Performances + Events
Performances + Events
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Performances + Events
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Events calendar
CANCELLED: Jeff Nelsen French Horn Master Class
Black Box Theatre, 255 St. Botolph Street
This event is cancelled due to anticipated weather conditions. NEC will close at 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 25 and remain closed through Monday, January 26. Normal operations will resume on Tuesday, January 27. — Jeff Nelsen, French horn of Canadian Brass, presents a master class featuring students from the NEC horn studios. In addition to student performances, Jeff will …
CANCELLED: Carlos Simon Chamber Music Master Class
Brown Hall
This event is cancelled due to anticipated weather conditions. NEC will close at 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 25 and remain closed through Monday, January 26. Normal operations will resume on Tuesday, January 27. — BSO Composer Chair Carlos Simon leads a master class of his own chamber works. In this class, students from the NEC Chamber Music program will have the unique op…
POSTPONED: Faculty Recital: Rachel Childers, French Horn, Christopher Elchico, Clarinet, and Jiayan Sun, Piano
Jordan Hall
This event is postponed due to anticipated weather conditions. NEC will close at 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 25 and remain closed through Monday, January 26. Normal operations will resume on Tuesday, January 27. NEC faculty colleagues Christopher Elchico and
Tuesday Night New Music 6
Brown Hall
The newest works from the next generation of composers. Tuesday Night New Music, a student-run, faculty-supervised concert series, was founded in the early 90s by Lee Hyla. It offers audiences the opportunity to hear the music of current New England Conservatory composition students, performed by their peers. This year the series is directed …
Midnight Strings: Fostering Relationships Through Guitar and Songwriting
Some of the most impactful work of teaching artists is helping communities bring their own stories to life through collective music making. In this workshop, Los Angeles-based guitarist, composer, and educator Philip Graulty shares insight into his career and teaching artist practice, particularly his work developing and directing Midnight Strings, a guitar and songwriting program at The Midnig…
NEC Philharmonia + David Loebel
Jordan Hall
David Loebel and the NEC Philharmonia open their spring season with a program featuring Schumann's Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Samuel Barber's Symphony No. 1, and the first movement of Cindy McTee's Double Play – The Unquestioned Answe…
BSO Prelude: "What I Hear" featuring Carlos Simon
Brown Hall
A collaboration between the Boston Symphony Orchestra and New England Conservatory, "What I Hear" is a series of free hour-long events at NEC meant to introduce audiences to composers being featured in a BSO concert taking place later in the same evening. These composer-curated chamber music programs feature performances by Conservatory students and include conversations betwee…
Vivo Performing Arts Presents: Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Jordan Hall
Celebrity Series of Boston is now Vivo Performing Arts. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes returns to Vivo Performing Arts for his third appearance—but for the first time as a solo recitalist. Praised for his insightful, compelling, and elegantly virtuosic interpretations, Andsnes brings clarity and structure to every piece he performs. Multiple price points available…
A Far Cry Presents: Side by Side
Jordan Hall
Curated by Crier Michael UntermanFeaturing students from Project STEP & New England Conservatory * Great music isn’t just taught—it’s shared with the next generation side by side. In A Far Cry’s annual Side by Side, the Criers partner with young musicians from Project STEP and New England Conservatory for a joyful performance that celebrates the n…
NEC Symphony + Hugh Wolff
Jordan Hall
Tonight's program, conducted by Hugh Wolff, opens with Jennifer Higdon's Fanfare Ritmico (1999), a work which Higdon describes as celebrating "that rhythmic motion, of man and machine, and the energy which permeates every moment of our being in the new century."…
