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Greetings, members of the Harvard Club of Long Island! On Wednesday, May 6, 7 pm-9 pm, at NYC’s Symphony Space (95th and Broadway), Chad Cannon will give a performance of Music for the Ocean, followed by a short ocean science panel with Dr. Juli Berwald (author of Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs), Tiff Duong (ocean storyteller and Tela Coral co-founder), Richard Vevers (subject of Netflix's Chasing Coral; founder, The Ocean Agency; and Director, Room 71, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - WHOI), and Dr Tali Vardi (Executive Director, CRC - Coral Restoration Consortium).
Chad Cannon Bio:
Composer-violinist Chad Cannon (Harvard AB 2011, Juilliard MM 2013)'s work can be heard in the Oscar-winning Netflix documentary, American Factory, the BAFTA-winning PlayStation hits Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yotei, and the Peabody-winning HBO film Night is Not Eternal. He was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy for his score for Exposing Muybridge, featuring Gary Oldman, and has received 7 International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) nominations, including for PBS' Harbor from the Holocaust, with special guest performer Yo-Yo Ma. Fluent in Japanese, Chad works as a symphonic arranger for the globally celebrated composer Joe Hisaishi, of Studio Ghibli fame, and is currently preparing orchestrations for Hisaishi's upcoming Radio City and Hollywood Bowl shows in July and August 2026. Chad is also touring as a violinist with his new live show, Music for the Ocean, which is a multimedia experience designed to help audiences fall in love with the ocean and be inspired to take action to protect it. Chad is a U.S. Masters swimmer and lives in Pasadena, CA, with his wife Sarah Ngo (Harvard AB 2013), who works at The Nature Conservancy.
Tickets: $75-125, Buy Here. Harvard alumni can use the code "Harvard" for 25% off.
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