Back-to-School Contemporary Improvisation Concert

NEC's Contemporary Improvisation department offers a unique program that allows students to forge a distinctive, personal style of improvisation through rigorous aural training combined with an individually tailored course of study. Our program is one of the few places in the world where one can absorb and synthesize the music of other cultures in a personal and creative way.

On the eve of the first day of classes, CI faculty welcome students with this musical get-together, in which faculty perform a diverse repertoire of traditional, contemporary, and original music that is representative of their own ethos as performers and teachers. It's a chance to get a first look at the musicians who will be exploring topics ranging from Film Noir to Samuel Beckett in concerts this year.

Carla Kihlstedt original song with Matthias Bossi

Jerry Leake flamenco trio with Juanito Pascual, guitar, and Rohan Gregory, violin

Anthony Coleman solo piano

Eden MacAdam-Somer American Roots music

Tanya Kalmanovitch contemporary trio with Anthony Coleman and Ted Reichman

Joe Morris free improvisation with Yasmine Azaiez, violin, Junko Fujiwara, cello, Tanya Kalmanovitch, viola

Bert Seager original song with Jerry Leake

Peter Row North Indian classical music, alap on rudra vina

Linda Chase original music with Hankus Netsky