# News and Events ## expand\_more ## Latest Department News [### Jordan R. Brown and Zehra Jabeen Shah 'Another Music Studies Is Possible: Centering Experiences of Graduate Labor from Members of Project Spectrum' ](/news/2026/05/jordan-r-brown-and-zehra-jabeen-shah-another-music-studies-possible-centering) May 26, 2026 Department of Music Graduate Students Jordan R. Brown and Zehra Jabeen Shah have recently published 'Another Music Studies Is Possible: Centering Experiences of Graduate Labor from Members of Project Spectrum ' in American Music Volume 43, Issue 1-2. For... ![American Music Volume 43 Issue 1-2 Cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/American%20Music%20Cover%20Image.png?itok=TbZGbRLs) [### FAS Current: 'Raghav Mehrotra: Finding his rhythm between classroom and stage' ](/news/2026/05/fas-current-raghav-mehrotra-finding-his-rhythm-between-classroom-and-stage) May 21, 2026 Department of Music concentrator and Harvard-Berklee Joint Studies Program student Raghav Mehrotra '26 was recently profiled by Eileen O'Grady for the FAS Current . Excerpt: At the start of his first semester, Raghav Mehrotra wasn’t sitting in class. He... ![Raghav Mehrotra playing drums in Holden Chapel](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Screenshot%202026-05-21%20at%202.30.42%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=1310a900&itok=NHA9BwVg) [### The New Yorker: 'Chaya Czernowin Gives Voice to a Wounded World' ](/news/2026/05/new-yorker-chaya-czernowin-gives-voice-wounded-world) May 20, 2026 Professor Chaya Czernowin was recently featured in an article by The New Yorker about her participation and works featured at the Witten Days for New Chamber Music festival. ![drawing of Chaya Czernowin](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Screenshot%202026-05-20%20at%209.54.29%E2%80%AFAM.png?h=1bef4aa8&itok=Fam2Nbhq) [### Professor Alejandro L. Madrid named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow ](/news/2026/05/professor-alejandro-l-madrid-named-walter-channing-cabot-fellow) May 13, 2026 Alejandro L. Madrid, the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, has been awarded the Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship. The fellowship is an annual prize honoring Harvard scholars for their contributions to the advancement of scholarship in the fields of... ![Alejandro L. Madrid](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/Alejandro%20L.%20Madrid.png?h=8745223f&itok=WNXuy5DC) [### Jordan R. Brown Publishes Chapter in 'The Oxford Handbook of Pop Music' ](/news/2026/05/jordan-r-brown-publishes-chapter-oxford-handbook-pop-music) May 08, 2026 Ethnomusicology graduate student Jordan R. Brown's chapter 'Queen Bey: The Sampling Historiographies behind the Icon' was recently published in The Oxford Handbook of Pop Music (2026, Oxford University Press). Abstract: The Oxford Handbook of Pop Music is... ![Oxford Handbook of Pop Music cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Screenshot%202026-05-08%20at%2012.19.57%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=9ad3b797&itok=4gvhZTnU) [### Harvard Office for the Arts Announces 2026 Arts Prize Winners ](/news/2026/04/harvard-office-arts-announces-2026-arts-prize-winners) April 23, 2026 The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announce the recipients of the annual undergraduate arts prizes for 2026. The awards, presented to more than 230... ![Top (from left): Paola Lee-Vega ’26, Carolyn Hao ’26, Bernardo Sequeria ’26, Texaco Texeira-Ramos ’26, Adam Bartholomew ’26, Joseph Foo ’26, Miranda Morales ’26, Elizabeth Bennett ’26, Kate LeBuhn ’26, Justin Levy ’26. Enoch Li ’26, Ethan Chaves ’26, Katherrin Billordo ‘26](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/2026%20OFA%20Arts%20Prize%20Recipients_0.jpeg?h=29c1f7e2&itok=5fBNABeG) ## Concert Series ### Blodgett Chamber Music Series The Blodgett Chamber Music Series produces several concerts each year featuring the Department’s artists-in-residence. These concerts are free and open to the public, and take place in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. The [Parker Quartet](http://www.parkerquartet.com/) currently perform the series. Formed in 2002, the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet have been hailed by the *New York Times* as “something extraordinary,” and the *Boston Globe* acclaims their “pinpoint precision and spectacular sense of urgency.” The quartet began touring on the international circuit after winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France. Chamber Music America awarded the quartet the prestigious biennial Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2009- 2011 seasons. ### The Fromm Players at Harvard The [Fromm Players at Harvard](https://frommfoundation.fas.harvard.edu/fromm-players-at-harvard) present a major concert or concert series each year dedicated to new music such as that of Cage, Martino, Kampela, Gompper, Davidovsky, Berio, Fedele, Ung, Sierra, Leon and many other composers working in the 20th and 21st centuries. The Fromm Players concerts seek to program works not normally heard in Boston. In 2010, for example, the concerts (curated by Joel Sachs and featuring New York’s internationally renowned ensemble CONTINUUM), explored the music of international composers working where cultures collide and fuse. Each year’s curator is different, and each year the concerts focus on a new area of work. In 2012 Harvard’s Hans Tutschku created a program of electroacoustic work performed by Boston Modern Orchestra Project; in 2016 Vijay Iyer curated a series of four concerts featuring Creative Music; and in 2019 Claire Chase curated a performance of Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine, a reworking of the music of Josephine Baker by Tyshawn Sorey. The concerts are sponsored by the Music Department and the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard. They are free and open to the public. ### Portrait Concerts and Special Events The Music Department also produces a number of concerts each year that showcase the work of a specific composer, performer, or theme. Most recently, in 2021, Claire Chase and the Harvard New Music Ensemble produced a portrait concert of composer George Lewis. For upcoming special concerts, please see our [Events Calendar](https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/department/music). ### Concerts Around Campus Music Department concerts represent only part of the concert schedule at Harvard. Student groups produce concerts, as do other academic departments, the Harvard museums, libraries, churches, student societies, and the Office for the Arts. There are musical events taking place on campus nearly every day during the academic year. To learn more about music events on campus, go to the [Harvard Box Office](http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice/). To see a listing of daily events at Harvard, go to the [Harvard Gazette Calendar](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/). To see a listing of all arts events on campus, go to the [Harvard Arts portal](http://arts.harvard.edu/). ## Past Events [### Elizabeth Margulis at Harvard Book Store ](/event/elizabeth-margulis-harvard-book-store?occ_id=0)July 1, 2026 | 7:00PM - 8:00PM EDT | Harvard Book Store In Person Harvard Book Store welcomes Elizabeth Margulis—Professor and Acting Chair of the Department of Music at Princeton University, where she directs the Music Cognition Lab—for a discussion of her new book, Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams... ![Elizabeth Margulis in conversation with Psyche Loui](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/elizabeth-margulis-harvard-book-store.png?h=8877afbe&itok=t_BEozyn) [### Farewell to Cambridge Concert ](/event/farewell-cambridge-concert?occ_id=0)May 24, 2026 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM EDT | Lowell Lecture Hall In Person ​Come wish the Radcliffe Choral Society well on their upcoming tour to Argentina and Uruguay, featuring music by Antonio Vivaldi, Camilo Matta, Sally Lamb McCune, Jussi Chydenius, Sarah Quartel and others. Visit the Harvard Choruses website for more... ![Radcliffe Choral Society performs in Paine Concert Hall](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Radcliffe%20Choral%20Society.jpg?itok=6iiwqxb2) [### ArtsThursdays - Bohemian Trio: New Chamber Music ](/event/artsthursdays-bohemian-trio-new-chamber-music?occ_id=0)May 21, 2026 | 7:00PM EDT | Lowell Lecture Hall In Person Free and open to the public The piano, cello, and saxophone of this New York-based trio bring the diverse sounds and rhythms of Cuba and the Americas to life in an original brand of new music. With roots in Cuba, Haiti, and the US, the Trio shifts... ![Yosvany Terry, Mitchell Lyon, and Orlando Alonso](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/IMG_0919.JPG.jpeg?h=7f86bbb9&itok=brx4Z7W2) [### Music 174R Final Showcase ](/event/music-174r-final-showcase?occ_id=0)May 11, 2026 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM EDT | Classroom 9, Music Building In Person The students of Music in the Recording Studio: Composers and Performers Developing Projects (Music 174R) will present their final recordings of original compositions/songs. Refreshments will be served. ![Music in the Recording Studio banner](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Screenshot%202025-09-24%20at%203.13.47%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=c86cdf3a&itok=Dl9LyVpi) [### Student Center Orchestra Spring Concert ](/event/student-center-orchestra-spring-concert?occ_id=0)May 10, 2026 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT | Paine Concert Hall In Person Join the Student Center Orchestra at Harvard Griffin GSAS for our spring concert as we perform the music of Alberto Ginastera, Francis Poulenc, Jean Sibelius, and Richard Wagner. This event is open to the public! Program: Richard Wagner: Vorspiel from Act... ![Student Center Orchestra Spring Concert](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Screenshot%202026-04-23%20at%2012.00.58%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=cfcf376c&itok=tsGI4DkV) [### Harvard Radcliffe Chorus: Spring Concert ](/event/harvard-radcliffe-chorus-spring-concert?occ_id=0)May 9, 2026 | 8:00PM - 10:00PM EDT | Sanders Theatre In Person America Sings 250 presents a trio of recent American compositions that draw inspiration from earlier American compositions and poetry. Alice Parker’s Melodious Accord rethinks tunes from an American hymnal; Stephen Paulus’s An American Medley reimagines a... ![Harvard Radcliffe Chorus America Sings Header](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/HRC-America-Sings-1175x400px.png?h=02262678&itok=iOAXOQx6) [### ArtsThursdays | Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith: 'Defiant Life' ](/event/artsthursdays-vijay-iyer-and-wadada-leo-smith-defiant-life?occ_id=0)May 7, 2026 | 7:00PM EDT | Paine Concert Hall In Person Composer-pianist Vijay Iyer and composer-trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith perform their duo creations, developed over 20 years of collaboration. ![Wadada Leo Smith (left) and Vijay Iyer (right)](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/900x600_vijay.jpg?h=d68262f7&itok=xnXJTxMl) [### Harvard Choruses: Holden Voice Program Spring Recital ](/event/harvard-choruses-holden-voice-program-spring-recital?occ_id=0)May 5, 2026 | 8:00PM - 10:00PM EDT | Holden Chapel In Person Visit the Harvard Choruses website for more information. ![An empty Paine Concert Hall stage with a piano on it](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-08/Default%20Event%20Thumbnail.png?h=35344c4a&itok=op33plW3) [### Music 189 Final Performance ](/event/music-189-final-performance-0?occ_id=0)May 5, 2026 | 7:00PM EDT | Paine Concert Hall In Person The students of Chamber Music Ensemble (Music 189) perform works from the classical music canon. Program Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8 Krystal Sun, violin Andrew Kim, cello Saehyun Kim, piano Edvard Grieg: String Quartet No. 1 in G... ![Music 189 Chamber Music Performances](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/189%20Stream%20Thumbnail.jpg?itok=CmPBFJMJ) [### Norton Lectures with Steve McQueen: Pulse | Lecture Six: "7th November" ](/event/norton-lectures-steve-mcqueen-pulse-lecture-six-7th-november?occ_id=0)May 5, 2026 | 6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT | Sanders Theatre In Person THE NORTON LECTURES 2025-26 Norton Professor of Poetry: Steve McQueen Discussant: Noam M. Elcott, Columbia University Featured Performer: Dom Flemons, Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist The 2025-26 Norton Lectures | Steve McQueen: Pulse Norton... ![Steve McQueen](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Norton%20Thumbnail%20Steve.jpg?itok=iSI-gI1V) [### Songs of Earth and Heaven: A Conducting Recital by Enoch Li ](/event/songs-earth-and-heaven-conducting-recital-enoch-li?occ_id=0)May 5, 2026 | 1:45PM EDT | Paine Concert Hall In Person Enoch Li '26, joined by musicians of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Bach Society Orchestra, presents a program featuring selections from Mozart's Serenade No. 10 "Gran Partita" and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. Free and open to all. No tickets... ![An empty Paine Concert Hall stage with a piano on it](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-08/Default%20Event%20Thumbnail.png?h=35344c4a&itok=op33plW3) [### Music 189 Final Performance ](/event/music-189-final-performance-1?occ_id=0)May 4, 2026 | 7:00PM EDT | Paine Concert Hall In Person The students of Chamber Music Ensemble (Music 189) perform works from the classical music canon. Program Jean-Michel Damase: Quartet for flute, oboe, clarinet, and piano Jean-Michel Damase Camille Saint-Saëns: Caprice sur des airs danois et russes, Op. 79... ![Music 189 Chamber Music Performances](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/189%20Stream%20Thumbnail.jpg?itok=CmPBFJMJ)