Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
Presented to a graduating senior who has demonstrated excellence or the highest standards of proficiency in music, theater, painting, sculpture, design, architecture or film Emily R. Su ‘13

Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Award
Presented to students, either undergraduate or graduate, living groups, organizations or activities for outstanding achievement in and contributions to the arts at MIT
Noah Arbesfeld ‘13
Jean Sack ‘13
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Fred Harris, Music Director
Sam Heilbroner, Max Maybury, alto saxophones; Dylan Sherry, James Arana, tenor saxophones; Colleen Josephson, baritone saxophone; Ariel Wexler, Sarvesh Garimella, Daniel Goodman, Jakcob Dahl, Chris Kottke, trumpets; Molly Furlong, Ido Meshulam, Rodrigo Paniza, trombone; Kenneth McEnaney, bass trombone; Peter Godart, piano; Devon Rosner, guitar; Will Grathwohl, vibraphone; Adrian Grossman, Otto Briner, bass; Daniel Smithwick, drums; Otto Briner, percussion

MTA MUSIC AWARDS

The Endicott World Music Award
Presented in recognition of distinguished service and musical contribution to world music
Otto Briner ‘15

Gregory Tucker Memorial Prize
Presented in recognition of exceptional ability in composition, performance, or historical-cultural studies and overall contributions to the Music and Theater Arts Section
Amelia Carver ‘13
Chelsi Green ‘13

Everett Longstreth Jazz Award
Presented in recognition of distinguished service and musical contribution to the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Samuel P. Heilbroner ‘13
Devon J. Rosner ‘13
Ariel Wexler ‘13

Richard and Jody Nordlof Award
Presented in recognition of distinguished service and musical contribution to the MIT Wind Ensemble
Anirudh Arun ‘13
Emily Su ‘13

David Epstein Award
Presented in recognition of distinguished service and musical contribution to the MIT
Symphony Orchestra
Shelley Ackerman ‘13
Bridget Wall (G)

Philip Loew Memorial Award
Presented in recognition of creative accomplishment in music
Bryan Changala ‘13
Beth Hadley ‘ 15
Praveen Venkataramana ‘14
John Bowler ‘14

Ragnar and Margaret Naess Awards
Presented in Recognition of Outstanding Public Performances
Albert Wu ‘14, piano (Emerson Fellow)
Ryan Liu, piano (Emerson Fellow)
Daniel Manesh ’13 (Emerson Fellow)
Dylan Sherry (G), jazz sax (Emerson scholar)
Peter Godart ‘14, jazz piano (Emerson scholar)
Adrian Grossman ‘14, electric bass (Emerson scholar)

Ragnar and Margaret Naess Certificates of Distinction
Presented in recognition of outstanding performances
Benjamin Gunby ‘15, piano (Emerson scholar)
Yimin Chen ‘13, piano (Emerson scholar)
Elizabeth George (G), voice (Emerson scholar)
Vineet Gopal ‘13, flute (Emerson scholar)
Evan Lynch ‘13, cello (Emerson scholar)
Sae Kyoung Jang ‘13, cello (Emerson scholar)

Acknowledgement of Steadfast Commitment to Chamber Music Performance
Students are presented with a Membership to the AMPCP Chamber Music Network
Merritt Boyd ’13
Yimin Chen ’13
Queenie Chan ’13
Elizabeth Choe ’13
Russel Cohen ’13
Kyumin Lee ’13
Chung An Max Wu, ’13
Allison Lee ’13
Charles Hsu ‘13
John Chen ’13
Ari Umans, ’13
Emily Su, 13

MTA THEATER AWARDS

Edward S. Darna Award
Presented to graduating students who have demonstrated excellence in theater arts
and made a substantial contribution to the health of theater life on the MIT campus
Chinua Shaw ‘13
Cathy T. Zhang ‘13

Joseph D. Everingham Award
Presented to graduating students in recognition of a single creative accomplishment in
theater arts
HyoJeong Choi ‘13
Jaclyn Wilson ‘13

Tuesday, May 14 // 3pm-5pm // 21M.606 Introduction to Stagecraft: Final Performances
Thursday, May 16 // 3pm-5pm // 21M.606 Introduction to Stagecraft: Final Performances
Friday, May 17 // 2pm & 5pm // 21M.840 Performance Media: A dazzling new production of The Tower of Babel featuring Bridger Maxwell, Victor Rodriguez Gallego and Anthony Venegas.

BCMS Delivers Interesting and Offbeat
by Susan Miron

“The Boston Chamber Music Society has been in business for three decades because they are doing a huge amount right. Interesting, offbeat pieces keep turning up on their programs, and the core group of artists and guests remain very high-caliber.”

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The Boston Globe
May 14, 2013

Unity and rarity mark chamber concert
by Matthew Guerrieri

CAMBRIDGE — Chamber music is often analogized to a counterpoint of views, but Sunday’s Boston Chamber Music Society concert at Sanders Theatre presented a united front, so much so that when, near the beginning of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Op. 57 Piano Quintet, cellist (and BCMS founder) Ronald Thomas broke a string, one half expected the other players to follow suit. In approach and interpretation, the conversation was that of a like-minded gathering.

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Strings
May 9, 2013

Live from Montreal !
by Laurence Vittes

On May 9, as Montreal’s professional hockey Canadiens saw its season end in a one-sided defeat to rivals from Ottawa, two resplendent, overlapping musical events also took place in town: the 18th Montreal Chamber Music Festival and the 2013 edition of the Montreal International Violin Competition.

Before a nearly full house in St. George’s Anglican Church in downtown Montreal, the Chamber Music Festival kicked off its season with a concert that was as many layered as the music.

Making their first festival appearance, the Boston Chamber Music Society (BCMS) played Menotti’s Suite for Two Cello and Piano, Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet and Schubert’s Quintet D. 956.

The concert reflected the close bond between musicians in Montreal and Boston, especially poignant after the recent Boston bombings, and the enduring friendship between BCMS artistic director and violist Marcus Thompson and the festival’s founder and artistic director Denis Brott (they had been students together at Aspen 50 years ago).

Also, it was announced that the festival’s three weeks of concerts will be broadcast to U.S. audiences through American Public Media by Boston’s WGBH, and that the program will travel to Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre for BCMS’s season finale.

Menotti’s engaging, 15-minute Suite, highlighted by a gorgeous “Arioso,” was something special for Brott. It was written in 1973 for performance at the Spoleto Festival in Italy by Gregor Piatigorsky and his young Canadian student and assistant, Denis Brott.

On the music’s 40th anniversary, Brott took over the first chair and was joined by BCMS cellist Ron Thomas and pianist Mihae Lee.

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A belated Boston premiere for ‘Gatsby’
by Jeremy Eichler

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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
May 13, 2013

Pursuing Firzgerald by Brian Schuth

“In the opera, the emotional extremity is embodied in the orchestral writing, which is kaleidoscopic, almost wild, expressionistic, with romantic swooning, dissonant climaxes, shot through with masterful ventriloquisms of 1920s jazz songs. The songs emerge from radios or from the band at Gatsby’s parties, and Harbison does such an excellent job imitating the period that you’d be forgiven for thinking them quotations.  FULL REVIEW

Pablo Correa – Editor, El Espectador (Colombia), MIT Knight Science Journalism Program
“These Eyes Follow the Moon”
Filmed at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Peter McMurray – Doctoral student, Music Department, Harvard University
“Glass Band”
Filmed at the MIT Glass Lab

For more information contact Emily Richmond Pollock (pollock@mit.edu)
Presented in collaboration with MIT Music and Theater Arts, the MIT Glass Lab, and the Knight Science Journalism Program

Words and Music: A Conversation with Elena Ruehr by Reena Sastri
A graduate of the Julliard School and the University of Michigan, and a faculty member at MIT, Boston-based composer Elena Ruehr has created works for chamber ensemble, orchestra, chorus, wind ensemble, opera, dance and silent film. Rhythmically intricate and melodically graceful, her music has seductive surfaces which belie its complexity. I met with Elena Ruehr in January 2012 to discuss her recent cantata, Averno, based on Louise Glück’s 2006 volume of that name, and to learn more about setting poetry. The conversation took final shape in a subsequent exchange of emails, but grew out of a warm and animated exchange in the composer’s living room last winter.

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MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble and Vocal Jazz Ensemble recorded Chick Corea’s From Forever, Suite for Big Band, Harbison’s In Praise of MIT and Rhumba for Rafael Reif at the WGBH Fraser Studio with John Harbison, Frederick Harris, Keala Kaumeheiwa and Mark Harvey on 5/9/13.

MIT honors late band leader
Herb Pomeroy at moving
memorial concert

by Susan Saccoccia

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MITMIT honors late band leader Herb Pomeroy at moving memorial concert – See more at: http://www.baystatebanner.com/mit-bandleader-memorial-2013-05-02#sthash.OlQhPQWh.i8NnBrru.dpuf

Boston Musical Intelligencer
David Patterson

“With David Deveau, the Chamber Players elevated the Brahms Trio in A Minor, Opus 114 to indescribable eloquence.”

” I could have sat through yet another performance right there, on the spot.”

“It might be said that the four BSO string players, Martinson, Ansell, Eskin, and Barker, and the six BSO wind players, Rowe, Ferrillo, Hudgins, Svoboda, Sommerville, and Nordstrom, along with pianist David Deveau, fashioned a veritable tonal treasure trove as beautiful and moving as was April’s last Sunday in 2013.”

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Boston Classical Review
Keith Powers

“The players shared a genial interaction throughout, mimicking the quality of the interplay in the score.”

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