Performances + Events
Concert
NEC Piano Department: Fauré and His Students, Part Two
Jordan Hall
Each year, NEC's Piano Department marks an anniversary or celebrates a composer known for piano works. Students from the College and Preparatory School are then chosen to perform. This year, there will be three concerts centering on the music of Gabriel Fauré and his students. Tonight is the second of these performances.
NEC Contemporary Musical Arts Department: What Does Earth Need? A Call to Action
Jordan Hall
The Contemporary Musical Arts Department presents a concert, directed by Linda Chase and Hankus Netsky, that explores the relationship of musical artists to the current state of the world, specifically in regard to climate ...
NEC Composers' Series: Arthur Berger Memorial Concert
Jordan Hall
The Arthur Berger Memorial Concert honors this composer, author, and journalist who was a member of the NEC faculty for twenty years. Tonight's program is curated by Sid Richardson. 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 Com...
Zildjians, Atlantic Records and Jazz: The Legacy of Istanbul in America
Jordan Hall
The Jazz Studies Department and the Intercultural Institute at NEC will present a series of events culminating in a unique concert featuring a meht...
Tuesday Night New Music 6
Burnes Hall
The newest works from the next generation of composers. Tuesday Night New Music, a student-run, faculty-supervised concert series, was founded in the early 90s by Lee Hyla. It offers audiences the opportunity to hear the music of current New England Conservatory composition students, performed by their peers. This year the series is directed ...
First Monday at Jordan Hall: March
Jordan Hall
Join us as we celebrate 40 years of First Mondays, curated by Artistic Director Laurence Lesser. Programs feature well-loved classics and new compositions, performed by some of the finest chamber musicians in the world, free and open to all. First Mondays are fresh and full of imaginative pairings of well-loved classics and new works, performed in one of the fine...
NEC Piano Department: Fauré and His Students, Part Three
Jordan Hall
Each year, NEC's Piano Department marks an anniversary or celebrates a composer known for piano works. Students from the College and Preparatory School are then chosen to perform. Tonight is the last of three programs centering on the music of Gabriel Fauré and his students. Bruce Brubaker is curator of piano programming. These concerts are de...
NEC Symphony + Hugh Wolff, Tianyi Ren '25 MM: Kerr, Debussy, Wagner, Elgar
Jordan Hall
Hugh Wolff and Tianyi Ren ('25 MM) share the podium for tonight's NEC Symphony concert. 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 pa...
NEC Symphonic Choir and Chamber Singers + Erica J. Washburn: Voices of NEC – One Heart
Jordan Hall
Tonight’s program, the second in a 3-year concert series for the NEC Choral Department, celebrates contributions to the choral canon from NEC alumni. The nine compositions performed tonight are the winners of the choral composition performance competition, "Voices of NEC". The composers include Charles Berofsky '24 (Thou Art My Lute), ...
Perkin Opera Scenes 2
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
Enjoy an evening of scenes in the intimate setting of NEC's Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre. These concerts display the work that goes on daily in NEC's opera program, as faculty prepare student singers for performing careers. Perkin Opera Scenes at NEC appear under the generous sponsorship of longtime NEC supporter Winifred Perkin Gray and the Perkin Fund.
Jason Moran Residency Concert
Williams Hall
Jason Moran presents a performance of solo piano and small ensemble pieces with students of the NEC Jazz Studies program. ...
Perkin Opera Scenes 2
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
Enjoy an evening of scenes in the intimate setting of NEC's Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre. These concerts display the work that goes on daily in NEC's opera program, as faculty prepare student singers for performing careers. Perkin Opera Scenes at NEC appear under the generous sponsorship of longtime NEC supporter Winifred Perkin Gray and the Perkin Fund.
Black Student Union & Castle of Our Skins: One Soul, One Dream
Jordan Hall
NEC's Black Student Union and Castle of Our Skins celebrate Black History Month with music. 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 pr...
Faculty Recital: Rachel Childers, French horn
Burnes 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. ...
Tuesday Night New Music 7
Brown Hall
The newest works from the next generation of composers. Tuesday Night New Music, a student-run, faculty-supervised concert series, was founded in the early 90s by Lee Hyla. It offers audiences the opportunity to hear the music of current New England Conservatory composition students, performed by their peers. This year the series is directed ...
Song and Verse 2: Schubert Songs
Williams Hall
Inaugurated in the fall of 2020, the Song and Verse recital series provides a platform for undergraduate singers at NEC to experience the unique and invigorating process of song preparation and performance—creating interpretations, building performance skills, and forging intellectual and musical connections with a wide literature. Working closely...
NEC New Music Ensemble + Jacob Joyce
Jordan Hall
Inaugurated in Fall 2022, NEC's New Music Ensemble performs a program of diverse works. Tonight's guest conductor is Jacob Joyce. 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 ...
Sonata Night 55
Burnes Hall
Under the direction of NEC faculty pianist Pei-Shan Lee, Sonata Night is an evening of piano-instrumental masterworks featuring collaborative pianists in partnership with their instrumental colleagues. Sonata, a musical term of several meanings, is used here to signify a duo form of equal partnership. Sonata Night programming spans a wide range of musical styles and feature...
Junior/String/Youth Repertory Orchestra Concert
Jordan Hall
Junior Repertory OrchestraConducted by Adam Grossman String Repertory OrchestraConducted by Cynthia Woods Youth Repertory OrchestraConducted by Cynthia Woods ...
NEC Percussion Group
Jordan Hall
The NEC Percussion Group, directed by Will Hudgins, performs music that is largely centered around the unique and never-ending possibilities within the percussion world, as well as being augmented by extra-percussion musical offerings and instruments. This year's...
NEC Composers' Series: DMA Composer Showcase
Jordan Hall
Please join us for an evening of music by current NEC DMA composers. Tonight's concert is curated by Sid Richardson. 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 wind...
NEC Saxophone Ensemble 2
Pierce Hall
NEC's Saxophone Ensemble presents a concert, the culmination of this semester's rehearsals. Kenneth Radnofsky directs. 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 Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds + Kevin Holzman, William Drury
Jordan Hall
Guest conductor Kevin Holzman and William Drury, NEC's Conductor of Wind Ensembles, lead the NEC Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds in tonight's program. To watch a live stream of this event, click the “Streaming Access” button at the top of the page....
NEC Baroque Orchestra
Jordan Hall
NEC's Baroque Orchestra is part of the The Pratt Performance and Residency Series for Early Music, established by Harold I. and Frances G. Pratt at NEC in 2019, which seeks to invite and engage the NEC community with performers and scholars in the Historically Informed Performance field. Masterclasses, symposia, and performances by nationally- and internationally- recognized schol...
Brass Bash + Andrew McCandless
Jordan Hall
The Brass Bash, directed by James Markey, celebrates the students in NEC’s brass department, and features performances for mixed brass ensemble as well as from our horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba classes. In addition, the event concludes with a mass brass choir, featuring all of our students i...
First Monday at Jordan Hall: April
Jordan Hall
Join us as we celebrate 40 years of First Mondays, curated by Artistic Director Laurence Lesser. Programs feature well-loved classics and new compositions, performed by some of the finest chamber musicians in the world, free and open to all. First Mondays are fresh and full of imaginative pairings of well-loved classics and new works, performed in one of the fine...
Tuesday Night New Music 8
Williams Hall
The newest works from the next generation of composers. Tuesday Night New Music, a student-run, faculty-supervised concert series, was founded in the early 90s by Lee Hyla. It offers audiences the opportunity to hear the music of current New England Conservatory composition students, performed by their peers. This year the series is directed ...
NEC Chamber Orchestra 4
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...
Sonata Night 56
Burnes Hall
Under the direction of NEC faculty pianist Pei-Shan Lee, Sonata Night is an evening of piano-instrumental masterworks featuring collaborative pianists in partnership with their instrumental colleagues. Sonata, a musical term of several meanings, is used here to signify a duo form of equal partnership. Sonata Night programming spans a wide range of musical styles and feature...
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[nec]shivaree
Williams Hall
[nec]shivaree, NEC's student avant-garde ensemble, is the attack wing of NEC's new music program, performing the modern, the new, and the avant-garde. Sounds are provided by such composers as John Cage, Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, George Crumb, Galina Ustvolskaya, and Giacinto Scelsi. The players of [nec]shivaree have worked with composers John Zorn, John Luther Adam...
Marion Rubin Berman ’31 Piano Honors Concert
Jordan Hall
The annual Marion Rubin Berman '31 Piano Honors Concert features piano competition winners presenting pieces based on a theme or a composer. This year the concert celebrates the 150th birthday of Maurice Ravel. The live stream of this event is available to NEC Community members only. To watch the stream, please click the “Streaming Access” button at...
Faculty Recital: Joseph Bozich | Sibelius American Premiere, Rossini, and Bozich World Premiere
Jordan Hall
Bozich, The Angel of History for orchestra Bozich, From the Valley of Dry Bones, for viola and orchestraJoseph Bozich, conductorNEC Faculty Recital Orchestra and Chorus Philip Rawlinson, violist Maria Bozich, Jungfrun [The Maiden]Roy Hage, Älsklaren [The Lover]Joel Balzun, Fogden [The Bailiff]Whitney Robinson, Slottsfrun [The Chatelaine]
NEC Philharmonia and Symphonic Choir + Hugh Wolff: Brahms "Ein deutsches Requiem"
Jordan Hall
NEC Philharmonia and NEC Symphonic Choir come together for a performance of Johannes Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with Hugh Wolff, conductor, and soloists Josie Larsen '25 AD, soprano, and Zhanqi Wang '26 MM, baritone. The live stream of this event i...
NEC Jazz Orchestra + Ken Schaphorst: April
Jordan Hall
To watch a live stream of this event, click the “Streaming Access” button at the top of the page. ...
Tuesday Night New Music 9
Williams Hall
The newest works from the next generation of composers. Tuesday Night New Music, a student-run, faculty-supervised concert series, was founded in the early 90s by Lee Hyla. It offers audiences the opportunity to hear the music of current New England Conservatory composition students, performed by their peers. This year the series is directed ...
NEC Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra
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. ...
Liederabend LXXVII
Williams Hall
The Liederabend—literally, "evening of song"—dates back to the 1800s, when musicians and lovers of music would gather at someone's home, and one or more singers and a pianist would perform the songs of composers of the day. In the field of classical music, these songs are referred to as "art songs," and the German art songs are called "Lieder."...
NEC Symphony + David Loebel, Jherrard Hardeman ('25 GD)
Jordan Hall
NEC Symphony, led by David Loebel and Jherrard Hardeman ('25 GD), performs Brahms' Tragic Overture, Orchestral Overture by Tomer Rozen '25 MM, and the Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 77 featuring the winner of an NEC concerto competition. The live stream of this event is available to NEC Community members...
NEC Chamber Singers & Symphonic Winds + Erica J. Washburn & William Drury
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. ...
NEC Contemporary Musical Arts Department: April
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. ...
NEC Philharmonia + Hugh Wolff: Tan Dun, Dvořák, Stravinsky
Jordan Hall
Hugh Wolff and the NEC Philharmonia close the 2024-2025 season with a concert featuring Tan Dun's Fanfare Overture, a concerto by Dvořák, and Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps. To watch a live stream of this event, click the “Streaming Access” button at the top of the page. ...
String Training Orchestras & Preparatory Training Orchestra 8:30 AM Concert
Jordan Hall
String Training Orchestra 8:00 AMConducted by Peter Jarvis String Training Orchestra 9:00 AMConducted by Peter Jarvis Preparatory String Orchestra 8:30 AMConducted by Marta Zurad ...
First Monday at Jordan Hall: May
Jordan Hall
Join us as we celebrate 40 years of First Mondays, curated by Artistic Director Laurence Lesser. Programs feature well-loved classics and new compositions, performed by some of the finest chamber musicians in the world, free and open to all. First Mondays are fresh and full of imaginative pairings of well-loved classics and new works, performed in one of the fine...
Tuesday Night New Music 10
Jordan Hall
The newest works from the next generation of composers. Tuesday Night New Music, a student-run, faculty-supervised concert series, was founded in the early 90s by Lee Hyla. It offers audiences the opportunity to hear the music of current New England Conservatory composition students, performed by their peers. This year the series is directed ...
Baroque Ensembles Concert
Brown Hall
Friday Baroque EnsemblePreparatory Baroque EnsembleBaroque Chamber Orchestra Conducted by Aldo Abreu ...
Junior/String/Youth Repertory Orchestra Concert
Jordan Hall
Junior Repertory OrchestraConducted by Adam Grossman String Repertory OrchestraConducted by Cynthia Woods Youth Repertory OrchestraConducted by Cynthia Woods ...
String Chamber Orchestra & Preparatory String Orchestra 10:30 Concert
Jordan Hall
String Chamber OrchestraConducted by Peter Jarvis Preparatory String Orchestra 10:30Conducted by Marta Zurad ...
Youth Jazz Orchestra Concert
Brown Hall
Youth Jazz OrchestraLed by Bob Nieske & Jeffrey Leonard ...
