Tuesday Night New Music is a student-run concert series that offers the opportunity to hear music by the next generation of composers. The series is directed by Stellan Connelly Bettany (BM’25) & Peter Butler (BM‘26) under the supervision of composition chair Michael Gandolfi.

Founded by Lee Hyla in the early 90s, Tuesday Night New Music is funded in part this season by a grant from the New England Conservatory Entrepreneurial Musicianship Department.

Boston-based composer Michael Gandolfi has a broad range of musical interests encompassing not only contemporary concert music but also jazz, blues and rock, by which route he first became a musician. The span of his musical investigation is paralleled by his cultural curiosity, resulting in many points of contact between the world of music and other disciplines, including science, film, and theater.

Mr. Gandolfi has received commissions from the Atlanta Symphony, the Fromm Foundation, Boston Musica Viva, Speculum Musicae, and the Koussevitzky Foundation, among many others.

In addition to fulfilling commissions, Mr. Gandolfi also teaches– currently acting as chair of the Composition Department at the New England Conservatory of Music and a faculty member at the Tanglewood Music Center.