmonic Benefit Concert
This concert benefiting the Tufts Youth Philharmonic will include performances by TYP faculty and Tufts student mentors. Admission is free, but donations in support of the TYP program will be gratefully accepted. The Tufts Youth Philharmonic is a distinguished part the musical culture of Greater Boston. Open to advanced students 13 and up, TYP nurtures every aspect of each orchestra member's development, with individual attention and strong group camaraderie. Award-winning conductor and Tufts Director of Orchestral Activities, John Page, has…
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Lincoln Gray
In this Tufts University Family and Children's Concert, singer-songwriter Lincoln Gray performs original children's songs from his brand new album, "Listen to Lincoln!" Free; no tickets required.
Find out more »Jeremy Eichler on the Babi Yar Symphony
After the Second World War, the Soviet Union suppressed the memory of the Jewish massacre at Babi Yar and attempted to erase the site itself from the landscape. In this program, Jeremy Eichler, Public Scholar at the National Endowment for the Humanities and Classical Music Critic of The Boston Globe, charts both the earliest attempts at forced amnesia as well as the highly fraught creation of Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony, a "musical monument" that broke the official silence. This event is…
Find out more »Tufts Composers: Fool-Proof Preludes
The Tufts University faculty pianist Thomas Stumpf performs a program of preludes (and preludes to preludes) by Tufts undergraduates, graduates, and faculty composers and guest composers Hayes Biggs, Eric Sawyer, Lewis Spratlan, Ryan Vigil, Yehudi Wyner, and others (like Chopin). Free; no tickets required.
Find out more »Tufts New Music Ensemble
The New Music Ensemble at Tufts University performs its fall concert under the direction of Don Berman. Free; no tickets required.
Find out more »Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir Concert
Join the 220-voice Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir as it presents its spring concert. Tickets are $7 for general admission seating. Call 617-627-3679 to purchase tickets. If available, tickets will be sold at the door (cash).
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