Performance

Performance programming in MIT Music offers all students—whether graduate or undergraduate—vocal and instrumental opportunities in the areas of classical, jazz, and world music.

Opportunities include the MIT Symphony Orchestra, the MIT Wind Ensemble, the MIT Chamber Chorus, the MIT Concert Choir, the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, the MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble, a Balinese gamelan ensemble (MIrah Tangi), a Senegalese drumming ensemble (Rambax MIT), and the MIT Laptop Ensemble (FaMLE). Additionally, the MIT Chamber Music Society offers expert coaching and performance opportunities in small, classical instrument/voice ensembles in addition to jazz combos. Each of these performance groups are led by our select faculty of renowned performers, coaches, and musical directors and can be taken for academic credit if desired.

If you are interested in private vocal or instrumental study with a Boston-area master teacher, you are encouraged to audition for the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study, which grants financial assistance to enrolled MIT students for private music lessons. If you wish to take private music lessons outside of this program, please contact us (mta-request@mit.edu) so that a member of our faculty might help pair you with an appropriate instructor.

For the experienced soloist, MIT Symphony Orchestra sponsors a Concerto Competition that awards the opportunity to perform with the orchestra during one of its often well-attended concerts.

Pianists at MIT may try out for orchestral parts, audition for the Concerto Competition, participate in chamber music, audition for the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study, and perform solo recitals as part of that program.

They may also collaborate as vocal or instrumental accompanists via 21M.451 Collaborative Piano under the guidance of Director of Keyboard Studies, Mi-Eun Kim. In addition, pianists may audition for admission into the 21M.410 Vocal Repertoire and Performance subject offered each spring.