Tufts Composers Concert Series is an outgrowth of two composition courses: Music 118 and 119, Contemporary Composition (Seminar) and Composition Practicum. These advanced, project-based courses open to both graduate and undergraduate students assume musical fluency, familiarity with forms of notation, and a practical level of performance experience in a variety of styles and techniques.
If your interest is to create your own musical work, and/or to play new music by your peers and colleagues, then please consider Tufts Composers as your possible outlet. Our Fall 2019 concert schedule appears below. Contact Professor and Composer/Pianist John McDonald for more information. john.mcdonald@tufts.edu
Fall 2019 Tufts Composers Events: All at Distler Hall, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
Tuesday September 24, 2019 at 8 pm, — Guest Ensemble!
Ludovico Ensemble: Rhythm and Myth (Music by J Aylward; M Salkind-Pearl; J Werntz)
Wednesday October 16, 2019 at 8 pm
How to Fall Slowly. Ease into Autumn with a varied program of new works by Tufts Composers— students, faculty, and alumni. With music by Samuel Graber-Hahn, Jacquelyn Hazle, Mark Bolan Konigsmark, guest composer Ryan Vigil (Tufts MA 2004), and others.
Friday October 25, 2019 at 12 pm
New @ Noon #1: How To Finish. How do pieces of music end? Whimpers? Screams? Static? Tufts Composers provide possible answers with new chamber works.
Monday November 4, 2019 at 8 pm
Nova November. Undergraduate and graduate Tufts Composers start a new month with some novel musical audacity.
Friday November 15, 2019 at 12 pm
New @ Noon #2: How To Let Things Fall Apart. And not put them back together. Music by Tufts Composers highlighting unexpected approaches to structure
Tuesday December 3, 2019 at 8 pm
ROBERT BLACK, Guest Artist and Double Bass Virtuoso, presents Insomniac Do’s and Don’t’s, a recital featuring Philip Glass’s The Not Doings of an Insomniac, commissioned by Black. Betwixt each of its 7 parts, Black recites poetry by Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono, David Byrne, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, and Arthur Russell. Featuring several works made for Black by Tufts Composers alongside an improvised dialogue with guest bassist Andrew Blickendorfer.