December 2022
Tufts New Music Ensemble: Another Creation Myth
The New Music Ensemble at Tufts University performs works that play with the idea(s) of creation, from music about the sun (including audio clips of the sun), minimalist pieces by Arvo Pärt ("Siegel am Spiegel"), Henryk Górecki, and Temidayo Balogun. Donald Berman directs. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also will be…
Find out more »Kiniwe
Attah Poku leads Kiniwe, the African Music and Dance Ensemble of the Tufts University Music Department, in a performance of music and dance from Ghana featuring Mohammed Alidu, Agbekor Drum and Dance Society, and New England Conservatory's Mile Norvisi ensemble. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also will be live streamed through Tufts Music…
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Things WE Learn in School
The Tufts University Department of Music's annual Family and Children's Concert will feature the Tufts Wind Ensemble joined by "Rainbow Jeff" Rawitsch for songs, fun, and a little educational experience. John McCann directs. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also will be live streamed through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Arab Music Ensemble
The Tufts University Arab Music Ensemble presents a selection of instrumental and vocal music that represents a wide range of genres within the Arab world. Naseem Alatrash directs. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also will be live streamed through 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. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also will be live streamed through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Music of Vince Guaraldi
Back by popular demand, pianist Aidan Scrimgeour, Tufts University class of 2017, leads a jazz trio in its sixth annual live performance of the classic Vince Guaraldi album, "A Charlie Brown Christmas." The trio features Matt Estabrook on upright bass and PJ Holaday on drums. Proceeds from donations at the event will again support Operation Warm, which provides winter clothing to children in need. The trio has raised nearly $1,000 in the past for Operation Warm.
Find out more »January 2023
Tufts Youth Philharmonic Benefit Concert
Members of the Tufts Youth Philharmonic perform a concert to benefit their program. John Page, director. Free admission; no tickets required. Donations to the Youth Philharmonic may be made throug the Tufts online giving portal. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also will be live streamed through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Les Caractères de la Danse
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents "Les Caractères de la Danse," music and dance from France's "Ancien Règime" and starring dancers Camilla Finlay and Ken Pierce. The program will feature ballroom and theater dances reconstructed from Beauchamps-Feuillet dance notation, as well as original choreography in period style. As music for solo dancers, the program will include a selection of Marin Marais' Couplets de Folies for viola da gamba and harpsichord, and arrangement of Jean-Fery Rebel's Caractères for Baroque flute, recorder,…
Find out more »February 2023
Tufts Sunday Concert: Brahms and the Schumanns
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents "Brahms and the Schumanns — A Liederabend with Poetry and Letters," a program of chamber music, poetry, and excerpts from the letters of Clara, Robert, and Johannes. With mezzo-soprano Kathleen Flynn, cellist Miriam Eckelhoefer, pianist Edith Auner, and actor Joy Lamberton Arcolano. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Bits and Pieces
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents "Bits and Pieces," with Sarita Uranovsky, violin, and Hisako Hiratsuka, piano, performing Schubert’s Sonatina No. 1 in D Major, Schnittke’s Suite in the Old Style, Brahms’s Sonatensatz, Wieniawski’s Legende, and Shostakovich’s Romance. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. The concert will be also be available for viewing…
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Musical Rainbows
For the first time in four years, the Tufts University Department of Music's Family and Children's Concert Series "Musical Rainbows" performance is back live at Distler Hall. "Listen to Lincoln," "Musical Megan" and "Rainbow Jeff" will lead classic singalong songs and originals for children, their parents, and the monsters under their beds! Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have…
Find out more »Leo Eguchi: Unaccompanied
The Tufts University Department of Music welcomes cellist Leo Eguchi performing “Unaccompanied,” featuring eight short new works by immigrant and first-generation American composers for solo cello. Inspired by his experience growing up in a mixed-race Japanese American family in the Midwest and questioning how he fit in the communities he inhabited, Eguchi commissioned composers whose own work draws from their unique immigrant and mixed-race experiences to answer the question, “What does your American-ness sound like?” Composers include James Diaz, Frank…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Anne Howarth – Transformation
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents horn player Anne Howarth in the program "Transformation — Musical Reimaginings," in which she will explore the power of change and the possibility of alteration. The program includes works by Poulenc, Knudson, Dunker, Lane and York. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also can be viewed…
Find out more »Thomas Stumpf: Late Brahms and Brand New
The Tufts University Department of Music presents staff pianist Thomas Stumpf in the program "Late Brahms and Brand New." The recital will feature selections from the late short piano pieces of Brahms, and the premieres of works by John McDonald, Kareem Roustom, and Stumpf, with guest artist Joanna Kurkowicz, violin. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been…
Find out more »March 2023
Tufts Chamber Orchestra Mini-Concert
The Tufts University Chamber Orchestra plays a mini-concert under the direction of John Page. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also can be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Piano Extravaganza: Four Pianists, Two Pianos
The Tufts University Department of Music presents a fun and eclectic program that explores the different sound worlds and possibilities of two pianos with four pianists. The program includes works by Mozart, Schumann, Ravel, Lavignac, Bolcom, Crumb and Stothart performed by Alice Chenyang Xu, Miles Fellenberg, Vivian Weilerstein and Seth Knopp. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated…
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. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also can be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Wind Ensemble Alumni Reunion Concert
Rescheduled from April 2020, the Tufts University Wind Ensemble invites all past members of TUWE, the Pep Band, and the Tufts Symphonic Band to Granoff Music Center for a day of rehearsing, performing, reconnecting with former classmates, and making new friends, culminating in a performance of music by Hayden Wood and Frank Ticheli. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they…
Find out more »Tufts Composers: L’Étoile Violin Duo and Jérôme Mouffe
The L'Étoile Violin Duo — Hsin-Lin Tsai and Miguel Pérez-Espejo, violins — with guest artist guitarist Jérôme Mouffe present a recital of works for violin and guitar in various combinations, as part of a residency with the Tufts Composition Department. Music by Benavides, Falla, Piazzolla, Shostakovich, Telemann and Turina. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert…
Find out more »Bach and Beyond Part 2
The Tufts University Department of Music presents violinist Joanna Kurkowicz performing Bach and Beyond Part 2. The program includes Bach’s Sonata No. 1 in G minor and the Partita in E major. As a bridge from Bach to the contemporary, Kurkowicz will perform world premieres inspired by Bach written by Zygmunt Krauze, Shirish Korde, Robert Groslot and Douglas Boyce. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or…
Find out more »April 2023
Tufts Sunday Concert: Harmonies of the Heart
The Tufts University Sunday concert series presents Join Armine Donato, piano, and guests for an afternoon of breathtaking chamber music by three groundbreaking composers: Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and Lera Auerbach. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted.
Find out more »Tufts Composers
Tufts Composers presents new works by Mofe Akinyanmi, Hunter Harville-Moxley, John McDonald, Katianna Nardone, Ben O'Toole, Stephanie Rifkin, Kevin Tang and Adam Xu. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also can be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Wind Ensemble
The Tufts University Wind Ensemble, under the direction of John McCann, digs deep into its library for a program of established masterworks and some lesser-known pieces by well known composers. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also can be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts New Music Ensemble: American Ledger No. 1
The New Music Ensemble at Tufts University, under the direction of Donald Berman, will perform a concert of music by Raven Chacon, Lena Raine, Ludovico Einaudi, and the NME. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also will be live streamed through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Choruses and Alumni
Jamie Kirsch leads the Tufts Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and alumni in a Tufts Sunday Concert Series performance of Mozart’s Requiem. Free; no tickets required. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also may be viewed through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Early Music Ensemble
The Tufts University Early Music Ensemble presents the program "Mellange de chansons," songs from the Le Roy and Ballard collection of 1572 for Renaissance consort. Music of love and springtime by van Wilder, Willaert, Le Jeune and others for recorders, violas da gamba, harps, harpsichord and voices. Jane Hershey, director. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated…
Find out more »Tufts Chamber Music
Tufts University students present works for strings, winds, piano and brass. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also can be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Kiniwe
Attah Poku leads Kiniwe, the African Music and Dance Ensemble of the Tufts University Music Department, in a performance of music and dance from Ghana featuring Agbekor Drum and Dance Society, and New England Conservatory's Mile Norvisi ensemble. Also featuring a special guest performance by Ghanaian percussionist Okyerema Asante, who is in Medford for a two-week residency with the TUMD. Free; no tickets required. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared…
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. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also can be viewed online 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. Music by Christensen, Piazolla, Cor de Bruijn, Coolen, Sorrentino, Beeftink, Tomasi, Tucker, Viitasaari. Nina Barwell, director. Nina Barwell, director. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also can be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Opera Ensemble: Three Operatic Morsels
The Tufts Opera Ensemble, under the direction of Carol Mastrodomenico and Thomas Stumpf, presents the first of two performances of the prize-winning one-act comic opera "An Embarrassing Position" (2010) by Boston composer Dan Shore. The delightful libretto is based on a short 1895 play by American author Kate Chopin. They will also perform "Bon Appetit" by Lee Hoiby, based on an episode of Julia Child's 1960 TV show “The French Chef,” and "Scrapbookers" by Leanna Kirchoff, with a libretto by…
Find out more »Tufts Opera Ensemble: Three Operatic Morsels
The Tufts Opera Ensemble, under the direction of Carol Mastrodomenico and Thomas Stumpf, presents the second of two performances of the prize-winning one-act comic opera "An Embarrassing Position" (2010) by Boston composer Dan Shore. The delightful libretto is based on a short 1895 play by American author Kate Chopin. They will also perform "Bon Appetit" by Lee Hoiby, based on an episode of Julia Child's 1960 TV show “The French Chef,” and "Scrapbookers" by Leanna Kirchoff, with a libretto by…
Find out more »Ensemble Faenza: Music of Life and Death in Early Modern France
The Tufts University Department of Music presents a performance by the French ensemble Faenza, a group that explores the music of the "ancien régime" – the political and social system of France before the Revolution of 1789. Faenza endeavors to rediscover the spirit rather than the letter, and focus on the relationship between the audience and the musicians. Faenza's performances result in interactive concert forms in which they connect with the audience by means of acting, storytelling and reciting, while…
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. It will feature Brahms's Symphony No. 2, Dvořák's Carnival Overture, and the first movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Concerto Competition winner Airi Matsushita. Free; no tickets required. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This…
Find out more »May 2023
Tufts Arab Music Ensemble
The Tufts University Arab Music Ensemble presents a selection of instrumental and vocal music representative of a wide range of genres within the Arab world. Naseem Alatrash, director. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also can be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Electronic Music Ensemble: Tubular Bells
The Tufts University Electronic Music Ensemble presents an eclectic mix of music from Bach to Rush performed on electronic instruments. Featuring the premiere of two new pieces by graduate student Rachel Shurland, and the epic title work by Mike Oldfield. Paul Lehrman, director. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also can…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Gamelan Ensemble
Gamelan Laras Tentrem and the Tufts University gamelan ensemble, Rinengga Sih Tentrem, perform a concert of Javanese gamelan music with special guest artists Heni Savitri, I.M. Harjito and Darsono Hadiraharjo. Barry Drummond, director. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also can be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Community Music Adult Chamber Concert
Students in the Tufts University Community Music Adult Chamber program perform works for small ensemble. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted. This concert also can be viewed online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Youth Philharmonic
The Tufts University Sunday Concert Series presents the Tufts Youth Philharmonic Orchestra performing its spring concert under the direction of John Page. The program will consist of works by Saint-Säens, featuring Kai Deshima, winner of the TYP Concerto Competition; Brahms, Marquez, Sibelius, and Toby Fox. Free; no tickets required. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated…
Find out more »Tufts Youth Philharmonic Auditions
The Tufts University Department of Music invites advanced middle school and high school students ages 13 and up to audition for the Tufts Youth Philharmonic for the 2023-24 school year. Applications are due one week prior to auditions and can be completed on the TYP website, which also has additional information about audition requirements. Led by conductor John Page with the support of seven sectional coaches, Tufts Youth Philharmonic nurtures every aspect of each member's development with individual attention and…
Find out more »September 2023
Simone Dinnerstein with Emmanuel Music
Following an immensely successful performance in June 2022, pianist Simone Dinnerstein returns to perform with Emmanuel Music at Tufts University's Distler Hall. Described by The New York Times as "an utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation," Dinnerstein will perform with Emmanuel Music conducted by Artistic Director Ryan Turner in three piano concertos: J.S. Bach's Keyboard Concerto in D Minor BWV 1052, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 467, and Philip Glass's "Tirol" Concerto for…
Find out more »Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #1: Why Write for Students?
The Tufts University Composers begin the fall semester series of New Sounds Now with "Why Write for Students"? In a bi-institutional exchange, 10 Tufts composers attempt to answer this question by fulfilling commissioned pair-ups — making new pieces specifically for Rivers School Conservatory students as part of the Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young. Free and open to the public with no tickets required. The program also will be viewable online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Celebrating Tufts Professor Emeritus David Locke
Join the Tufts University Music Department, distinguished guest performers and speakers for a daylong series of events marking Ethnomusicologist David Locke’s influential tenure. Take in an 11 a.m. roundtable marking Locke’s impact on African music studies and performance in the North American academy; a 1:45 p.m. hour of performances and testimonials; a 3:30 p.m. symposium on present and future challenges and opportunities in African music ensemble performance; and an 8 p.m. concert featuring Kiniwe, The Agbekor Drum and Dance Society…
Find out more »October 2023
Tufts Sunday Concert: The Renewal Series
The Tufts University Department of Music begins the 2023-24 Tufts Sunday Concert season with "The Renewal Series — Concerts in Dialogue with Art and Audience." This pioneering event strives to create a sense of community, connection, and belonging through interactive discussion-concerts. Featuring the world premiere of a new work by Tufts faculty composer Kareem Roustom for L’Étoile Violin Duo (Hsin-Lin Tsai and Miguel Pérez-Espejo) and a unique interactive discussion and performance of Schubert’s extraordinary Cello Quintet with guest violist Danny…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Wind Ensemble
The Tufts University Sunday Concert season presents the Tufts Wind Ensemble in a performance titled "Pax et Lux" (Peace and Light), the university's motto, which was adopted in 1857 and inspires this program. The repertoire includes Frank Ticheli's "Lux Perpetua" and David Maslanka's "Hymn for World Peace." TUWE will also present music written for Tufts College some 100 years ago. John McCann, director. Free and open to the public with no tickets required. This performance also may be viewed online…
Find out more »Tufts Composers: Might As Well, Now That We’re Back
Back from summer, back from sabbatical, alumni, grad students and undergrads back to the Tufts University campus, guest composers and performers return to the Distler Hall stage for the concert "Might As Well, Now That We're Back." Curated by John McDonald, this "variety evening" features myriad new works by guest composer Julia Werntz, faculty guest composer Stephan Pennington, faculty composer and alum Sid Richardson, alums Jason Coleman and Yasaman Ghodsi, and eight current students. This concert also can be viewed…
Find out more »Tufts Composers: New at Noon #1 – Who is Bob?
Tufts Composers begins a new season of New at Noon, one-hour collaborative dance/music events at Distler Hall. Who is Bob? Discover the answer and more by joining Tufts composers for this afternoon of unexpected musical partnerships. This concert may also be viewed online through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Joel LaRue Smith Jazz Trio
The Tufts University Department of Music's Family and Children's Concert Series welcomes the Joel LaRue Smith Trio for a performance titled "Testimony." Smith and guests performers Evan Palmer, bass, and Yoron Israel, drums, will provide an introduction for children and families to hear toe-tapping rhythms and melodies. They'll play the “blues,” “bosa nova,” “mambos,” and many more jazz-infused dances. This concert also may be viewed online through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »November 2023
Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #2: Book of February
Tufts University faculty composer Michael McLaughlin’s "Book of February" ignites new out-of-season response pieces by Tufts Composers in today's New Sounds Now series concert. Free to the public with no tickets required. The program also will be viewable online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »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 »Canceled: Tufts Sunday Concert: Jazz Divas & Women Who Rock
Due to unforeseen circumstances, today's Tufts Sunday Concert, "Jazz Divas & Women Who Rock," has been canceled.
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.
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