Contemporary Musical Arts

Each year, an audition committee of professional musicians and faculty selects a few exceptional student ensembles to represent the NEC Honors Ensemble Program. The ensembles work with a faculty coach...

NEC's CMA department salutes two great voices of the 20th century, Chris Connor and Mahalia Jackson.  This program is curated by Hankus Netsky and Ran Blake. 

The title of this year’s Valentine’s Day...

Faculty members from Jazz Studies and Contemporary Musical Arts present a wide-ranging program that highlights the breadth and depth of the departments with a diverse range of music.

The year 1923 was pivotal in music history. In a concert titled simply 1923, NEC’s Contemporary Musical Arts Department looks at how, one hundred years ago, music engaged with world events...

NEC kicks off the year with a live concert featuring faculty of the Contemporary Musical Arts department, with music from Persian, Appalachian, Middle Eastern, African, and Jewish traditions as well...

New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts Program shines a spotlight on alumni with Live at the Burren on Saturday, June 17. The evening begins at 7 p.m. with a performance by the Lucy...

Vocalist and accordionist Matthew Shifrin ’21, ’23 MM presents his one-man show, My Grandma’s Mind is Like an Ocean, on May 14 at 7:30pm in Williams Hall. The original show features music in English...

The NEC Wind Ensembles are first in line when given a chance to celebrate music-making across disciplines. This concert, originally held on February 14, 2023, brings together musicians of the Wind...

"Cantastoria" is a street theater form championed by Bread and Puppet that involves the narration of pictures using song, movement, text and puppetry. The word "canta-storia" comes from Italian (“sung...