Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University

Tufts University presents in concert the City of Tomorrow, an award-winning woodwind quintet with a fearless aesthetic and a commitment to music of our time. The group will present an exciting program featuring a world premiere by Brad Balliett (described as “impressive” by The New Yorker) inspired by birdsong, then delve deeper into the woods with Hans Abrahamsen’s "Walden." Also on the program are beautifully contemplative and electrifying works by Pauline Oliveros, Kevin Kay, Tanya Leon and Viet Cuong. Quintet members…

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.

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.

This Tufts University Sunday Concert Series event features the Tufts Russian and Slavic Student Association members performing their  spring concert. Tickets for the festival are free but are recommended to be reserved in advance. To reserve tickets, please e-mail Marina Aptekman at marina.aptekman@tufts.edu.

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.  

The Tufts Wind Ensemble, directed by John McCann, will perform a Tufts Sunday Concert Series program  entitled "War and Peace." The ensemble will perform music by John Williams (Hymn to the Fallen), Don Nelson (Morning Alleluias for the Victims of Hiroshima), Charles Ives (The Unanswered Question), Richard Rogers (Victory at Sea), David Holsinger (In the Spring when Kings Go Off to War) and Robert Spittal (Pacem). Free; no tickets required.

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.

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…

This concert benefiting the Tufts Youth Philharmonic will include performances by TYP faculty and Tufts student mentors. Suggested donation is $10 per person and or $25 per family. 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 been on the faculties…

Tufts University graduate composition student Edwin Munera presents his master’s thesis concert. Performers include Munera on guitar; Julia Cavallar, voice; Jonathan Hess, percussion; John McDonald, piano; Lilit Hartunian and Samuel Graber-Hahn, violin; Anna Griffis, viola; Emmanuel Feldman, cello; and Jenny Oliver and Ndubuisi Ofoegbu, dance. Free; no tickets required.

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.  

Tufts University graduate composition students Ryan Carraher and Alexander Hite present their master’s thesis concert. Ryan's portion of the concert includes works for chamber ensemble and soprano, and solo guitar featuring graphic notation; Alexander's portion is a live performance of a score written for "This Is Not The End," a video game about battling depression developed by students from Northeastern University's Game Design program. Featuring Rose Hegele, soprano; Orlando Cela, flute; Philipp Stäudlin, saxophone;  Anna Griffis, violin and viola; Emmanuel Feldman, cello; John McDonald and…

The New Music Ensemble at Tufts University performs a program of pieces that take as their structure descriptions from the Tufts Course Catalogue. Donald Berman, director. Free; no tickets required.

The Tufts University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers welcome choral alumni back to the Granoff Music Center for a reunion culminating in a special performance of Johannes Brahms's German Requiem, Op. 45, featuring Edith Auner and Thomas Stumpf, pianists. In addition, the choruses will perform the world premiere of "Songs for the Earth" for choir, percussion and piano, a work by Tufts alumna Rebecca Sacks (Class of 2006). Free; no tickets required. This concert has been made possible by the…

The Fidelio Trio -- Darragh Morgan, violin; Adi Tai, cello; and Mary Dullea, piano -- presents an evening of new Irish and American works. The London-based trio, shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, are enthusiastic champions of the piano trio genre, performing the widest possible range of repertoire on concert stages across the world. Keen to ensure the future development of the piano trio, the Fidelio Trio works closely with composition and performance students at institutions across the…

The Tufts University Early Music Ensemble presents, "If I could shut the gate against my thoughts," songs of conflict and fantasticke love from Elizabethan England. Directed by Jane Hershey, the ensemble will perform music of Campion, Dowland, Rosseter and others for voices, harpsichord, viola da gamba, recorder, and other Renaissance instruments with guest lutenist Catherine Liddell. Free; no tickets required.

The Tufts University Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Fidelio Trio -- Darragh Morgan, violin; Adi Tai, cello; and Mary Dullea, piano -- as soloists. The Fidelio Trio is a London-based group that is in a three-day residence at Tufts this week. They are enthusiastic champions of the piano trio genre, performing the widest possible range of repertoire on concert stages across the world. Keen to ensure the future development of the piano trio, the Fidelio Trio works closely with composition…

The Fidelio Trio -- Darragh Morgan, violin; Adi Tai, cello; and Mary Dullea, piano -- will perform three-minute trios by Tufts University composers, written expressly for them. The Fidelio Trio is a London-based group that is in a three-day residence at Tufts this week. They are enthusiastic champions of the piano trio genre, performing the widest possible range of repertoire on concert stages across the world. Keen to ensure the future development of the piano trio, the Fidelio Trio works closely with…

Kiniwe (Attah Poku, director), the African Music and Dance Ensemble of the Tufts University Music Department, hosts Fafali (Ben Paulding, director) from Brandeis University in a performance of contemporary versions of traditional music and dance genres of the Ashanti, Ewe, Dagomba, and Gá ethno-linguistic communities (Ghana). In the Ewe language, fafali means “Let there be life” and kiniwe means “Are you ready?” Come ready to celebrate! Free; no tickets required.

This edition of the Tufts University Sunday Concert Series presents the Tufts Wind Ensemble, performing under the direction of John McCann. The ensemble will perform music from Princess Mononoke, Ravel's Bolero, The Hogwart's March, an arrangement of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and the Beauty and the Beast Overture, and the premier of Cell Phone Symphony, written by Tufts student George Behrakis. Free; no tickets required.

Tufts University students present chamber music works for strings, winds, brass and piano. Free; no tickets required.

In its final concert of the 2018-19 school year, the Tufts University Chamber Orchestra presents a colorful program of works from three different musical periods. The first, Orawa by Wojciech Kilar, is a post-minimalist piece for string orchestra. Its driving power and unexpected harmonies showcase what the TCO strings are capable of. Second on the program is the Concert Românesc, written in 1951 by György Ligeti. This colorful piece paints a picture of Eastern Europe with a collection of folk…

The Tufts University Opera Ensemble, directed by Carol Mastrodomenico and Thomas Stumpf, presents Jules Massenet's Cendrillon, a delightfully melodious fairy tale opera based on Perrault's version of the familiar cross-cultural Cinderella story, in an English translation. Free; no tickets required. This concert will be live streamed via the Tufts Music Live stream page. A second performance will be presented at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 26, at Distler Hall.

The Tufts University Opera Ensemble, directed by Carol Mastrodomenico and Thomas Stumpf, presents Jules Massenet's Cendrillon, a delightfully melodious fairy tale opera based on Perrault's version of the familiar cross-cultural Cinderella story, in an English translation. Free; no tickets required. This concert will be live streamed via the Tufts Music Live stream page.  

Tufts Takht, the Arab Music ensemble at Tufts University, presents an evening of music, photography and poetry celebrating Iraqi art in all its folkloric and contemporary forms. Layth Sidiq, director. Free; no tickets required. This concert will be live streamed via the Tufts Music Live stream page.    

The Tufts University Flute Ensemble plays music from the 17th to the 21st centuries performed on piccolo, C flute, alto, and bass flutes. Nina Barwell, director. Free; no tickets required.

The Jumbo Knish Factory at Tufts University presents traditional Jewish and non-Jewish folk repertoire from Russia, the Ukraine, and other territories of the old Russian empire, joined by special guests Leon Gunther and the Bielalitsa Chorus. Michael McLaughlin, director. Free; no tickets required.

The Tufts University Symphony Orchestra performs its spring concert under the direction of John Page.  Opening the concert are two pieces by well-established modern composers, both of them Tufts faculty members. First, Kareem Roustom’s "Aleppo Songs" is a colorful depiction of urban folk songs from Syria. Next is John McDonald’s "Braced," arranged specifically for TSO. Following these pieces, Thomas Risoleo (Tufts Class of 2021), the 2019 Concerto Competition winner, solos with the orchestra in Grieg’s ravishing Piano Concerto in A…

Tufts University hosts the premier of "Julian's Fasti," a concert work created by Colin Gee and Tufts professor of music John McDonald. The performance follows Ovid’s "The Book of Days," a six-part poem with entries for the months January to June, remarking on issues that persist today. With subtle subversion, the character Julian contends with fear and loss by traversing a gamut of emotional stances and behaviors stemming from religious, political, and antiquarian schemes. Featuring Colin Gee, performing artist (movement and…

Tufts University Composers present an Extra Concert featuring works by 11 composers: Jeannette Chechile, Sajani Clerk, Connor Elliott, Wen Gao, Joshua Kim, Mark Bolan Konigsmark, Mo Liu, Max Luo, Henry Molot, Ian Rumsey, and Sarah Shnayder. With performances by the Into The Light Ensemble (M.B. Konigsmark, music director), Katalin Csillagh, Iverson Eliopoulos, John McDonald, Aaron Wong, and many others.

Participants in the Adult Chamber Music Workshop, part of the Tufts University Community Music Program, perform a concert of chamber music as the culmination of their semester of study. Free; no tickets required.  

Students in the Tufts University Community Music Program, from elementary through high school ages, will perform their spring concerts. There will be four concerts in all, at 10:45 a.m., noon, and 1:45 and 3:30 p.m. Free; no tickets required.

The Tufts University Youth Philharmonic presents its spring concert under the direction of John Page. Free; no tickets required.

Tufts University opens its Sunday Concert Series for the 2019-2020 academic year with a song recital featuring soprano Susan Narucki and pianist Donald Berman. The program will feature works by emerging composers Nina C. Young, Ingird Stolzel, Christopher Cerrone and Aaron Helgeson, with music of 20th century nonconformists Nadia Boulanger, Charles Ives, Viktor Ullmann and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Free; no tickets required.

Tufts University continues its Sunday Concert Series with a performance by the Fernando Huergo Big Band. A bassist and composer originally from Argentina, Huergo's latest project features his original compositions and arrangements for big band. Consisting of some of Boston's finest musicians, the group plays the music of Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Antonio Loureiro, and Huergo. The music features odd meters and a modern approach of the big band sound, and appears on Huergo's upcoming album. Free; no tickets…

The Ludovico Ensemble, a Boston-based chamber ensemble specializing in modern music, returns to Tufts University to perform two recent and contrasting ensemble works by John Aylward and two by Julia Werntz from different periods, alongside "Three Stones," a work by Mischa Salkind-Pearl written for the ensemble in 2010. Ensemble members are Lilit Hartunian, violin; Anna Griffis, viola; Leo Eguchi, cello; Sarah Brady, flute; Jen Slowik, oboe; Rane Moore, clarinet; Sarah Bob and John McDonald, piano; Nick Tolle, percussion; and Jeffrey Means, conductor.…

Tufts University continues its Sunday Concert Series with Philipp Stäudlin presenting a recital of music for the saxophone. Yoko Hagino will accompany on piano. Featurnig works by John Aylward, Eun Young Lee, Charles Wuorinen, Franz Schubert, John McDonald and William Albright. Stäudlin is an award-winning virtuoso saxophonist who has performed hundreds of concerts throughout North America, Europe and Asia. His characteristic tonal qualities, deep sense of phrasing, and superb technical skills make him one of the most unique voices in today's classical…

Tufts University presents violinist Joanna Kurkowicz and pianist Doris Stevenson performing Debussy's Violin Sonata, Chausson’s Poeme, Ysaye’s Reve D’enfant, and Faure’s Apres un Reve, alongside lesser known works by Penderecki, Kurtág, and Kreisler. Free; no tickets required.

The Somerville Museum presents its first Faith in a City concert showcasing a selection of local religious music. The concert will feature original jazz by Mina Cho, contemporary music director of Somerville Community Baptist Church, featuring church member and drummer George Lernis, bassist Manos Stratis and the Gugak Jazz Society; musicians of Gurdwara Sikh Sangat Boston performing Sikh devotional music known as kirtan; and Wylsner Bastien, lead pianist at Sion Seventh Day Adventist Church, presenting jazz interpretations of traditional gospel songs and…

The Tufts University Sunday Concert Series continues with a performance of Japanese jazz and classical chamber music with koto, shamisen, and shakuhachi. Featuring Sumie Kaneko, Ralph Samuelson, and Ayakano Cathleen Read. Free; no tickets required.

The Tufts University Music Department invites you to ease into autumn with "How to Fall Slowly," a varied program of new works by Tufts Composers — students, faculty, and alumni. Free; no tickets required

The Tufts University New at Noon series begins the 2019-2020 season with the concert "How to Finish." How do pieces of music end? Whimpers? Screams? Static? Tufts Composers will provide possible answers with new chamber works. Free; no tickets required.  

Tufts University continues its Sunday Concert Series with the Tufts Wind Ensemble presenting the program "Mid-Century Modern." The post-World War II era saw music for bands take off as a group of young American composers wrote pieces for schools, colleges, and professional groups that continue to be the heart of the repertoire today. The Tufts Wind Ensemble, directed by John McCann, will perform a collection of these works by Walter Piston, Vincent Persichetti, William Schuman and Howard Hanson. Free; no…

Tufts University presents The Either/Orchestra, one of New England's premier jazz ensembles, with special guest Teshome Mitiku. Led by saxophonist/composer Russ Gershon, the 10-piece, horn-heavy group is known for its wide-ranging vision of jazz, often incorporating pop, Latin and Ethiopian music in fresh ways. Teshome Mitiku was among the 1960s generation of Ethiopian singers who helped create a new music in that country, synthesizing American influences with traditional Ethiopian sounds. His band, the Soul Ekos, were among the biggest stars…

The Tufts University Department of Music presents tenor Charles Blandy and pianist Linda Osborn performing Schubert’s final collection of songs, "Schwanengesang" (“Swan song”). Schubert’s settings of the poet Rellstab are bracing and brooding, and the Heine settings are bitterly ironic, even terrifying. Also on the program is Rodney Lister’s "Ordinary Heartbreaks," songs set to poems by Michael Blumenthal, which find sweetness within ethical, intellectual, and musical quandaries. Free; no tickets required.  

Undergraduate and graduate composers at Tufts University start a new month with some novel musical audacity. Featuring music by Tufts Composers Yasaman Ghodsi, Samuel Graber-Hahn, Jacquelyn Hazle, Mark Bolan Konigsmark, Max Luo, Caleb Martin-Rosenthal, Julia Moss and Charlotte Nanteza.  With guest performers Emmanuel Feldman, cello; Jessica Fulkerson, flute; Anna Griffis, viola; Lilit Hartunian, violin; and members of the Into the Light Ensemble. Free; no tickets required.

Tufts University student Iverson Eliopoulos, a Medford High graduate, presents a recital of cello music by Robert Schumann, with pianist Yuan Wang. The program: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 Cello Concerto, Op. 129 Free; no tickets required.

Pianist and composer Joel LaRue Smith presents, "Pasajes: An Afro Latin Musical Odyssey," a concert of original Latin Jazz compositions. The complexity and profundity of Latin American music illustrates its significant relation to jazz and music of the African diaspora. In bringing Afro Latin Jazz to Tufts, Smith -- a faculty member and director of the Tufts Jazz Orchestra -- attempts to establish a social context of the contributions that this music has made on influencing the landscape of popular…

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.  

Tufts University continues its New at Noon concert series with "How to Let Things Fall Apart" (... and not put them back together). Tufts Composers present music highlighting unexpected approaches to structure. Featuring new compositions by Dan Berkowitz, Jeannette Chechile, Andrew Daetz, Tucker Donelan, Wen Gao, Yasaman Ghodsi, Niki Glensiter, Seungyoon Kim, Kyra Link, Lucas Loaiza, Charlotte Nanteza, Stephanie Rifkin and Joseph Rondeau. Free; no tickets required.  

The Tufts University Sunday Concert Series features the Tufts Concert Choir and Chamber Singers performing their fall concert, "On a Darkling Plain," with Jamie Kirsch, conductor, and Thomas Stumpf, pianist. The program will feature J.S. Bach (BWV 196, "Der Herr denket an uns") and Dominick Argento (Dover Beach Revisited) plus works of Sacks, DiOrio, Bernstein and more. Free; no tickets required.

Tufts Youth Philharmonic presents its fall concert under the direction of John Page. TYP will be perform American in Paris (Gershwin), Symphony No. 5, 1st movement (Beethoven), Star Wars Medley (Williams) and Barber of Seville overture (Rossini). Free; no tickets required.

The Tufts University Early Music Ensemble, under director Jane Hershey, presents the concert "Misterios y pastorelas—Christmas Music from Old and New Spain." The joy of Christmas was especially celebrated by both indigenous and colonial musicians in the 16th and 17th century in the Spanish colonies of the New World. The Early Music Ensemble  will present Christmas "villancicos" by the Spanish master Francisco Guerrero, Franco-Flemish works widely performed in the new world, works from New Spain by Juan de Araujo, and from the…

The Tufts Symphony Orchestra presents its fall concert under the direction of John Page. The concert program will feature Slavonic Dance No. 1, Op. 46, by Antonín Dvořák; Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64, with Tufts faculty member Sarita Uranovsky as soloist; and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, Op. 47. Free; no tickets required.

Tufts University students present works for strings, winds, brass, and piano. Free; no tickets required.

Tufts University guest artist and double bass virtuoso Robert Black presents a recital featuring Philip Glass’s "The Not Doings of an Insomniac," commissioned by Black. Betwixt each of its seven parts, Black recites poetry by Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono, David Byrne, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith and Arthur Russell. In addition, Black spotlights several works written for him by Tufts composers alongside an improvised dialogue with guest bassist Andrew Blickendorfer. Free; no tickets required. This concert is made possible by…

The Jumbo Knish Factory at Tufts University, directed by Michael McLaughlin, presents a concert of Jewish music with special guest dance leader Malka Benjamin. Free; no tickets required.

The New Music Ensemble at Tufts University, directed by Donald Berman, performs "The Music Box Sessions" -- pieces for music box by Stockhausen, McDonald, Brahms, Petty, Sur, Bartók, Stravinsky, Schubert, and members of the New Music Ensemble. Free; no tickets required.

Attah Poku leads Kiniwe, the African Music and Dance Ensemble of the Tufts University Music Department, in a performance of traditional music and dance from Ghana, featuring items of his own Ashanti heritage. Free; no tickets required.

The Tufts University Arab Music Ensemble explores and presents a concert of music from the Levant and Egypt, including folk songs and contemporary compositions. Naseem Alatrash, director. Free; no tickets required.

The Tufts Sunday Concert series presents the Tufts University Chamber Orchestra performing its fall concert under the direction of John Page. The program will feature Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances and Beethoven: Symphony No. 7. Free; no tickets required.

The Tufts University Flute Ensemble plays interesting, thought-provoking, and enjoyable music from the 17th to the 21st century performed on piccolo, C flute, alto, and bass flutes. Nina Barwell, director. Free; no tickets required.

Tufts University invites you to come join a night of holiday cheer, nostalgia, and music! Tufts graduate Aidan Scrimgeour, who initiated this concert in Medford in 2016, plays piano, Matt Estabrook returns on bass, and P.J. Holaday joins the trio on drums. They will play the entirety of the Vince Guaraldi Trio's album “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Admission to this event is free, but there is a suggested donation of $5 to $10, with all proceeds going to Operation Warm,…

Tufts University invites you to come join a night of holiday cheer, nostalgia, and music! Tufts graduate Aidan Scrimgeour, who initiated this concert in Medford in 2016, plays piano, Matt Estabrook returns on bass, and P.J. Holaday joins the trio on drums. They will play the entirety of the Vince Guaraldi Trio's album “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Admission to this event is free, but there is a suggested donation of $5 to $10, with all proceeds going to Operation Warm,…

Students in the Community Music Program at Tufts University perform their winter concert. Free; no tickets required. Additional Community Music Program concerts will take place on January 17 and 18. The Community Music Program at Tufts offers a wide range of music classes for children, teenagers, and adults, as well as the Tufts Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. For more information, visit the Community Music web page.  

Participants in the Adult Chamber Music Workshop and Adult Voice Class, part of the Tufts Community Music Program, perform a concert of chamber music as the culmination of their semester of study. Free; no tickets required. The Community Music Program at Tufts offers a wide range of music classes for children, teenagers, and adults, as well as the Tufts Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. For more information, visit the Community Music web page.    

Students in the Tufts Community Music Program, from elementary through high school ages, perform their winter concerts at 10:45 a.m., noon, 1:45 p.m., and 3:30 p.m. The 3:30 concert will include the debut of the brand new Tufts Children’s Choir. Free; no tickets required. The Community Music Program at Tufts offers a wide range of music classes for children, teenagers, and adults, as well as the Tufts Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. For more information, visit the Community Music web page.  

In the first Tufts University Sunday Concert of 2020, Daniel Acsadi (guitar) and Meghan Jacoby (flute) will explore music composed at the intersections of classical and traditional repertoire. Selections include Beaser’s "Mountain Songs," Bartók’s "Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs," Portuguese "Fado," and Assad’s "Three Balkan Dances." Free; no tickets required.  

Tufts Youth Philharmonic presents a benefit concert under the direction of John Page. It will feature performances by each section, the runner-up of the Concerto Competition, and faculty coaches. Tickets are $10 each or $25 per family. The Tufts Youth Philharmonic is part of  the Community Music Program at Tufts University, which offers a wide range of music classes for children, teenagers, and adults. For more information, visit the Community Music web page.  

The Tufts University Department of Music presents the Hinge Ensemble: Philipp Stäudlin (saxophones), Matt Sharrock (percussion), Keith Kirchoff (piano/keyboards) and Dan VanHassel (electric guitar). Featuring interactive video, deconstructed pop music, and heavy metal chamber music, sound and spectacle unite in this multimedia-focused program reflecting our oversaturated, out-of-control media environment. Including world premieres by Tufts student Wen Gao and Dan VanHassel, along with works by Igor C. Silva, Chaya Czernowin and Sam Pluta. Free; no tickets required.

The Tufts University Sunday Concert series presents Sea Smoke: Music of the American Traditions, Dronally Reimagined. With electric cello, drums, dobro, guitar and voice, this quintet of creative improvisors offers an Indian-inspired perspective on original compositions and songs by Harold Arlen, Grace Slick, Ornette Coleman, John Lee Hooker and Pete Seeger. Featuring Medford resident Warren Senders, voice; Vijaya Sundaram, voice and guitar; Lloyd Thayer, dobro; Junko Fujiwara, cello; and Jerome Deupree, drums. Free; no tickets required.  

Join violist Scott Woolweaver and friends as they celebrate Scott's 30 years on the Tufts University Music faculty. The program will feature works of Telemann, Walter Piston, Howard Frazin, and the premiere of Cambridge composer Graham Gordon Ramsay's Concertino for Viola and Piano. Free; no tickets required.  

The sumptuous and regal aesthetic of the French Baroque is exemplified in works by Philidor, Marais, Boismortier, and Jacquet de la Guerre. Featuring Tufts Early Music faculty Héloïse Degrugillier, flute; Jane Hershey, viola da gamba; and Frances Conover Fitch, harpsichord. Free; no tickets required.

The Tufts University Opera Ensemble premieres two new operas by Tufts faculty member and Opera Ensemble co-director Thomas Stumpf. "The Nightingale and the Rose" and "The Happy Prince," both based on stories by Oscar Wilde, will be directed by Carol Mastrodomenico and performed with a chamber orchestra conducted by Tufts student and Medford High graduate Iverson Eliopoulos. Free; no tickets required. This performance will be offered again at 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 16.

The Tufts University Opera Ensemble presents two new operas by Tufts faculty member and Opera Ensemble co-director Thomas Stumpf. "The Nightingale and the Rose" and "The Happy Prince," both based on stories by Oscar Wilde, will be directed by Carol Mastrodomenico and performed with a chamber orchestra conducted by Tufts student and Medford High graduate Iverson Eliopoulos. Free; no tickets required.

New York-based pianist and composer Jason Yeager presents music from his newest album, "New Songs of Resistance" (Outside in Music), which features electrifying arrangements of classic nueva canción repertoire from Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, as well as original compositions that speak to the troubling socio-cultural moment we are living through. His chamber-jazz ensemble features some of the top musicians in the Boston area, including several Berklee and Tufts faculty, such as Grammy winner Mark Walker, drums; Fernando Huergo, bass; Naseem…

The New at Noon Concert Series at Tufts University continues with a program of new musical recipes sweet, savory, and otherwise by undergraduate and graduate composers. Free; no tickets required.

The Russian and Slavic Student Association at Tufts University presents its spring concert. Free; no tickets required.

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; no tickets required.  

The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents "Music from the Heart of Europe" with the Tufts Wind Ensemble. Directed by John McCann, the ensemble will perform Central European wind works from the 19th and 20th centuries by Dvořák, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Hindemith, and Janáček. Free; no tickets required.

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…

Due to precautions regarding the coronavirus, tonight's performance by the Amernet String Quartet at Tufts University has been canceled.  

Due to the closure of the Tufts University campus because of the coronavirus outbreak, the Tufts Department of Music's Tufts Composers concert has been canceled, along with all Tufts music events through April 30.

Due to the closure of the Tufts University campus because of the coronavirus outbreak, this New Music Ensemble concert has been canceled, along with all Tufts Department of Music events through April 30.  

Due to the closure of the Tufts University campus because of the coronavirus outbreak, this Sunday Concert featuring the Tufts Concert Choir and Chamber Singers has been canceled, along with all Tufts Department of Music events through April 30.  

The Tufts University Chamber Orchestra, directed by John Page, is presenting mini-concerts on select Tuesdays and Thursdays this fall, streamed live from Distler Performance Hall. This program features works by W.A. Mozart and Joseph Bologne de St. Georges. Virtual event link: https://as.tufts.edu/music/events/liveStreaming.  

The Tufts University Chamber Orchestra, directed by John Page, is presenting mini-concerts on select Tuesdays and Thursdays this fall, streamed live from Distler Performance Hall. This program features works by Josef Suk (Serenade for Strings in E-flat major, Op. 6) and Florence Price (String Quartet no. 2 in A minor). Watch via the Tufts Music Live Streaming web page: https://as.tufts.edu/music/events/liveStreaming.  

The Tufts University Chamber Orchestra, directed by John Page, is presenting mini-concerts on select Tuesdays and Thursdays this fall, streamed live from Distler Performance Hall. This program features works by Benjamin Britten ("Simple Symphony," 1934) and George Walker (Lyric for Strings," 1946). Watch via the Tufts Music Live Streaming web page: https://as.tufts.edu/music/events/liveStreaming.