Robyn Smith plays trombone
Boston BEAM Kicks Off With A Community Celebration
Boston Bridge to Equity and Achievement in Music (BEAM) is a region‐wide collective for supporting and sustaining musical excellence among young musicians of underrepresented populations who aspire to careers in the classical music professions.
Artist rendering of Concert for One, which shows shipping containers where musicians can perform and people can listen
Alumna Rayna Yun Chou's "Concert for One" to Present 5,000 Concerts with Celebrity Series
The Boston Globe previews “Concert for One,” the idea of EM Grant winner Rayna Yun Chou ’15, ’17 MM and presented by Celebrity Series.
Performers take a bow in Jordan Hall while the audience stands and applauds
New England Conservatory Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Groundbreaking Jazz Department
Jazz50 celebration features concerts in Boston and NYC with distinguished faculty, alumni, and students performing.
Sean Gallagher Headshot
Music History Faculty Sean Gallagher Inducted to Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars
Gallagher is the first musician or music historian to be elected to the Society in its 52-year history.
Cody W. Forrest smiles at the camera.
Cody W. Forrest ’18 DMA Named Composer-In-Residence at Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra
Forrest studied with Kati Agócs and Malcolm Peyton while earning his DMA in Composition at NEC.
Stella Chen closes her eyes and lifts her bow from her violin
Stella Chen ’16 Harvard/NEC Wins Queen Elisabeth
Chen studied with Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried and completed the Harvard/NEC dual degree program.
Gonzalo Farias conducting and orchestra
Alumnus Gonzalo Farias Named Associate Conductor at Jacksonville Symphony
Farias earned three graduate degrees at NEC, studying piano performance with Wha-Kyung Byun and Russell Sherman.
Brenda Thordarson with family
A Master of Music at Age Sixty-Five
Brenda Yvette Twyner Thordarson ’19 MM returned to NEC after a 40-year absence and proudly completed her Master of Music degree.
CI Student Matthew Shifrin smiling
Matthew Shifrin ’21 Accepted into 2019 MassChallenge Boston
Matthew Shifrin ’21's Project Daredevil is an interdisciplinary project developing virtual reality for the blind: 3D radio-dramas with motion simulation and smell.