Performances + Events
Performances + Events
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NEC Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Winds, & Symphonic Choir
Jordan Hall
Guest conductor Joseph Higgins joins NEC's William Drury to lead the NEC Wind Ensemble and NEC Symphonic Winds in tonight's concert. The program repertory includes Giovanni Gabrieli's Canzon per Sonar Septimi Toni No. 2, "P…
Connections Chamber Music: Impressionists
Burnes Hall
Connections is NEC's latest chamber music series, bringing together – on stage – faculty and students from both the College and the Preparatory School. Each program also focuses on a theme, with the aim of illuminating the connections between different works of music. Max Levinson directs the series. To…
Matthew McDonald Double Bass Master Class
Keller Room
Matthew McDonald presents a master class featuring students from the NEC double bass studios.
Marie-Pierre Langlemet Harp Master Class
Williams Hall
Marie-Pierre Langlemet presents a master class featuring students from the NEC harp studio. She first become acquainted and enchanted with the harp from the children’s album Piccolo Saxo. Because Marie-Pierre Langlamet definitely wanted to learn a polyphonic instrument, and the piano class was full, she decided to take up the harp. She received her first musical training at the Nic…
NEC Jazz Small Ensemble Series
Eben Jordan Hall
Night 3 of the NEC Jazz Studies Small Ensemble Series features performances by the Joe Morris I Ensemble at 7:00p, the Jazz Vocal II Ensemble with Sara Serpa at 8:00p, and the Joe Morris II Ensemble at 9:00p.
BSO Prelude: What I Hear – Kevin Puts
Brown Hall
For the first of this season's What I Hear events, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts curates a program of chamber music in connection with the BSO's performances of his The Brightness of Light later this evening. NEC students perform his works Air (for cello and piano), a movement from
CEB Thrift Party: "Take What You Need, Give What You Can"
Center for CEB, SB 203
The Center for Cultural Equity and Belonging, will host a community Thrift Party, where all are welcomed to thrift and exchange winter clothing items at no cost. This will be a fun and warm event. Stop by and pick up some clothing items! If you would like to donate winter clothing items for this event, please email
Recital: Joy Chen '24 MM, Piano
Williams Hall
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 that is free and open to the public. It's your first look at the artists of tomorrow. Joy Chen '24 MM studies Piano with Meng-Chieh Liu
Recital Postponed: Max Ignas '25 DMA, Trumpet
Brown Hall
In the course of completing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at New England Conservatory, performance majors present not just one, but three full-length recitals, for which they also write program notes. It's an opportunity to observe multiple facets of an emerging artist. Max Ignas ‘25 DMA studies Trumpet with Steve Emery.
Gunther Schuller Legacy Concert: Every Day in the Forever Musical Life of Gunther Schuller
Jordan Hall
With tonight's concert, NEC and the Gunther Schuller Society celebrate his 99th birthday. "Gunther Schuller used the score to preserve, create and recreate from the unwritten as well as the written. The composers, artists, authors, and poets represented here tonight — layers and generations of history and creativity — stood for those same princ…
