Orchestras

The reviews are in

The Boston Musical Intelligencer, "a virtual journal and blog of the classical music scene in Boston," has quickly established itself as the go-to source for reviews of Boston concerts. They frequently attend NEC orchestral concerts, and here's the report card.

2011-10-07 "interesting mixture of delicay and virility … clean-cut, rousing playing"
2011-09-28 "dramatic moments were all well earned"
2011-05-07 "equal to many a professional ensemble"
2011-02-19 "the cadenzas were dynamite"
2011-02-10 "glory, precision, and light-footedness"
2011-02-06 "the world needs talent like this"
2010-10-22 "completely in sympathy with Brahms's aims"
2010-09-29 "a most blissful space"

The Boston Globe rarely reviews school concerts, but NEC's Mahler Unleashed project got their attention.

2011-09-29 "as thrilling as any performance on record"

Orchestras: young people to young professionals

New England Conservatory's College and Preparatory programs offer orchestra concerts virtually every week of the year.

In the College, which trains adults who are on the brink of careers with professional orchestras, Hugh Wolff launches his fourth year as NEC's Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Director of Orchestras, and personally conducts many of the NEC Philharmonia's concerts. David Loebel begins his second season as Associate Director of Orchestras, and conducts most of the NEC Symphony Orchestra's season. Donald Palma coaches the conductorless NEC Chamber Orchestra.

Spearheading the Preparatory School's seven-tiered system are its senior orchestras, the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and Youth Symphony.

Upcoming performances

For the most up to date information on NEC's orchestra concerts, bookmark this page, signup for NEC e-mail news, or follow us at twitter.com/NEC_concerts. You may also follow some of NEC's Preparatory orchestras at Facebook—search by name of orchestra.

2012-02-08 NEC Philharmonic + Wolff
2012-02-15 NEC Chamber Orchestra
2012-03-07 NEC Philharmonia + Loebel
2012-04-11 NEC Symphony + Loebel
2012-04-18 NEC Philharmonia + Wolff
2012-04-25 NEC Chamber Orchestra
2012-05-04 NEC Lab Orchestra + student conductors
2012-05-19 NEC Commencement Concert
2012-05-24 NEC Youth Symphony + Karidoyanes
2012-05-31 NEC Youth Repertory Orchestra, String Chamber Orchestra
2012-06-01 NEC Youth Philharmonic Orchestra

Past performances

Many of NEC's orchestra concerts are posted to our InstantEncore channel for streaming and downloads. Become a fan of our channel to receive notifications of new tracks and other music news.

2011-09-26 NEC Philharmonia + Wolff
2011-09-28 Stefan Asbury colloquium
2011-10-05 NEC Symphony + Loebel
2011-10-12 NEC Philharmonia + Tortelier
2011-10-19 NEC Chamber Orchestra
2011-10-26 NEC Philharmonia + Lehninger
2011-11-02 NEC Philharmonia + Wolff
2011-11-09 NEC Symphony + Loebel
2011-11-14 NEC Youth Symphony + Karidoyanes
2011-11-16 NEC Philharmonia + Biss
2011-11-17 NEC Chamber Orchestra
2011-11-18 NEC Lab Orchestra + student conductors
2011-11-29 Mahler in Chinatown
2011-11-30 NEC Symphony + Wolff
2011-12-07 NEC Philharmonia + Loebel
2011-12-20 NEC Youth Repertory Orchestra, String Chamber Orchestra
2012-01-20 NEC Youth Philharmonic Orchestra
2012-01-28 NEC Junior Repertory Orchestra + Youth Repertory Orchestra
2012-02-01 NEC Symphony + Loebel

NEC's programs for orchestral musicians

• Explore College orchestras at NEC
• Explore NEC's graduate program in Orchestral Conducting
• Explore Preparatory orchestras at NEC
• Explore NEC's summer Festival Youth Orchestra

2012-02-07