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News

Thu, December 15, 2022

News from NEC students, faculty, and alumni including Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, Sid Richardson, Jordan Bak, Adria Ye, Luciana Souza, and the NEC Community Performances & Partnerships Program; recent Grammy Award nominations for the NEC community; and we remember alumna Lucinda M. Olson and former faculty member Mick Goodrick, who both passed away in November.

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The Latest NEC News: Grammy Nominations, Inventing a New Instrument, and More

Fri, November 18, 2022

Four members of the NEC community receive Grammy nominations; Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol invents a new instrument; and more!

Profile

Thomas Kelly

Thomas Forrest Kelly is Morton B. Knafel Research Professor of Music at Harvard University, where he served as Chair of the Music Department from 1999 to 2004. In 2005 he was named a Harvard College...

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What’s New: New Year Edition 2022

Mon, January 10, 2022

News from NEC alumni, students, and faculty members including Eden MacAdam-Somer, Sung Ho Yoo, Nima Janmohammadi, Lina González-Granado, Ellen Exner, Dominique Eade, Fred Hersch, and Aoife O’Donovan.

Event

Nevertheless, She Persisted: The Homecoming of Florence B. Price

Fri, November 1, 2019 | 4:00pm

NEC: Pierce Hall

Musicologist John Michael Cooper and pianist Lara Downes will present a lecture-recital of unpublished works by Florence B. Price, an NEC composition/organ alum and the first African-American woman to...

Event

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol Faculty Recital: Jews and Sufis

Thu, September 12, 2019 | 7:30pm

NEC: Jordan Hall

Since at least the 16th century, the Turkish maftirim repertoire – Hebrew devotional poetry set to Turkish makam music for use in the synagogue – demonstrates the deep relationships Ottoman Jews...