Presented by: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
This exhibition opens on January 25, 2016, and runs through January 30, 2016. 
Admission free and open to the public
Opening reception with Reiko Yamada and Vijay Iyer: Tuesday, January 26, 5:30-7 pm

Radcliffe Institute fellow Reiko Yamada, an independent composer and sound artist, created Reflective, a series of interactive sound art installations based on the aesthetic concept of imperfection in human life. It is an exploration of various media and interactive features to create a deeper engagement with the audience.

This installation is unique in that its material is drawn from recordings of the acclaimed jazz pianist, composer, and Harvard professor Vijay Iyer. The sound material, improvised and recorded in collaboration with Reiko Yamada, has been digitally processed and programmed specifically for the exhibition.... Read more about Reflective: An Exhibition by Reiko Yamada Featuring Vijay Iyer

AUDITIONS: Saturday, January 16 from 10a-12p in Holden Chapel in Harvard Yard

The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus holds auditions for new members of the undergraduate, graduate, and local communities each semester.

Auditions are short, and there is nothing you need to prepare in advance. There is also no need to sign up or indicate your interest before you arrive at auditions. Just come sing for us! The audition consists of a brief warm up exercise,...

Presented by: Learning From Performers
How to get tickets: Admission Free: No Tickets Required

A singer-songwriter with an eclectic style mixing a classical background with modern folk-pop influences, Gabriel Kahane will discuss his work during a conversation with Osnat Netzer, a composer, pianist and member of the Music faculty at Harvard. Kahane will also appear in concert with chamber ensemble Brooklyn Rider on Friday, February 5 at 8 pm at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre, presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston; for more information and tickets, visit the Celebrity Series online or call 617.482.6661.... Read more about a conversation with composer GABRIEL KAHANE

Exhibition dates: February 3-21, 2016
Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Hours: Galleries: 12–7, Wed–Sun
Free and open to the public

Performance + Reception

with Jill Johnson and Hans Tutschku
Wed, Feb 3, 6 pm
Reception to follow

On Feb 3, Jill Johnson, dancer, choreographer and Director of Dance at Harvard, and Hans Tutschku composer and Director of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, perform in response to the installation of Pneumatic Bodies. Free and open to the public. 

Pneuma(tic) Bodies is an installation of sculptures and photographs that explores the relationship shared by the human body, objects, and architectural space through the enveloping medium of air. Three large, balloon–like forms made of thin plastic material occupy considerable visual and physical areas on Level 1 of the Carpenter Center. The objects continuously inflate via small cooling ventilators typically used to regulate temperature in personal computers.... Read more about Performance with Jill Johnson and Hans Tutschku for "Silvia Benedito + C. Alexander Häusler: Pneuma(tic) Bodies"

DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THE MASTER CLASS WITH KELLI O'HARA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE REGRET ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY CAUSE. 

Presented By: Learning from Performers and Celebrity Series of Boston

Deemed “one of our greatest reinterpreters of musical standards” by New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley, Tony Award winner Kelli O’Hara will lead a master class for Harvard student vocalists. (Co-sponsored by the Celebrity Series of Boston, which will present O’Hara in concert at Sanders Theatre on Sunday, February 28 at 7 pm. For more information and tickets, visit the Celebrity Series online or call 617.482.6661.)

... Read more about CANCELED: a master class with KELLI O’HARA

Presented By: Learning from Performers and Celebrity Series of Boston
ADMISSION: Free (tickets or RSVPs not required)

An acclaimed alumna of Saturday Night Live and now a regular on Broadway and concert stages, actor/vocalist Ana Gasteyer will lead a master class for Harvard student performers. Co-sponsored by the Celebrity Series of Boston, which is presenting Gasteyer in concert at Sanders Theatre on Saturday, February 6 at 8 pm.... Read more about a master class with ANA GASTEYER

Presented by: Dunster House
Free and open to the public

Annual performance featuring Harvard student soloists, the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra, and guest conductor Edwin Jones.... Read more about 44th Annual Dunster House Messiah Sing

Presented by: Office of Career Services
For Harvard Undergraduates only. Please register through Crimson Careers.

Want to learn what it takes to succeed in the music industry? Join underground deep house and breakbeat techno musician and producer/DJ Justin Jay (dirtybird and Black Butter Records labels) and hear how he launched his music career from his dorm room at USC. Justin...

2016 Competition:

Open to Harvard undergraduate and graduate violists and cellists. All applicants must be available for the Parker Quartet's April 17 concert in Paine Hall (8pm) and for rehearsals with the Parker two weeks prior.
Applications due March 1, 2016. Finalists will be notified by the second week of March. Live audition callbacks will take place March 23 and 25, when finalists will be invited to play during a 20-minute rehearsal of the Tchaikovsky.

Introducing the first-ever Parker Quartet Guest Artist Award...

Presented by: Center for Public Leadership – Harvard Kennedy School

Free; Refreshments provided. RSVP required. Open to the Harvard community.

The current Creative Chair of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, John Adams is one of world's preeminent and most-performed contemporary composers. His works have been celebrated by every major orchestra in the United States as well as orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia; his historical and politically-rooted operas, including The Death of Klinghoffer and Nixon in China are among the most controversial and frequently-produced of any living composer.

Los Angles Philharmonic President and CEO Deborah Borda moderates a conversation in which Mr. Adams discusses his work and creative process.... Read more about The Creative Class: A Conversation with John Adams, Composer & Conductor, Moderated by Deborah Borda

Presented by: The Bok Center and the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT)
Admission free and open to the public

With a focus on learning and teaching, the multidisciplinary panel discussion explores embodied research practices that emerge out of, and often challenge, traditional views of how to derive understanding. For more info visit www.transgressknowledge.com

A multidisciplinary panel discussion featuring: