#  Keeril Makan 

 

 



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 Title: *The Noise Between Thoughts*  
Commission: 2002  
Completed: 2003  
Instrumentation: string quartet  
Premiere Location: Theatre de la Ville, Paris, France  
Premiere Ensemble: Kronos Quartet  
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Described by the *New Yorker* as “empowered by modern technology but haunted by a spirit of immemorial darkness,” and by the *New York Times* as “consistently stimulating,” the *Boston Globe* portrays Keeril Makan as a composer “whose music deserves to be more widely heard.” Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Luciano Berio Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, he has also received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Foundation, Meet the Composer, the Aaron Copland House, the Utah Arts Festival, the Fulbright Program, and ASCAP. His work has been commissioned by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, American Composers Orchestra, Harvard Musical Association, and Carnegie Hall, among others. His CDs, *In Sound* (Tzadik), *Target* (Starkland), and *Afterglow* (Mode) include performances by the Kronos Quartet, Either/Or, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. *Persona*, his opera, commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects and National Sawdust, is an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s classic film, with a libretto by Jay Scheib. Schott is publishing his compositions.

 Makan was raised in New Jersey by parents of South African Indian and Russian Jewish descent. After training as a violinist, he received degrees in composition and religion from Oberlin and completed his PhD in composition at the University of California–Berkeley, with additional studies in Helsinki and Paris. Makan makes his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is Associate Professor of Music at MIT.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Commission Date
    
     [2002](/commissiondate/2002)
- ## Completion Date
    
     [2003](/completiondate/2003)
- ## Composer
    
     [Makan, Keeril](/composer/makan-keeril)
- ## Commissions
    
     [Past Commissions](/pastcommisions)