Ellen T. Harris to teach at The Juilliard School

Ellen T. Harris, Class of 1949 Professor of Music Emeritus will be teaching a graduate course on Handel at the Juilliard School.  A musicologist whose work focuses on Handel, Baroque opera, and vocal performance practice, her most recent book, George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends, earned her the Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography.  Ellen Harris is President of the American Musicological Society.

Ken Urban Wins 2024 Blue Ink Award

Congratulations to Ken Urban, winner of the 2024 Blue Ink Award for The Conquered.

Composing for 37 Years at MIT

In the intimate but acoustically reassuring Killian Hall, with the cooperation of Collage New Music, the Institute’s Music Department hosted an evening of Peter Child’s recent works.

MTA Associate Professor Emily Richmond Pollock Named 2024 MacVicar Fellow

Four outstanding undergraduate teachers and mentors have been named MacVicar Faculty Fellows: professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Karl Berggren, professor of political s

Play It Again, Spirio

A piano that captures the data of live performance offers the MIT community new possibilities for studying and experimenting with music