Keeril Makan
Keeril Makan is an American composer who grew up in New Jersey and trained first as a violinist. He studied composition and religion at Oberlin, took a PhD at UC Berkeley, and spent time in Helsinki on a Fulbright grant and in Paris. He is professor of music composition at MIT, where he is also vice provost for the arts. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Luciano Berio Rome Prize. His works include the opera Persona, after Bergman, with a libretto by Jay Scheib. His CDs are In Sound (Tzadik), Target (Starkland) and Afterglow (Mode).
Keeril Makan is an American composer who grew up in New Jersey and trained first as a violinist. He studied composition and religion at Oberlin, took a PhD at UC Berkeley, and spent time in Helsinki on a Fulbright grant and in Paris. He is professor of music composition at MIT, where he is also vice provost for the arts. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Luciano Berio Rome Prize. His works include the opera Persona, after Bergman, with a libretto by Jay Scheib. His CDs are In Sound (Tzadik), Target (Starkland) and Afterglow (Mode).
