Various Locations
Music concentrators and secondaries from the Harvard Department of Music are involved in all aspects of ARTS FIRST 2024, but particularly the ARTS FIRST Performance Fair taking place on Saturday, April 27.
The performances listed below will include students form the Harvard Department of Music, the Harvard-NEC Dual Degree Program, and/or the Harvard-Berklee Joint Studies Program. Click on the event links below to learn more!
ARTS FIRST Performance Fair
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Harvard Pops Orchestra
1:00pm-1:20pm, Sanders Theatre
Brian Ham ’25
Skye Park ’24
Harvard-NEC Chamber Music Recital
1:00pm-1:20pm, Memorial Church
Cal Alexander ’27 (NEC)
Lucas Amory ’24 (NEC)
Joshua Cai ’24 (NEC)
Saman De Silva ’26 (NEC)
Catherine Deskur ’24 (NEC)
Felicia He ’24 (NEC)
Veronica Li ’26 (NEC)
Reade Park ’27 (NEC)
William Tan ’27 (NEC)
Moshi Tang ’27 (NEC)
Lia Zheng ’27 (NEC)
Radcliffe Pitches
1:00pm-1:20pm,Yard Stage
Elizabeth Bennett ’26
Brendon Lau ’26 & Harvey Lin ’26
1:30pm-1:50pm, Harvard Art Museums Calderwood Courtyard
Brendon Lau ’26
Harvey Lin ’26
Glee Club Lite
1:30pm-1:50pm, Mass Ave. Stage
Chris Lapop Salazar ’25
Harvard College Piano Society
1:30pm-1:50pm, Memorial Church
Clara Chen ’25
Hasty Pudding Theatricals
1:30pm-1:50pm, Plaza Tent
Sophie Garrigus ’25 (Berklee)
Emma Rogers ’25 (Berklee)
Veritones
1:40pm-2:00pm, Yard Stage
Brady Billingsley ’26 (Berklee)
Damla Yesil ’26 (Berklee)
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2:00pm-2:20pm, Plaza Tent
Caitlin Beirne ’24 (Berklee)
Roseanne Strategos ’25
Catherine Deskur ’24 & Ethan Chaves ’26
2:00pm-2:20pm, Adolphus Busch Hall
Ethan Chaves ’26 (NEC)
Catherine Deskur ’24 (NEC)
Charles Revival
2:00pm-2:20pm, Holden Chapel
Emil Massad ’25
Mitchell Sharum ’25 (Berklee)
Kalman Strauss ’25 (Berklee)
Harvard College Opera
2:00pm-2:20pm, Sanders Theatre
Saman De Silva ’26 (NEC)
Yizhe Sun ’25
Dacha Thurber ’25
On Thin Ice
2:00pm-2:20pm, Mass Ave Stage
Sophie Garrigus ’25 (Berklee)
Music 189 Chamber Ensembles Performance
2:00pm-3:20pm, Harvard Art Museums Calderwood Courtyard
Cal Alexander ’27 (NEC)
Joshua Cai ’24 (NEC)
Roshen Chatwal ’24 (NEC)
Felicia He ’24 (NEC)
Elizabeth Jones ’27 (NEC)
Sidney Lee ’26 (NEC)
Harvey Lin ’26
Veronica Li ’26 (NEC)
Enoch Li ’26 (NEC)
Chelsie Lim ’26 (NEC)
Emma Manigat ’25 (Berklee)
Dacha Thurber ’25
Eugene Ye ’25 (NEC)
ApiChorus
2:30pm-2:50pm, Paine Hall
Zachary Buller ’26
Stryk9
2:30pm-2:50pm, Holden Chapel
Ethan Ocasio ’25
Yard Bops
2:30pm-2:50pm, Plaza Tent
Matt Chen ’26 (Berklee)
Brian Cheng ’24 (Berklee)
Harry Epstein ’25
Raghav Mehrota ’26 (Berklee)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
3:00pm-3:20pm, Memorial Church
Catherine Deskur ’24 (NEC)
Amy Hwang ’26 (NEC)
Sidney Lee ’26 (NEC)
Enoch Li ’26 (NEC)
Harvey Lin ’26
Dylan Wu ’26 (NEC)
Din & Tonics
3:00pm-3:20pm, Plaza Tent
Carolyn Hao ’26 (Berklee)
Shannon Harrington ’26 (Berklee)
Sean Teo Ong ’25
Harvard Wind Ensemble
3:00pm-3:20pm, Sanders Theatre
Albert Yao ’24 (Berklee)
Reade Park ’27
3:00pm-3:20pm, Adolphus Busch Hall
Reade Park ’27 (NEC)
Jilly and the Jam
3:20pm-3:40pm, Holden Chapel
Roseanne Strategos ’25
Cambridge Common Voices
3:30pm-3:50pm, Sanders Theatre
Aarya Kaushik, ’24
Isabella Meyer ’24
Carnival of the Animals
3:30pm-3:50pm, Paine Hall
Lucas Amory ’24 (NEC)
Catherine Deskur ’24 (NEC)
Olympia Hatzilambrou ’24
Skye Park ’24
AJ Yi, ’25
Lowell House Opera
3:30pm-3:50pm, Harvard Art Museums Calderwood Courtyard
Benjamin T. Rossen ’23
VoxJazz
3:30pm-3:50pm, Adolphus Busch Hall
Carolyn Hao ’26 (Berklee)
Rick Zhou ’25 (Berklee)
Harvard Asian American Dance Troupe (AADT)
3:30pm-4:50pm, Plaza Tent
Clara Chen ’25
Kate Vandermel ’25
3:40pm-4:00pm, Holden Chapel
Zeb Jewell-Alibhai ’27 (Berklee)
Kate Vandermel ’25
Brattle Street Chamber Players
4:00pm-4:20pm, Adolphus Busch Hall
Cal Alexander ’27 (NEC)
Brendon Lau ’26
Callbacks
4:00pm-4:20pm, Yard Stage
Joe Bradley ’25
Gabe Mehra ’25
Phoebe Tian ’27 (Berklee)
Harvard University Choir
4:00pm-4:20pm, Memorial Church
Lucas Amory ’24 (NEC)
Elizabeth Bennett ’26
Dhruv Goel ’24
Carolyn Hao ’26 (Berklee)
Olympia Hatzilambrou
Isabella Meyer ’24
Isaac Newman ’25
Caitlin Paul ’25
Roseanne Strategos
AJ Yi ’25 ’25
Mozart Society Orchestra
4:00pm-4:20pm, Sanders Theatre
Zachary Buller ’26
Anika Christensen, ’26
Ben Hintzman ’24
Moshi Tang ’27 (NEC)
River Charles Ensemble
4:00pm-4:20pm, Paine Hall
Anika Christensen, ’26
Starry Guitarry
4:00pm-4:20pm, Sever Quad Stage
Brian Cheng ’24 (Berklee)
Williams*
4:00pm-4:20pm, Holden Chapel
Itamar Baz ’24 (Berklee)
Williams Goldsmith ’26 (Berklee)
Bach Society Orchestra
4:30pm-4:50pm, Sanders Theatre
Lucas Amory ’24 (NEC)
Bradford Dickson ’27 (Berklee)
Enoch Li ’26 (NEC)
Crimson Cellos Jam Session
4:30pm-4:50pm, Harvard Art Museums Calderwood Courtyard
Zachary Buller ’26
Isaac Newman ’25
William Tan ’27 (NEC)
Friction & Flowers
4:30pm-4:50pm, Holden Chapel
Ethan Ocasio ’25
Mercedes Ferreira-Dias ’24
4:30pm-4:50pm, Sever Quad Stage
Mercedes Ferreira-Dias ’24 (Berklee)
Opportunes
4:30pm-4:50pm, Yard Stage
Soren James ’27 (Berklee)
Dessa Kavrakis ’27 (Berklee)
Esper Murray ’27
Jazz on the Plaza: Musical Conversations Across the River
Friday, April 27, 5:30pm
Plaza Tent
Groove to a knock-out collaboration with two outstanding ensembles from both sides of the Charles! Enjoy Harvard Jazz Orchestra, led by Grammy-nominated sax player Yosvany Terry, and Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice Band, led by Grammy-winning drummer and composer Terri Lyne Carrington. Both band leaders will perform as well.
This event will be livestreamed on the HarvardArts YouTube channel.