Donal Fox
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Background
Donal Fox is an internationally acclaimed classical and jazz composer, improviser and pianist. He received early training at the New England Conservatory of Music and then at Berklee College of Music in the summer of 1968. He also studied at Tanglewood Music Center, where he wrote classical music and performed jazz and classical piano in the presence of Leonard Bernstein and Gunther Schuller.
Interests
Throughout his two years as an MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT, Fox taught musical improvisation (21M.335), in keeping with his goal to “revive the tradition of improvisation that characterized the performance of great composers of the past, Bach, Mozart, Liszt, and many others, but that is rare today.”
In addition to teaching, Fox performed as a guest artist with MIT’s Festival Jazz Ensemble and premiered the work Peace Out for Improvised Piano and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
News Items
The Fruits of Diversity
MLK Scholar Donal Fox discusses how his work dissolves boundaries on an MIT panel.
May, Mbiti, and Fox are MLK Visiting Scholars for 2010-11
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes three MLK Visiting Professors.
MIT welcomes 8 MLK visiting professors and scholars
Scholars’ diverse backgrounds enhance MIT community, research and teaching.
Standing ovation at Carnegie Hall for MLK Visiting Scholar Donal Fox
World premiere of his concerto "Peace Out."
Fusion is not only happening in labs at MIT
Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Artist Donal Fox teaches MIT students to bridge musical genres.