In the Mix

How do you like your improvised music?

Hot? Contemporary? Crazy? Smooth?

It's all here in the mix, with dozens of club-style sets each season, usually three different acts each night. Tonight the mix reveals the range of music explored and invented by our Contemporary Improvisation students.

These student ensembles are the club headliners of tomorrow—coached by leading jazz and improvising artists from the New England Conservatory faculty.

Survivors Breakfast is a shifting configuration of players that has "survived" several years of existence, and now appears on The End of Summer, Anthony Coleman's most recent CD with John Zorn's Tzadik label.

6:00pm set
Indian Ensemble
coached by Peter Row
Lukas Papenfusscline, voice
Abigale Reisman, violin
Rachel Panitch, violin
Ben Andrews, violin
Valerie Thompson, cello
Nima Mohammadi, oud
Mark Goldstein, guitar

7:00pm set
Jewish Ensemble
coached by Hankus Netsky
Alexander Monti, violin
Marnen Laibow-Koser, violin
Zoe Christiansen, clarinet
Jacob Means, mandolin
Ilya Portnov, harmonica
Hui Weng, guzheng
Daniel Pencer, clarinet, saxophone
Jeremiah Klarman, piano

8:00pm set
Survivors Breakfast
coached by Anthony Coleman
Sarah Jarosz, mandolin, voice
Abigale Reisman, violin
Allie Simpson, viola
Daniel Pencer, saxophone
Zoe Christiansen, clarinet, accordion
Jussi Reijonen, oud, guitar
Borey Shin, accordion
Joelle Wagner, bassoon
Mark Goldstein, trumpet
Nima Mohammadi, oud, kamancheh
Arian Shaffee, guitar
Simon Hanes, bass
Kiyoe Wellington, bass
Valerie Thompson, cello
Evan Allen, piano
Jeff Balter, drums, percussion
Andria Nicodemou, vibraphone, percussion

9:00pm set
Interdisciplinary Ensemble
coached by Linda Chase
Jinhee Jung, flute
Hui Weng, guzheng
Marnen Laibow-Koser, piano
Oliver Strasser, guitar
Dan Karp, bass