
November 2023
Testimony: A Jazz Trio Concert
Tufts University Department of Music faculty member Joel LaRue Smith presents a deeply personal premiere performance of new, original straight-ahead jazz and Afro-Latin compositions from his newest albums, "Testimony" and "Jazz Soliloquy" (both released in 2023), alongside stunning new arrangements of jazz standards by Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins and Chano Pozo. Featuring guest performers Evan Palmer, bass, and Yoron Israel, drums. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. The concert also may be viewed online via…
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 to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. This concert also may be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Choruses
The Tufts University Sunday Concert Series presents the Tufts Concert Choir and Chamber Singers performing their fall concert, “Forest Through the Trees,” with Jamie Kirsch, conductor, and Thomas Stumpf, pianist. Featuring works by Josquin, Gimon, Butler, Brahms, Szymko, Walker, Schwartz and Pottle. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. The concert also may be viewed online through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Early Music Ensemble: Isabella’s Music
Tufts University's Early Music Ensemble presents a concert of music from the court of one of the most influential musical patrons of early 16th-century Italy, Isabella D'Este of Mantua. Featuring music for viols, harpsichord, voices, Renaissance harps, recorders, lute, and other Renaissance instruments. Jane Hershey, director. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. This concert also may be viewed live online through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Chamber Music
Tufts University students present works for strings and piano. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. The concert also may be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Composers: New at Noon #2 – Dream of Spring in November
Today's Tufts Composers New at Noon program is titled "Dream of Spring in November." Out of season, out of mind? Never the case with Schubert’s "Winterreise." Here, stemming from workshops with soprano Karol Bennett presenting her new interpretation of the work, Tufts Composers riff on the particulars of this singularly lasting song cycle, uncovering its vulnerabilities through original vocal and instrumental responses. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. The concert also may be viewed online via…
Find out more »Tufts Youth Philharmonic
The Tufts University Youth Philharmonic, directed by John Page, presents its fall concert. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. The concert also may be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Chamber Orchestra
The Tufts University Sunday Concert Series features the Tufts Chamber Orchestra presenting its fall concert under the direction of John Page. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. The concert also may be viewed online through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
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 was…
Find out more »Tufts New Music Ensemble: Antarctica
The New Music Ensemble at Tufts University presents "Antarctica" — songs of melting ice caps, underwater creatures, and compositions inspired by sonic outlands. Don Berman, director. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. The concert also may be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »December 2023
Tufts Composers Chamber Music: Games of Form
The Tufts University Department of Music presents "Games of Form," a concert of chamber music by faculty composers David Coleman, Mark DeVoto, Michael McLaughlin, Sid Richardson, Kareem Roustom, Thomas Stumpf and Joel Larue Smith, interspersed with new graduate and undergraduate composers’ miniatures. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. The concert also may be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Arab Music Ensemble: Hayah
The Tufts University Arab Music Ensemble, directed by Naseem Alatrash, will be joined by Astaza, the Middle East Ensemble at Boston College, led by Nizar Fares, to present a concert entitled "Hayah," Arabic for “life.” The two groups will present a selection of songs from across the Arab world. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. The concert also may be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Flute Ensemble
The Tufts University Sunday Concert Series features the Tufts Flute Ensemble presenting fun and thought-provoking music from the 17th century to the 20th century featuring works by Quantz, Bozza, Frackenpohl, Hook, Krell and Etler. Nina Barwell, director. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. The concert also may be viewed online through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #3: Same-Except
How might linguists Peter Culicover’s and Ray Jackendoff’s "Same-Except" cognitive relation redirect Tufts Composers’ musical thought processes? Show up, find out. Free to the public with no tickets required. The program also will be viewable online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Opera Ensemble: From Mozart to Sondheim
The Tufts University Opera Ensemble, directed by Carol Mastrodomenico and Thomas Stumpf, presents scenes both sad and comical from the worlds of opera, operetta, and musical theater. Free to the public with no tickets required. Also viewable online through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Kiniwe
Kiniwe, the African Music and Dance Ensemble at Tufts University, and guests will perform music and dance from the Ashanti, Dagomba, and Ewe people of Ghana. Joining Kiniwe, directed by Attah Poku, will be Mohammed Alidu, the Worcester Polytechnic Institute African Drumming Ensemble, Emmanuel Agbeli, and the Agbekor Derumming and Dance Society. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Tufts Wind Ensemble – WE Sow, WE Grow
The Tufts University Department of Music's Family and Children's Concert Series presents the Tufts Wind Ensemble, led by guest conductor Jadine Louie, celebrating nature’s gifts through music. Selections will include Grainger’s "Harvest Hymn," Bernstein's "Make Our Garden Grow," and a sing-along of David Mallett’s "The Garden Song." Special guests include vocalists Elize Howells, Kenan Oktay, and "Rainbow Jeff" Rawitsch. The program also includes the premiere of Bo Konigsmark's "Transformations." Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Symphony Orchestra
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents the Tufts Symphony Orchestra performing its fall concert under the direction of John Page. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Pep Band: Pep the Halls!
Join the Tufts University Pep Band, directed by Michel Muller, for their first ever holiday concert at Distler Hall. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »February 2024
Tufts Youth Philharmonic Benefit Concert
Members of the Tufts Youth Philharmonic perform a concert to benefit their program. John Page directs. Suggested donation at the door is $10 per person, $25 per family. The performance also will be viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Beethoven, Brahms and More
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents violinist Sarita Uranovsky and pianist Hisako Hiratsuka for an afternoon of music including sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms, along with Korngold's Suite "Much Ado About Nothing." Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #4
The 2023-24 Tufts Composers series resumes with music by Jeannette Chechile and fellow Tufts composers that explores and questions beguiling structural underpinnings and patterns. Free to the public with no tickets required. The program also will be viewable online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Kidcappella
"Rainbow Jeff" Rawitsch hosts Tufts University's student-run a cappella groups Enchanted, the Jackson Jills, sQ!, and the Amalgamates in a Family and Children's Concert of tunes for music fans of all ages. The program will culminate in a sing-along of "Rainbow Connection" with Rich Stillman, banjo. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Time’s Echo: On Art and Memory with Jeremy Eichler
Tufts University welcomes author and critic Jeremy Eichler for a program on his recent book, "Times Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and the Music of Remembance. Eichler, chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe, offers a genre-blurring piece of work on art, war and memory that has been named History Book of the Year by The Sunday Times of London. Published by Knopf in 2023 yet “already classic” (Samuel Moyn, Yale University), the book proposes new ways…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Duo Cello e Basson with Sarah Whitney
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents Duo Cello e Basso (Emmanuel Feldman, Pascale Delache-Feldman), joined by violinist Sarah Whitney in an program of solos, duos, and trios by Ravel, Bach, Florence Price, Piazzolla, and Mark O'Connor. Free to the public with no tickets required.
Find out more »Tufts Composers: New at Noon #3 – Fidelio Trio
Today's Tufts Composers New at Noon program, titled "Three-In-One," features the London-based Fidelio Trio: Darragh Morgan, violin; Tim Gill, cello; and Mary Dullea, piano. They'll perform new American and Irish works by T.J. Anderson, David Fennessy, John McDonald, and more, followed by a workshop of Tufts student compositions. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Tufts Choirs
Tufts University's Department of Music presents a Family and Children's Concert, titled "Adventures and Dreams," featuring Tufts Choirs in an adventurous program featuring “Rainbow Jeff” Rawitsch and more. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Film Screening: Gone to the Village
Tufts University presents a special screening of the documentary film "Gone to the Village," which details the elaborate funerary rites for the Queen Mother of the Asante in Ghana. The film beautifully represents the persistent richness of Asante cultural practice in 21st- century Ghana amid the onslaught of colonialism and globalization. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film's director, Professor Kwasi Ampene. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, Tisch College, and the Departments of…
Find out more »March 2024
Adrian Sicam: Here to Love You
The Tufts University Department of Music welcomes vocalist Adrian Sicam and friends and colleagues from Berklee College of Music for an uplifting evening that answers the call of love in the wake of tumultuous and transformative times. The program will include the musical talents of Harold Charon, Kevin Scollins, Youngchae Jeong, Ivanna Cuesta, Lydia Harrell, Andrea Capozzoli, plus a special guest. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Wind Ensemble
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents the program "Duck Duck Duck Duck Goose," featuring music for brass choir, harmonie band, and percussion ensemble, followed by Paul Hindemith's masterful Symphony in B-flat for the full Tufts Wind Ensemble. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Flora and Fauna on Flute and Piano
The Tufts University Department of Music presents the program "Flora and Fauna," with flutist Ashley Addington and pianist John McDonald exploring the vivid, unique sounds and depictions of nature through acoustic and electroacoustic works. Featuring music by McDonald, Elainie Lillios, Allison Loggins-Hull, Valerie Coleman and Aaron Copland. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Russell Lecture on Spiritual Life: Dee-1
Tufts University's Russell Lecture on Spiritual Life presents Tisch College Artist/Scholar-in-Residence Dee-1 speaking on the topic, "My Joy Is My Weapon: Lyrics, Prayer, and Spiritual Repair." Dee-1 began rapping and performing publicly while in college at Louisiana State University. After graduating from LSU in 2008, he taught middle school math in Baton Rouge. After two years of teaching, he pivoted to focus exclusively on his music career. In 2010, Dee-1 was named Artist of the Year at the NOLA Underground…
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Babar the Little Elephant
The Tufts University Department of Music presents a Family and Children's Concert, "Babar the Little Elephant," with pianist Andy Rangell narrating, illustrating, and performing the classic children’s story with music by Poulenc. There is no scary hunter in this retelling! Free to the public with no tickets required. Following the concert, all are invited to stay for Super Arts Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. and participate in exciting art, dance, drama, and music activities, including a sing-along with “Rainbow…
Find out more »Tufts Super Arts Saturday
The Tufts University Department of Music invites families and children to Super Arts Saturday and participate in exciting art, K-Pop dance, theater projects, and African drumming activities, plus a sing-along with “Rainbow Jeff” Rawitsch. The event will be preceded by a Tufts Family and Children's Concert, "Babar the Little Elephant," from 1 to 2 p.m., with pianist Andy Rangell narrating, illustrating, and performing the classic children’s story with music by Poulenc. Free admission, with 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 their musical passions in a unique evening of classical, jazz, and original compositions. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #4
Tufts Composers continues the New Sounds Now series with the program "Small Choices." No grand narrative? No categories? Is our music post-genre? And do Tufts Composers still have something to say? Free to the public with no tickets required. The program also will be viewable online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Solomont Speaker Series: Nora McInerny
The Solomont Speaker Series at Tufts University presents a conversation with award-winning podcast host and bestselling author Nora McInerny titled “How Are You? (No, Really.)” McInerny wants to know the truth. She is known for taking on topics often avoided — death, loss, illness, mental health, trauma, and change — with disarming humor and candor. She is the creator and host of the podcasts “Terrible, Thanks For Asking” and “It’s Going To Be OK," and the TED speaker known for…
Find out more »Thomas Stumpf: To See the World in a Grain of Sand
The Tufts Department of Music presents faculty pianist Thomas Stumpf performing a selection of short but emotionally powerful pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Bartok. In addition, the program includes works by African American composers Regina Harris Baiocchi and Julia Perry, Tufts composers John McDonald and Kareem Roustom, and the world premiere of a piece Yehudi Wyner, Free to the public with no tickets required.
Find out more »Standing Up for Bach with Emmanuel Feldman
The Tufts University Department of Music presents cellist Emmanuel Feldman presenting all six Bach Cello Suites using his newly invented TekStand, which allows him to play his cello while standing rather than in the traditional seated position. Introducing each suite, Feldman explores the character and challenges presented by these iconic works. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming. Note: This program was rescheduled from its original date of March 1.
Find out more »Tufts Composers: New Chamber Music
This Tufts Composers concert, with Ben O'Toole and Kevin Tang, features newly written chamber music of a variety of ensembles and styles put together for this event. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »April 2024
Tufts Composers: Fusion Recipes for Fools
April Fool’s Day seems ideal for presenting Tufts University faculty composer/conductor/pianist David Coleman’s Sonata Con Fusion, with new works by Tufts Composers rounding out this evening of musical sleight-of-ear. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »An Evening with Maria Friedman and Friends
Tufts University presents an evening with musical theater with award-winning actress, singer, and director Maria Friedman. Director of the hit Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s "Merrily We Roll Along," Friedman has won three Olivier Awards. Most recently, she has starred in "Legacy," a tribute to the musical legacies of Michel Legrand, Marvin Hamlisch, and Stephen Sondheim, all of whom Friedman counted as friends and collaborators. Any member of the general public can get two complimentary tickets to this event, while…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Iron River Singers
The Tufts University Sunday Concert Series features a presentation and performance of indigenous music with the Iron River Singers, a well-known northern style pow-wow singing group. The members are made up of several Native nations including Chippewa, Wampanoag, Abenaki and Passamaquoddy. The Iron River Singers will perform traditional pow-wow music from their repertoire of music, along with dance performances, and punctuated by short explanations. The 3 p.m. concert will be preceded by an interactive presentation at 2 p.m. by the group's director and…
Find out more »Tufts Wind Ensemble: Transitions
The Tufts University Wind Ensemble honors its graduating seniors and graduate students with music from one place to another, including William Schuman's "George Washington Bridge" and Respighi's "Pines of the Appian Way." Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming. Additionally, the Department of Music honors Professor John McCann as he conducts his final concert after 38 years at Tufts! Come early for a pre-concert reception to toast Professor McCann at 6:30 p.m.…
Find out more »Tufts New Music Ensemble
The New Music Ensemble at Tufts University, under the direction of Donald Berman, performs the concert "Great Recordings of the World’s Best Music." Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. The concert also may be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Choruses
Jamie Kirsch leads the Tufts University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers in their spring concert. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #5
Tufts Composers continues the New Sounds Now series with the program "Build Up, Fall Down." What does it take for a piece of music to "stay together"? Tufts composers pose this question differently with each new piece. Free to the public with no tickets required. The program also will be viewable online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Chamber Music
Tufts University students present works for strings, winds, piano and brass. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Kiniwe
Kiniwe, the African Music and Dance Ensemble of the Tufts Music Department, and guests perform music and dance from the Ashanti, Dagomba and Ga people of Ghana. Guests will include Mohammed Alidu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute's African Drumming Ensemble, the New England Conservatory's Mile Norvisi, and the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Chamber Orchestra
The Tufts University Sunday Concert series welcomes the Tufts Chamber Orchestra performing its spring concert under the direction of John Page. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Opera Ensemble
Join the Tufts Opera Ensemble for two mystical and mysterious one-act operas: "The Medium" by Gian Carlo Menotti and "A Game of Chance" by Seymour Barab. Carol Mastrodomenico, stage director; Thomas Stumpf, music director. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming. The program will be repeated at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 26, in Distler Hall.
Find out more »Tufts Composers: New at Noon #4
Today's Tufts Composers New at Noon program is titled "Solo Lullabies and Wake-Up Calls." Guest artist Aaron Larget-Caplan has commissioned and premiered more than 70 new lullabies for classical guitar. For this concert, he wakes us up to new Tufts student works presented alongside selections from his repertory. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Opera Ensemble
Join the Tufts Opera Ensemble for two mystical and mysterious one-act operas: "The Medium" by Gian Carlo Menotti and "A Game of Chance" by Seymour Barab. Carol Mastrodomenico, stage director; Thomas Stumpf, music director. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Symphony Orchestra
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents the Tufts Symphony Orchestra performing its spring concert under the direction of John Page. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Flute Ensemble
The Tufts University Flute Ensemble presents a varied spring concert featuring music from the 18th to 21st century. Nina Barwell, director. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Early Music and Arab Music Ensembles
Tufts University's Early Music Ensemble and Arab Music Ensemble collaborate for a night of music at the confluence of musical traditions in Medieval Spain and beyond. Directed by Jane Hershey and Naseem Alatrash. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »May 2024
Tufts Pep Band
Join the Tufts University Pep Band, directed by Michel Muller, for their spring concert at Distler Hall. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Electronic Music Ensemble: Blessed Relief
The Tufts University Electronic Music Ensemble presents "Blessed Relief," another in a series of highly eclectic electric concerts played entirely on electronic instruments. Dr. Paul D. Lehrman, director. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Youth Philharmonic
The Tufts University Youth Philharmonic performs its last concert of the school year, under the direction of John Page. Suggested donation at the door: $10 per person/$25 per family. The concert also may be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »September 2024
Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #1: Kinko, Kimpu, Kokû
The Tufts University Composers begin the fall semester series of New Sounds Now with Elizabeth Reian Bennett, shakuhachi, performing traditional Japanese solo works from repertories of the Kinko and Kimpu schools, in addition to several new melodies by Tufts Composers composed with kokû ("empty bamboo") in mind. Free and open to the public with no tickets required.
Find out more »Ancient Tunes and New Melodies: Sing for World Harmony
The Tufts University Department of Music presents a performance of traditional Chinese culture exquisitely prepared by the Student Art Troupe of Beijing Normal University, China. The evening will feature a variety of performances including traditional Chinese music, dance, Beijing Opera, Hanfu Show, and Chinese Kungfu. By embracing the cultural heritage of ancient China while absorbing contemporary expressions, the authentic performances offer a vivid interpretation of Chinese people’s vibrant spirits and timeless pursuits, celebrating the universal harmony in the world. Co-sponsored…
Find out more »Lamnth Season Opener
Lamnth — a new violin and cimbalom duo at Tufts University founded by Lilit Hartunian and Nicholas Tolle — kicks off their second full season with newly commissioned works by Tufts Composers John McDonald, Sid Richardson and Yixiao Wang. These works will be presented alongside a piece from Lamnth's existing repertory and a new performance of "Sonatine" (1984) by Peter Maxwell Davies. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »October 2024
The Origin of Blues: The Native American Influence
The Tufts Departments of Music and Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies invite you to join DC's queen of the blues, Carly Harvey, for a performance/lecture on the Native American origins of blues music. With a fusion of history and performance, Harvey engages audiences first with Native American melodies, then embarks on a journey of how blues was created, from African American experiences pre- and post-Civil War, how it has evolved over the years, and how it influences modern day music. Free…
Find out more »Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #2
In today's edition of New Sounds Now, the Tufts University Composers ask: What can you express in a minute or less? Come find out. Free and open to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Composers: New at Noon #1 – What Is This Sloppy Music?
Tufts Composers begins a new season of New at Noon with "What Is This Sloppy Music?" "Mozart" (Mozahrt) was apparently once used as a nickname for "sloppy people." Taking inspiration from W.A. Mozart’s striking Minuet in D, K.355, Tufts Composers have cobbled together solo instrumental pieces in response to its challenges with the promise that they’ll be cleaned up in time for performance. With Thomas Stumpf, John McDonald, and other faculty performers to be announced. Free to the public with…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Gateway Jaz
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series welcomes Gateway Jaz in a performance blending a variety of genres including funk, blues, rock, and video game classics, all while deeply steeped in jazz traditions. Gateway Jaz pushes musical boundaries and intertwines genres while creating a sound that is both unique and captivating. Members are Phill Grannan, guitar; Tim Moyer, saxophone; Jake Gabriszeki, drums; and Galen Willett, bass. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »November 2024
Tufts Wind Ensemble
The Tufts University Wind Ensemble performs music by Alfred Reed, Elliot Del Borgo, Eric Whitacre, Brian Balmages, Crafton Williams, and Omar Thomas. Ray Daniels, director. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming. Note: This concert was rescheduled from its original date of October 20.
Find out more »Tufts/NEC Dual Degree Recital
Students from Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music studying in this program present a unique evening of classical, jazz, and original compositions. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. This concert also may be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Jazz Divas & Women Who Rock
The Tufts Department of Music's Sunday Concert Series presents "Jazz Divas & Women Who Rock." Enjoy a fun and inspiring journey through the lives and music of groundbreaking women in American popular music, from early blues and jazz singers like Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday to '60s songwriters and rockers like Joni Mitchell and Carole King. Featuring Celia Slattery, voice, and guests. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »L’Étoile Duo: Look What Happened Now – Stars Entwine
The Tufts Department of Music presents the L’Étoile Duo — violinists Hsin-Lin Tsai and Miguel Perez-Espejo Cardenas — performing new repertory-building works for two violins by John McDonald and Kareem Roustom, alongside other bright chamber music by Tufts Composers. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Sufi Utterances for Peace
The Tufts Department of Music presents Sufi Utterances for Peace: Qawwali Mehfil performed by Ghayoor-Moiz-Mustafa Qawwal & Brothers. Qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional voice and instrumental performance, originating in South Asia. Each performance is unique, as these classically trained vocalists, who are amongst the most exciting contemporary practitioners, interweave verse-chorus sequences that are rich in poetic and spiritual symbolism in Urdu, Farsi, Hindi, Poorvi, Arabic, and Punjabi. Registration recommended through the event web page. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University History…
Find out more »Tufts Choruses Fall Concert
The Tufts University Choruses perform under the direction of Jamie Kirsch. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Music of the Jewish World
Today's Tufts Sunday Concert Series program is "Music of the Jewish World - Turkey, Syria, and Brooklyn, N.Y." It will be performed by Beth Bahia Cohen on violin and yayli tanbur and guests Tev Stevig, oud, tanbur, and bendir; Ezgi Kurt, voice; and Stefanos Athinaios, percussion. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Early Music Ensemble: Banchetto Musicale
The Tufts Early Music Ensemble presents the program Banchetto Musicale, featuring lieder and instrumental music by Isaac, Senfl, Scheidt, Schein, and others for Renaissance ensemble including sackbuts, recorders, dulcian, violas da gamba, harps, harpsichord, lute, chamber organ and voices. Jane Hershey, director, with guest Dan Meyers, recorders, sackbut, and percussion. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Chamber Orchestra
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents the Tufts Chamber Orchestra performing Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 under the direction of John Page. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Composers: New at Noon #2
Tufts Composers present a New at Noon program featuring new vocal settings suggested by T.J. Anderson's 2022 "Three Songs of Life," offered alongside songs, settings, and instrumentals by Julia Cavallaro, Duke Ellington, Eliza Howells, Matthew Seliger, Melinda Tian, Christopher Walton, Yixiao Wang, and guest composer Trevor Weston (Tufts class of 1989). Featuring soprano Janet Stone, mezzo sopranos Julia Cavallaro and Eliza Howells, pianist John McDonald, and bassoonist Angela Tsou. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts…
Find out more »Tufts Youth Philharmonic Fall Concert
The Tufts University Youth Philharmonic presents its fall concert under the direction of John Page. Music includes Tchaikovsky's Overture to Romeo and Juliet, selections from Bizet's Carmen Suite, Mozart's Overture to the Magic Flute, and John Williams' "Raiders March" from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Suggested donation at the door: $10 per person, $25 per family. Also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Flute Ensemble
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series features the Tufts Flute Ensemble presenting a fun, intriguing, and varied program of music from the 17th to the 21st century featuring bass, alto, C flute and piccolo. Nina Barwell, director. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »December 2024
Tufts Chamber Music
Tufts University students present works for strings, winds, brass and piano. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts New Music Ensemble
The New Music Ensemble at Tufts University performs under the direction of Donald Berman. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #3: Harmonica Designs
Today's edition of New Sounds Now, "Harmonica Designs," will feature Leon Li, a harmonica performer and PhD student working on harmonica acoustics, design, and development with Jiangyin Soundreal Music Instrument Co., Ltd. Li will team up with Tufts Composers to forge a new body of work for newly streamlined instruments. Free and open to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Opera Ensemble: Monteverdi to Menken
The Tufts University Opera Ensemble presents "Monteverdi to Menken - An Evening of Opera, Operetta, and Musical Theater Scenes" from composers Claudio Monteverdi to Alan Menken and everyone in between. Carol Mastrodomenico, stage director, and Thomas Stumpf, music director. Free to the public with no tickets required. Also viewable online through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Kiniwe
Attah Poku leads Kiniwe, the African Music and Dance Ensemble at Tufts University, in a performance of music and dance from Ghana featuring Mohammed Alidu, the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society, and the New England Conservatory’s Mile Norvisi ensemble. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Tufts Wind Ensemble
The Tufts University Wind Ensemble, directed by Ray Daniels, performs "Sleigh Ride," a holiday concert for kids and families. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Symphony Orchestra
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents the Tufts Symphony Orchestra performing its fall concert under the direction of John Page. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Arab Music Ensemble
The Tufts University Arab Music Ensemble, directed by Naseem Alatrash, performs a selection of instrumental and vocal music that represents a wide range of genres within the Arab world. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required; also viewable online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Pep Band: Pep the Halls!
Join the Tufts University Pep Band, directed by Michel Muller, for their second annual holiday concert at Distler Hall. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »January 2025
Tufts Youth Philharmonic Benefit Concert
Members of the Tufts Youth Philharmonic perform a concert to benefit their program. John Page directs. Suggested donation at the door is $10 per person, $25 per family. The performance also will be viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »February 2025
Tufts Sunday Concert: Walking Shadows
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents "Walking Shadows," with Edith Auner and Thomas Stumpf performing works for piano four hands by Brahms, Stumpf, and Schubert. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #4: When We’re Upset
What disturbing issues, concepts, attitudes, and occurrences incite musical responses? In today's edition of New Sounds Now, "When We're Upset," Tufts Composers provide provisional examples in new works for performance. Free and open to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »James Dick Foundation Benefit Concert
Medford High graduate Iverson Eliopoulos will conduct the orchestra as acclaimed pianist James Dick takes the stage at Tufts University's Distler Hall to perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in a benefit concert for the James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts. Eliopoulos, program director of the foundation's Round Top Festival Institute and Medford High Class of 2017, will lead the orchestra in a program of three delightful works for chamber orchestra, culminating in Mozart's transcendent Piano Concerto No. 23…
Find out more »Tufts Composers: New at Noon #3
In today's New at Noon series program, "Make Me Something to Play," Tufts Composers tackle the challenge of writing for aspiring instrumentalists. Looking to T.J. Anderson, Bartok, McDonald, Satie, Stravinsky and others, didactic ideas turn fully musical. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Rainbow Jeff EP Release Show
Today's Family and Children's Concert presented by the Tufts Department of Music is a special occasion: It celebrates the release of "Life’s A Song. Sing It Loudly!,” a digital EP of original songs by “Rainbow Jeff” Rawitsch! “Listen to Lincoln” Gray and “Musical Megan” McCormick join “Rainbow Jeff" for a concert to celebrate the achievement, which was two decades in the making, and remind all of us that “Life’s A Song. Sing It Loudly!” Rawitsch, the manager of the Granoff…
Find out more »Tufts Composers: Tone Stampede
Tufts Composers members Marti Epstein, Arthur Levering and John McDonald create a new-music rumble with new works performed by Ashley Addington and Sarah Brady, flute; Yoko Hagino and John McDonald, piano; Rane Moore, clarinet; and Philipp Stauedlin, saxophone. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »March 2025
Tufts Beelzebubs Spring Show
The Beelzebubs, the internationally recognized male a cappella group at Tufts University, present their spring Show, which will also feature performances by the Jackson Jills, Tufts' oldest all-femme a cappella group, and the Supernovas, Villanova University's oldest all-gender a cappella group. Free admission; no tickets required.
Find out more »Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #5: Self-Similarity
Today's fifth edition of Tufts Composers' New Sounds Now series is titled "Self-Similarity: Algo-Rhythmic Composition, Automaticity, and Counting." Tufts Composers look to composer Tom Johnson, asking: What resembles the thing that just happened? What makes our music move and dance without overthought? Can we count in new ways? Free and open to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts/NEC Dual Degree Recital
Students from Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music studying in this program present a unique evening of classical, jazz, and original compositions. Free to the public for in-person attendance with no tickets required. This concert also may be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »A Girl and Her Crocodile
Molly Wong’s one-act opera "A Girl and Her Crocodile" receives its stage premiere at Tufts University. Featuring Kristen Watson and Krista River, voice; John McDonald, piano; Nathan Troup, director; and Riley Halliday, costumes. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Film Screening: Ballaké Sissoko, Kora Tales
The Tufts Department of Music presents the screening of the film "Ballaké Sissoko, Kora Tales," telling the story of the kora, one of Africa’s most iconic instruments and featuring kora player Ballaké Sissoko. Co-written and co directed by Lucy Durán and Laurent Benhamou. This screening is part of the International Symposium on the Musical Arts of Africa, taking place at Tufts on March 28-29.
Find out more »Tufts Composers: Look What Happened Now
Violist Anna Griffis premieres Kareem Roustom’s "Pavane (pour les enfants défuntes)" alongside other new works for strings by Tufts Composers. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
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