Climate Hope Concert
by Multiverse Concert Series
Saturday, april 20
LIVE performances at 7:00PM and 8:30pm
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CENTER AT FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY
About the Concert:
Performed in the Planetarium with stunning full dome visuals, Multiverse’s annual Climate Hope Concert interweaves music and science to tell immersive stories of regeneration: projects working to heal not just our atmosphere, but our biosphere and society as a whole.
Over the course of the show, musicians and scientists connect diverse threads together, exploring topics from sustainable polymers, coral reef restoration, urban regeneration projects and the regeneration of space, as a unifying source of wonder for our precious island earth.
We are excited to perform Climate Hope Concert in celebration of Framingham Earth Day!
Date: Saturday, April 20, 2024
Showtimes: 7:00pm and 8:30pm
Age Group: Recommended for ages 13+
Pricing: Age 13+ = $10
First, click on the “Registration” button on this page. Next, locate the date/time and name of this program from the list and click on its corresponding button.
about the musicians:
David Ibbett - Composer
David Ibbett, Ph.D., is an educator and musical advocate for science. Based in Boston, he directs the Multiverse Concert Series, a project that combines music and science in live performance. His lifelong passion for science began with his father, Dr. Roger Ibbett, who is a research chemist in Nottingham, UK.
David composes electrosymphonic music: a fusion of classical and electronic styles that interweaves influences from songs, symphonies, pop, rock and electronica. Musical strands are met with inspiration from the work of scientists: sonified data, musical metaphors for scientific concepts, and experimental sound and images from contemporary research.
Learn more at www.multiverseseries.org
Jason Davis - Bassist
Jason is a musician, environmental educator, and leader of the environmental sound and improvisation ensemble Earthsound. He teaches music and environmental studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In fall 2022 served as the Basler Cahir at East Tennessee State University. Jason holds a Doctorate in music from McGill University in Montreal and has Master's degrees in Music and Ecology. Jason is the director of Climate Stories Project, an educational and artistic forum for sharing personal stories about the changing climate.
Johnny Mok - Cellist
Johnny is a Boston-based Cellist, Freelancer, and Teacher, was born in Hong Kong, China. Mok performs regularly across the United States, and he is an active teacher and a highly sought-after cellist in the US. He was a prizewinner in several competitions including, CICA International Competition, Birmingham Music Club Scholarship Competition, and American String Teacher Association Music Competition in the Junior and Senior Division, etc. As a result of these achievements, Mok had appeared as soloist and featured cellist with orchestras and concert venues across the US.
Agnes Coakley-Cox - Soprano
Praised for her “enchanting, glowing timbre and perfect intonation, with a good helping of theatrical spirit” (Weiler Zeitung), British-American soprano Agnes Coakley Cox is a specialist in the performance of early Baroque music. Based in Boston, Agnes is the co-director of In Stile Moderno, an ensemble for seventeenth-century music, a member of the Choir of the Church of the Advent and has appeared recently with ensembles including The Thirteen, the Washington Bach Consort, Les Canards Chantants, and the Schola Cantorum of Boston. Her desire to bring early music to life has led Agnes to become an expert in the historical performance practice of singing, and she actively applies historical gesture, pronunciation, and ornamentation to her performances. After graduating summa cum laude in Music at Yale, Agnes studied voice, historical performance practice, and pedagogy at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, where her teacher and mentor was Evelyn Tubb.
ABOUT THE scientists:
The concert is interwoven with powerful presentations by scientists and activists.
Dr. Carsten Grupstra, Boston University - Postdoctoral Researcher, Marine Biologist
Carsten is a marine biologist who studies coral populations that live in naturally high-temperature lagoons in Palau, Micronesia. He uses experiments and genetics to study corals adapted to survive ocean temperatures as expected under future climate change conditions. Carsten got his PhD at Rice University in Houston, TX, where he studied how coral-infecting viruses and microorganisms in fish feces affect coral reef health in Mo’orea, French Polynesia. He received his BSc and MSc from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Dr. Jeremy Shakun, Boston College - Director of Undergraduate Studies, Paleoclimatologist
Jeremy is a paleoclimatologist who uses the geologic record to understand the behavior of the climate system on decadal to million-year time scales. Jeremy generates new reconstructions of climate change from glacier, cave, and marine deposits using various geochemical techniques as well as mine existing data to address central questions in paleoclimatology. Given the complexity and interdisciplinary nature of climate science, his research takes a broad and highly collaborative approach. Jeremy is keenly interested in effectively communicating science by providing a holistic perspective that links the detailed techniques and problems in earth science to the big-picture issues surrounding global change.
Dr. Isabel Varela Gutierrez, HEET - Director of Science, Geoscientist
Isabel is a geoscientist and joined HEET in 2023 as Director of Science for the Learning from the Ground Up (LeGUp) project at HEET. LeGUp is an ambitious research collaboration between a consortium of universities and two national labs that aims to study the impacts and scalability of networked ground-source heat pumps. Prior to joining HEET, Isabel worked for 14 years analyzing subsurface reservoirs in the oil and gas industry and more recently as a Research and Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. Isabel completed her BSc in Geophysical Engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela and her PhD in Geophysics from Edinburgh University. Recently, she completed a certificate in Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage from Colorado School of Mines, and is in the final stage of completing a Masters in Sustainability at Harvard.
First, click on the “Registration” button on this page. Next, locate the date/time and name of this program from the list and click on its corresponding button.
2023 Climate Hope Concert:
(left to right): David Ibbett (composer), Mike Block (cello), Athena Zhang (composer), Jessica Smith (flute), Megan Mayer (FSU), Aviva Leibert (FSU), Vandana Singh (FSU), Bob Chen (UMass Boston)
Post Concert Action Items
Parking
Information and parking passes will be sent to registered guests approximately one week prior to the event.
