Wind Ensembles

Please welcome the Preparatory School's Senior Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble, led by Michael Mucci and assistant conductor Allison Lacasse, in its first concert of the school year!

Please welcome the Preparatory School's MYWE Concert Band, led by Al Dentino and assistant conductor Justin Aramati, in its open rehearsal in Jordan Hall.

Please welcome our Junior Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble, conducted by Jared Cassedy, as it performs its first concert of the year!

We invite you to attend the Preparatory School's Youth Brass Ensemble, conducted by Eli Epstein, in its first concert of the school year!

Nicolás Ayala-Cerón '22 DMA conducts the NEC Wind Ensemble in a program of works by Bernard, Gabrieli, Maslanka, and Ticheli.

Graduate conductors, students of Charles Peltz, lead their colleagues in a program of works by Strauss, Husa, Plog, Mendelssohn, and Mozart.

Gunther Schuller was a champion of the underrepresented. In music he held a special place for the unheralded, the less known, whether it be composers or musical genres—or instruments. It is this last of Gunther’s advocacies which we feature tonight.

Tonight we celebrate three NEC composers with premieres of their work.

Open the season with a flash! NEC students spaced around Jordan Hall envelop you in Handel’s music to celebrate being back making music.