04.30.26 | FACETS

Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 8 pm
Thomas Tull Concert Hall at MIT

KEERIL MAKAN - Madrigal for solo violin (2024)
GABRIELA ORTIZ - Puzzle-Tocas for wind quintet (2000)
SHAWN OKPEBHOLO - Wunlit for solo horn (2020)
ROBERT SCHUMANN - Piano Quartet, Op. 47 (1842)

Our season concludes back at MIT’s Tull Concert Hall with three contemporary gems and a Romantic masterwork. MIT faculty composer Keeril Makan shares a powerful meditation on the colorful Sanford Biggers sculpture, Madrigal, that greets us outside MIT’s new music building. The work cleverly takes advantage of the Hall’s unique configuration. Next, we present a wind quintet by the Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, Puzzle-Tocas, in which the instruments of the quintet continually transform in color and dynamic. Wunlit, a solo work for horn by the Nigerian-American composer Shawn Okpebholo, is inspired by the village of Wunlit in South Sudan, site of the 1999 Peace Conference. The concert - and season - concludes with Robert Schumann’s exquisite quartet for piano and strings, inspired by his wife, the composer Clara, who was the pianist at its premiere in 1844. 

Pictured: Keeril Makan (Adrianne Mathiowetz); Gabriela Ortiz (Hagen Hopkins); Shawn Okpebholo; Robert Schumann

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