Performances + Events
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Performances + Events

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Mbira Music of Zimbabwe Workshop
Brown Hall
Charismatic Zimbabwean master musician Vitalis “Samaita” Botsa creates gorgeous waves of sound with his mbira, connecting the living with the ancestors. “I’m just the car, it’s the spirits doing the driving, making the music,” he says. Visiting from his village in Zimbabwe for duo tour with Erica Azim, Botsa is presenting mbira, an ancient form of sacred musi…

Sylvia Alimena French Horn Master Class
Burnes Hall
Sylvia Alimena presents a master class featuring students from the NEC French horn studios. Sylvia Alimena has had an active thirty-eight-year conducting career throughout the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area. Summoned to Washington in 1985 as Second Hornist of the National…

NEC Chamber Orchestra: Strauss, Mozart, Weinberg
Jordan Hall
The NEC Chamber Orchestra was created to provide the students with an opportunity to apply the principals of chamber music in a small orchestral setting. The participants are chosen by audition at the beginning of the academic year and remain together throughout. As the ensemble rehearses and performs without a conductor, leadership responsibilities are rotated for every work perform…

Recital: Hongzhen Wang '26 DMA, Piano
Williams 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. Hongzhen Wang ‘26 DMA studies Piano with

NEC Symphonic Winds + Sylvia Alimena
Jordan Hall
The live stream of this event is available to NEC Community members only. To watch the stream, please click the “Streaming Access” button at the top of the page and enter the NEC Community streaming password on the video window labeled “NEC-Produced Stream” when prompted.

Piano Seminar: Zsolt Bognár – "Living the Classical Life"
Keller Room
Creator of "Living The Classical Life," Zsolt Bognár in a discussion about pianists and their lives.

Faculty Recital: Max Levinson, Piano
Jordan Hall
The live stream of this event is available to NEC Community members only. To watch the stream, please click the “Streaming Access” button at the top of the page and enter the NEC Community streaming password on the video window labeled “NEC-Produced Stream” when prompted.

Boston Baroque Presents: Baroque Masterworks
Jordan Hall
Experience the brilliance and emotional depth of the Baroque era with a program of masterworks from some of its greatest composers. Mezzo-soprano Meridian Prall brings expressive power to Giovanni Battista Ferrandini’s Il Pianto di Maria, a poignant and rarely heard gem. The orchestra shines in a vibrant suite from Rameau’s Les Boréades, J. S. Bach’s joyful Sinfonia to Ca…

Boston Baroque Presents: Baroque Masterworks
Jordan Hall
Experience the brilliance and emotional depth of the Baroque era with a program of masterworks from some of its greatest composers. Mezzo-soprano Meridian Prall brings expressive power to Giovanni Battista Ferrandini’s Il Pianto di Maria, a poignant and rarely heard gem. The orchestra shines in a vibrant suite from Rameau’s Les Boréades, J. S. Bach’s joyful Sinfonia to Ca…

Opening Our Doors at NEC
Jordan Hall
On Monday, October 13, NEC joins the Fenway Alliance's annual Opening Our Doors celebration: Boston’s largest day of free arts and cultural events throughout the Fenway Cultural District. Stop by the acoustically sublime Jordan Hall to hear performances by current NEC students, featuring…