Called “America’s most wired composer” by The Los Angeles Times and a “musical visionary” by The New York Times, Tod Machover is recognized as one of today’s most innovative composers and musical pioneers. Musical America’s 2016 Composer of the Year, he is praised for creating music that breaks traditional artistic and cultural boundaries and developing technologies that expand music’s potential for everyone. Machover studied with Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School and was the first Director of Musical Research at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM in Paris. He is Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media and Director of the Opera of the Future Group at the MIT Media Lab. Machover is also Visiting Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by many of the world's most prestigious ensembles, opera houses and soloists on both sides of the Atlantic. Machover is especially known for his visionary and groundbreaking operas, beginning with VALIS in 1987, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick; a new production of the opera, starring Davóne Tines and directed by Jay Scheib, was recently presented at MIT. Overstory Overture, a prelude to a forthcoming full-scale opera based on Richard Powers’ The Overstory, premiered at Lincoln Center in 2023. Machover’s opera Death and the Powers (2010) was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize, and a new production of the highly acclaimed Schoenberg in Hollywood (2018) is to be presented in 2023 by the School of Music of the University of Hong Kong (Shenzen), China. As an inventor, Machover is known for creating Hyperinstruments (AI systems that extend a player’s expression), and the work done by Machover’s group at the Media Lab informed the popular video game Guitar Hero. Machover is also involved in developing a number of musical technologies and concepts with medical and wellbeing applications, and has an essay in the forthcoming Music and Mind, edited by Renee Fleming.

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Collaborative Composing: Sharing Authorship with People and AI

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

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Bat Out Of Hell

Liverpool Empire

It's time to start revving your engines as Jim Steinman's Bat Out Of Hell heads out on a brand new UK tour! This mega-musical extravaganza is based on Meat Loaf's iconic album of the same name and features over 20 of the supergroup's hits, including, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and "Heaven Can Wait". Bat Out Of Hell made its West End debut in 2018, where it took London audiences by storm, now it's your turn to have a slice of the action!

New Victoria Theatre

extravaganza is based on Meat Loaf's iconic album of the same name and features over 20 of the supergroup's hits, including, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and "Heaven Can Wait". Bat Out Of Hell made its West End debut in 2018, where it took London audiences by storm, now it's your turn to have a slice of the action!

Milton Keynes Theatre

It's time to start revving your engines as Jim Steinman's Bat Out Of Hell heads out on a brand new UK tour! This mega-musical extravaganza is based on Meat Loaf's iconic album of the same name and features over 20 of the supergroup's hits, including, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and "Heaven Can Wait". Bat Out Of Hell made its West End debut in 2018, where it took London audiences by storm, now it's your turn to have a slice of the action!

Full to the brim with enough pyrotechnics to keep any Meatloaf fan happy, Bat Out of Hell's tale takes us to a dystopian Manhattan where a Trump-like figure named Falco resides in his glittering tower. At the bottom live a group called The Lost, a bunch of rock and roll rebels who stopped aging at 18. In a whirlwind of shining chrome, spray-on jeans and Doc Martens, their leader Strat falls for his enemy's daughter, the innocent Raven, beginning a fantastic romance that sizzles and blooms through the unforgettable score.

Jay Scheib

Events

Upcoming events

20 - 25 Jan, 2025

Bat Out Of Hell · Liverpool Empire Theatre

5 - 10 May, 2025

Bat Out Of Hell · New Victoria Theatre

16 - 28 Jun, 2025

Bat Out Of Hell · Milton Keynes Theatre

18 - 23 Aug, 2025

Bat Out Of Hell · Sunderland Empire

1 - 13 Sep, 2025

Bat Out Of Hell · Bristol Hippodrome

Past events

Dec 6, 2023

Collaborative Composing: Sharing Authorship with People and AI · UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

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