In their final performance of the academic year, the NEC Jazz Orchestra will pay tribute to the legendary jazz composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who passed away in March 2023. Guest artists...
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Each year, an audition committee of professional musicians and faculty selects a few exceptional student ensembles to represent the NEC Honors Ensemble Program. The ensembles work with a faculty coach...
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Frank Carlberg and the NEC Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra perform with flutist and Artist-in-residence, Nicole Mitchell. Nicole M. Mitchell is an award-winning creative flutist, composer...
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In 2015, Anna Webber and Angela Morris brought together their arsenal of skills as composers-performers-conductors to form the Webber/Morris Big Band, an ensemble of eighteen stellar New York...
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The NEC Jazz Department celebrates the music of Max Roach, an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the...
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Saxophonist, flutist, and composer Anna Webber, whose interests and work live in the aesthetic overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music, has been widely heralded for her “visionary and...
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Faculty members from Jazz Studies and Contemporary Musical Arts present a wide-ranging program that highlights the breadth and depth of the departments with a diverse range of music.
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NEC's students meet one-on-one each week with a faculty artist to perfect their craft. As each one leaves NEC to make their mark in the performance world, they present a full, professional recital...
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NEC's Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra features the music of NEC students performed by their peers, under the direction of Frank Carlberg.
This is an in-person event with a private stream...