Soloists & Piano

Great artists give free concerts at New England Conservatory—simply because they teach here.

Other opportunities to experience knockout performances by solo instrumentalists include concertos on most of our orchestral concerts, and other special programming.

2012–2013 season

2013-05-22 Thomas Oesterling
2013-05-23 Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
2013-05-24 Larry Bell + Sam Ou
2013-05-24 Emmanuel Feldman
2013-05-26 Sarah Takagi
2013-06-02 Hindemith: Trio, op. 47, for Heckelphone, viola and piano
2013-06-09 Jin-Kyung Joen

2013–2014 season

Some initial concert dates are in, watch for additional information throughout the summer. New solo recitals, concerto solos, and masterclasses and lectures on solo performance enter the schedule throughout the year, often at very short notice. For updates, bookmark this page, signup for NEC e-mail news, follow us at twitter.com/nec_concerts, or become a fan of facebook.com/necmusic.

2013-09-16 Erica Washburn
2013-09-29 Russell Sherman
2013-10-21 Gabriel Chodos
2013-10-27 Frank Carlberg
2013-10-29 Music of Cogan and Escot
2013-10-30 Fred Hersch
2013-11-03 Hung-Kuan Chen
2013-11-25 Stephen Lange + Jason Snider
2013-11-25 Weilerstein Trio
2013-11-26 Michael Meraw
2014-01-15 Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek
2014-01-16 Stephen Drury
2014-01-22 Borromeo String Quartet: Bartók manuscripts
2014-01-26 Borromeo String Quartet: complete Bartók quartets
2014-02-02 Tanya Kalmanovitch
2014-02-17 Kenneth Radnofsky
2014-02-24 Kim Kashkashian
2014-03-02 Borromeo String Quartet with student guest artists
2014-03-04 Trio Cleonice
2014-03-25 James Buswell
2014-03-27 Robert Labaree
2014-03-30 Natasha Brofsky

Past Performances

2012-09-07 Piano Seminar: Bruce Brubaker
2012-09-14 Piano Seminar: A. Ramon Rivera
2012-09-17 Dvořák + Chausson
2012-09-21 Piano Seminar: Entrepreneurial Musicianship
2012-09-24 John Gibbons
2012-09-25 Satoko Fuji masterclass
2012-09-27 Jason Moran + Dave Holland masterclass
2012-09-30 Victor Rosenbaum
2012-09-30 Jisun Oh
2012-10-01 Debussy, Bach, and Von Weber
2012-10-02 Norman Bolter
2012-10-03 Jennifer Sgroe
2012-10-04 Soloists of Callithumpian Consort
2012-10-05 Piano Seminar: Tim Page
2012-10-07 Music of Villa-Lobos
2012-10-08 Trio Cleonice
2012-10-09 Cage + Ellington
2012-10-12 Piano Seminar: Steven Mayer
2012-10-14 From the Top
2012-10-15 The Music of Ken Schaphorst
2012-10-16 Jones, Van Nostrand, Weiss
2012-10-19 Piano Seminar: John McDonald
2012-10-21 James Buswell
2012-10-22 Alexander Korsantia
2012-10-23 New works for solo instruments by NEC student composers
2012-10-24 Mozart Concerto No. 22
2012-10-26 Piano Seminar: John Cage in Boston and Cambridge
2012-10-27 Ran Blake: A Life in Music
2012-10-28 Wha Kyung Byun/Russell Sherman
2012-10-30 Music of Cogan, Escot, Sessions
2012-11-01 Dmitri Murrath
2012-11-02 Piano Seminar: Yves Henry
2012-11-03 Midori masterclass
2012-11-06 Gabriel Chodos
2012-11-07 Imaginary Landscapes of John Cage
2012-11-08 Balch + Grime
2012-11-09 Piano Seminar: Mark Knoop
2012-11-13 Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques
2012-11-16 Piano Seminar: Jason Moran
2012-11-17 Carol Ou
2012-11-18 Osmon: Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Percussion
2012-11-20 Weilerstein Family
2012-11-29 Trio Cleonice
2012-11-30 Piano Seminar: Alexander Korsantia
2012-11-30 Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano masterclass
2012-12-01 Sangyoung Kim
2012-12-03 Bartok + Franck
2012-12-03 Brahms + Weber
2012-12-04 Mozart: Piano Quartet in G Minor
2012-12-07 Piano Seminar: Hung-Kuan Chen
2012-12-07 Duo Sonatas
2012-12-08 Sonata Evening
2012-12-09 Loeffler: Deux Rhapsodies for Clarinet, Oboe and Piano
2012-12-09 Brahms: Piano Quintet
2012-12-12 Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
2012-12-12 Gwen Krosnick + Emely Phelps
2012-12-13 Dvorak + Brahms
2012-12-13 Arensky: Piano Trio in D Minor
2013-01-14 Randall Hodgkinson
2013-01-16 Continuing Education Piano Interpretation and Performance Recital
2013-01-18 Piano Seminar: Aleksandar Madzar masterclass
2013-01-19 Mana Tokuno
2013-01-25 Piano Seminar: Andrew Rangell
2013-01-28 jazz faculty spotlight
2013-01-30 Verdi + Wagner for Piano
2013-02-03 Hui Weng on guzheng at Boston Children's Museum
2013-02-03 Fredericka King
2013-02-04 Hindemith: Piano Music
2013-02-06 Anthony Coleman + The Damaged Quartet: Seven Words
2013-02-07 Hung-Kuan Chen
2013-02-08 Piano Seminar: Catherine Kautsky
2013-02-10 Stephen Drury
2013-02-13 Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2 with Yandi Chen
2013-02-18 Kenneth Radnofsky
2013-02-19 From Third Stream to Contemporary Improvisation
2013-02-25 Misha Namirovsky
2013-02-26 Husa: Concerto + Concertino
2013-02-26 Sussman: Theme and Variations
2013-02-27 Dominique Eade + Ran Blake at Scullers
2013-02-28 Soyoung Park, soprano
2013-03-01 Piano Seminar: Gila Goldstein
2013-03-01 Jeremy Denk masterclass
2013-03-03 Jacob Maxin Memorial
2013-03-06 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
2013-03-07 Katz, Lee, Stoltzman, Swensen
2013-03-08 Piano Seminar: Tomoko Mukaiyama
2013-03-08 Xiang Yu (at Old South Meeting House)
2013-03-11 Walton: Viola Concerto
2013-03-12 Fred Hersch
2013-03-13 Morse Mastercalss: Jonathan Biss
2013-03-13 Berwald: Konzertstücke
2013-03-15 Piano Seminar: Conor Hanick
2013-03-17 Susanne Friedrich
2013-03-17 Jacqueline DeVoe
2013-03-26 Laurence Lesser
2013-03-27 Jaime Korkos, mezzo-soprano
2013-03-28 Kim Kashkashian, Jordan Hall
2013-03-29 Piano Seminar: Roundtable discussion with NEC piano faculty
2013-03-31 Music of Sciarrino
2013-04-02 New works for solo instruments by NEC student composers
2013-04-05 Piano Seminar: Anthony Coleman
2013-04-05 Russell Sherman, Bruce Brubaker conversation
2013-04-08 Monk/Webern
2013-04-09 music of Elliott Carter
2013-04-12 Piano Seminar: James Parakilas
2013-04-14 Ginastera: Harp Concerto, Gandolfi: The Nature of Light
2013-04-16 Launy Grøndahl: Concerto for Trombone and Band
2013-04-17 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27
2013-04-18 Randy Weston: African Rhythms
2013-04-19 Russell Sherman masterclass
2013-04-20 Liesl Schoenberger
2013-04-21 Miriam Fried studio in unaccompanied works of Bach, Ysaÿe, and contemporaries, Pt. I
2013-04-22 Miriam Fried studio in unaccompanied works of Bach, Ysaÿe, and contemporaries, Pt. II
2013-04-23 Miriam Fried studio in unaccompanied works of Bach, Ysaÿe, and contemporaries, Pt. III
2013-04-25 The Marion Rubin Berman ’31 Piano Honors Competition and Concert: Beethoven piano sonatas
2013-04-28 Music Heals at Church of the Covenant
2013-05-01 Sonatas and Songs
2013-05-02 Advanced Collaborative Skills recital
2013-05-02 Faure + Dvorak
2013-05-02 Mozart + Beethoven
2013-05-02 Trio Auloi at the BPL
2013-05-04 Jin Uk Kim
2012-05-05 Music for solo instruments by Andreia Pinto-Correia
2013-05-06 Beethoven: Trio in B-flat Major
2013-05-08 Sonata Class Recital
2013-05-08 Reinecke: Trio for Oboe, Horn and Piano in A Minor, op. 188
2013-05-08 Pinto-Correia: Lápis (Pencils) for solo bass trombone
2013-05-09 Renaissance Class Recital
2013-05-09 Fellowship Piano Quintet at the BPL
2013-05-12 David Kim
2013-05-14 Trio Auloi
2013-05-18 Commencement Concert

2013-05-21