Performances + Events
Jazz
Master class with Violinist Nathan Cole
TBD
Funded by the Richard P. and Claire W. Morse Visiting Artist Fund
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Festival Jazz Forum with Sarah Charles and Caroline Davis
Eben Jordan Ensemble Room
Caroline Davis (saxophone, electronics) and Sarah Elizabeth Charles (voice), will present a concert of their music, as well as having an open Q&A with the NEC community. Caroline Davis is active as both a side-person and a leader in a diverse set of expressions, having shared the stage with Lee Konitz, Rajna Swaminathan, Michelle Boulé, Angelica Sanchez, John Zorn, Bari Kim, The Femme ...
November 10 – 17: NEC Festival: Charles Ives, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and American Musical Innovation
NEC celebrates Charles Ives’ (1874 – 1954) 150th birthday with a tribute to American musical innovation, featuring his music, the work of visionary composer, educator, and folklorist Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901 – 1953), and their legacies, both recognized and unheard. Special events will run throughout the week, including workshops with Alex Cummings, Adah Hetko, and residencie...
GEORGE: John Hollenbeck, Anna Webber, Sarah Rossy, chiquitamagic,
Eben Jordan Ensemble Room
Charles Ives was actively composing at the same time that jazz was first recognized as a uniquely American music. And Ives's music shares many of the same influences, including marches, ragtime and American popular songs. The NEC Jazz Orchestra will make these connections clear in their performances of new arrangements of Ives’s most celebrated compositions by Ken Schaphorst, includin...
NEC Jazz/CMA Faculty Spotlight
Jordan Hall
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 Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra
Brown Hall
NEC's Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra features the music of NEC students performed by their peers, under the direction of Frank Carlberg.
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