Concerts

2025-2026 Season

Art of Polymers at Cambridge Science Carnival
September 21st, 2-6pm
Kendall MIT Open Space

‭A family-friendly science extravaganza, Carnival is a beloved yearly highlight of the Cambridge STEAM calendar! Over 100 activity booths, demonstrations, live music, and installations, including the ever-popular Robot Petting Zoo, come together for one day. Carnival is a STEAM-themed adventure playground for inquisitive visitors of all ages. We can't wait to see you there and celebrate our diverse, creative community together!

Multiverse: Art of Polymers returns to explore the development of the next generation of smart and sustainable polymers to build our future.

Cellular Dance
November 20th, 7:30pm
Museum of Science, Boston

A multimedia ballet animating the motions of living cells through science, poetry, music, and dance.

Journey to the microscopic world of cells in a multimedia experience fusing dance, visuals and electro-symphonic music by Multiverse Concert Series—only at the Museum of Science Boston!

How do our cells navigate their worlds? How do they know to form the intricate structures of the body—and what happens when their signaling processes go wrong? Explore these questions and more with Multiverse Concert Series as we take you on a journey from the heart of a single cell and its inner symbiosis, through its struggle to survive in a harsh microbial world, and the delicate dance of the tissues within a developing embryo.

Choreographer Meg Anderson and her ensemble are joined by composer David Ibbett and pianist William Hume to perform an immersive ballet based on research of cell biologist Alexey Veraksa of UMass Boston Biology, exploring the science of cell signaling in the embryo, leading to treatments for developmental conditions such as spina bifida.

The performers are joined by thoracic surgeon Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang of Harvard Medical School, who works to understand individual risk factors in our cellular world and whose focus on lung cancer screening saves lives.

Choreographer: Meg Anderson
Composer and Electronics: David Ibbett
Dancers: Meg Anderson, Haley Day, Miranda Lawson, 
Pianist: William Hume
Research: Professor Alexey Veraksa, UMass Boston
Guest Speaker: Associate Professor Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang, Harvard Medical School

Black Hole Symphony with the New England Philharmonic
December 14th, 3:00pm
Tsai Performance Center, BU
685 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215

Guest Speaker: Shep Doeleman, Black Hole Initiative

Black Hole Symphony returns to Boston as a new symphonic experience in collaboration with the New England Philhamonic Orchestra. This revolutionary show is a unique collaboration between astrophysicists of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and Black Hole Initiative, animators from the Museum of Science, Boston. Composer David Ibbett has sonified (light->sound) the light of black hole galaxies as musical notes and chords, woven into a dramatic electro-symphonic score that reveals a hidden universe beyond the scope of our eyes,

Over the course of a concert, audiences are plunged into deep space riding relativistic jets of plasma, guided through the dense dust torus, broad-line clouds, and ultimately reach the blazing accretion disk on the event horizon of a supermassive black hole.

Octave of Light
Christa-McAuliffe Center
December 20th
3pm and 7:30pm

Octave of Light - an album of exoplanet music - returns to the Christa McAuliffe Center in an all-new immersive planetarium show!

Cecilia's Centennial Conference
January date TBA
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

2025 marks the centennial of  Stellar Atmospheres , Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin’s groundbreaking PhD dissertation—the first astronomy PhD awarded by Harvard, and a foundational text in astrophysics.

For her research, Payne-Gaposchkin drew on more than forty years of glass plate astronomical data from the Harvard College Observatory. Her work built upon and was enabled by a pioneering group of women astronomers who created, studied, and preserved this glass plate collection, initially funded by Anna Palmer Draper.

Join the Harvard Plate Stacks at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian for a week-long symposium celebrating this centennial, while exploring the interdisciplinary histories and futures of analog astrophotography. This gathering brings together researchers, artists, and practitioners whose work engages with glass plate archives and the often-overlooked histories of those who created and sustained them—including women and historically marginalized communities in science.

Reef Music
Harvard Science Center
February Date TBA

The plight of coral reefs is often overlooked. These beautiful ecosystems exist far from our everyday environments, but are suffering nonetheless from our continued use of fossil fuels and the resultant rising ocean temperatures and water acidification.

Reef Music is a collaboration between Multiverse and the Davies Marine Population Genomics Lab to celebrate the work of biologists around the world: striving to understand and safeguard coral populations in the face of climate change.

Quantum Concert
April Date TBA

With Guest Producer: Spencer Bambrick

Enter a space where science becomes sound, and music meets the mysteries of the universe. Quantum Concert is an immersive collaboration between the Multiverse Concert Series and Juventas New Music Ensemble - a groundbreaking fusion of art and science that invites you to experience the universe in an entirely new way.

Through live musical performances, immersive visuals, and illuminating talks from expert researchers, this one-of-a-kind experience transforms the complexity of quantum physics into something deeply human. Hear the echoes of wave-particle duality, sense the tension of the uncertainty principle, and witness the threads of entanglement that connect particles — and perhaps all of us — across time and space.

Each piece of music is more than a composition; it's a reflection of the cosmos at its most fundamental, where our everyday reality blurs and uncertainty reigns. You’ll journey through the strange terrain of superposition, glimpse the bleeding edge of quantum research, and emerge with a renewed sense of wonder — not just for science, but for the unseen world pulsing beneath our everyday lives.

Quantum Concert isn’t just a concert. It’s an invitation to listen differently, think deeper, and feel the awe of a universe, which is more mysterious and beautiful than we ever imagined.