Tod Machover, speaker (Pure Performance, Session IV) at FAST FORWARD: Imagining the Future, ISPA's 62nd Annual Congress, in New York City on January 12-14, 2010.  View the full Schedule of Events.

Tod Machover

Tod Machover, composer and inventor, is widely known for creating music that breaks traditional artistic and cultural boundaries. He is Professor of Music & Media and Director of the Opera of the Future Group at the renowned MIT Media Lab, and is also Visiting Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Machover’s music has been commissioned and performed by many of the world's most important performers and ensembles and has received numerous international prizes and awards, including the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French Culture Ministry. He received degrees from The Juilliard School in New York where he studied with Elliott Carter, and was the first Director of Musical Research at Pierre Boulez’s IRCAM institute in Paris. Machover is well known for designing new technologies for music. His Hyperinstruments augment musical expression for everyone, from virtuosi like Yo-Yo Ma to Guitar Hero, which grew out of his Lab. Machover’s most recent opera, Skellig, premiered last season at the Sage Gateshead, UK to critical acclaim, and his “robotic opera” Death and the Powers opens in Monte-Carlo in September 2010, and will tour the U.S. soon afterwards. A new CD of recent music for orchestra and electronics will be released on the Bridge label this Spring.