This is your NEC! There are many ways to get active within the community. Take a chance and create your own lane, direct your experience and make this your home away from home.
Join an Organization
NEC has several active organizations registered with Student Activities. Organizations have specific requirements to uphold during the academic year. You will experience many of our orgs hosting signature events around campus and advocating for student concerns and needs. Check out our list to find a group you connect with!
Asian Student Association (ASA)
ASA is a relatively new organization run by and for Asian Pacific Islander students at NEC. Founded in 2018, each year, we host a series of cultural events and meetings to help our API students feel more at home. Our public events celebrate the heritages and cuisines (quite popular) of our home countries, while closed meetings offer a smaller space for API students to share and discuss their concerns, and find new ways of connecting the diverse student body at NEC!
While our shared passion for musical excellence provides common ground, at NEC, both international students and ethnic APIs born/raised in America face issues unique to the API experience in North America. In response, ASA events aim to strengthen our students' personal cultural identities, offer a chance for all of NEC to learn more about API cultures, and thus improve intercultural as well as international-domestic unity within the student body.
Contact Information
Runyu Feng, President
Social Media
Upcoming Events
To Be Announced
Black Student Union (BSU)
The purpose of the New England Conservatory Black Student Union is to provide an open forum for Black and non-Black students who want to be more involved in the discussion about the Black experience. We desire to create a safe space in which we are able to unify and educate not only ourselves, but the greater NEC community, about our rich, unique history and culture. Our focus is to find new ways to use our gifts to spread love, combat hate, and implement positive change in our community. We share our experiences, express our ideas, and cultivate our dreams through various forms of discussion, performances and outreach.
Contact Information
Zoe Cagan, President
Social Media
Upcoming Events
To Be Announced
Chess Club
Chess Club is a new club on NEC’s campus this year and was started to provide more opportunities on NEC’s campus to connect with the entire student body and allow students to branch out and meet new people on campus! This year the organization wants to help students build connections with students on campus and across Boston, help students learn more about the game of chess and plans to bring in a Grand Master to give a lecture!
Contact Information
Aaron Kaufman-Levine, President
Upcoming Events
To Be Announced!
NEC Christian Fellowship
A chapter of the larger organization, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, our vision is to be a community of healthy and excellent artists who follow Jesus and love the campus! We welcome everyone from all spiritual backgrounds.
Contact Information
Andrew Shield, President
Social Media
Upcoming Events
To Be Announced! Check us out on Instagram above!
Queer Student Union
Queer Student Union is a group devoted to fostering an inclusive community which bolsters the visibility of LGBTQ+ individuals at the New England Conservatory while providing resources to the community and their allies. Through this group, we hope to create a support network to share stories, experiences, and music that speaks to the larger purview containing our own unique queer experiences. Folx interested in joining the group or learning more about how to be involved should add their name to the following online form.
Contact Information
Lyra Montoya, President
Annie Phillips, Faculty Advisor
Upcoming Events
To Be Announced
South Asian Student Association
Student National Association of Teachers of Singing
Want to make your own group? Start one!
Proposals for new organizations have ended for the rest of the academic year. Please check back in the Spring semester for updates to the registration process. Email The Office of Student Services, student.services@necmusic.edu for more information.
Ready to get started? Email Student Services with the following information:
- Your full name
- Your status (undergraduate, graduate, etc.)
- Name of organization
- Purpose or Vision of the club
- Please describe the focus of the club. This can include:
- Host events for the community
- Create a space for students to connect
- Bring awareness to a cause
- All three and maybe more
- The number of potential members interested
- Any other information you feel is necessary.
The subject of your email should read as: NEC Student Organization Proposal