Performances + Events
Concert
NEC Composers' Series: "Echoes Through Time: A Tapestry of Voices"
Jordan Hall
"Echoes Through Time: A Tapestry of Voices" features works by seven NEC DMA and MM composers. Each piece in this concert is a unique thread, woven together to form a rich, harmonious tapestry that transcends time and place. From the vibrant autumn hues to the stirring legacies of Shostakovich, from ancient Chinese myth to the profound explorations of emotions and mathematics, and from...
NEC Saxophone Ensemble 2
Pierce Hall
NEC's Saxophone Ensemble presents a concert, the culmination of this semester's rehearsals. Kenneth Radnofsky directs, assisted by Clancy Ellis. The live stream of this event is available to NEC Community members only. To watch the stream, please click the “Streaming Acces...
UGOS: Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas"
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
Artwork by Aislin Alancheril Welcome to the Undergraduate Opera Studio’s production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. This is a time defying drama that has been performed in opera houses both big and small. I always look forward to presenting this work and hope that you fall in love with it as I have. The students always bring something sp...
UGOS: Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas"
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
Artwork by Aislin Alancheril Welcome to the Undergraduate Opera Studio’s production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. This is a time defying drama that has been performed in opera houses both big and small. I always look forward to presenting this work and hope that you fall in love with it as I have. The students always bring something sp...
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 Pratt Early Music Program at New England Conservatory established by Harold I. Pratt and Frances G. Pratt, 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 scholars and performers are f...
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 ...
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 by studen...
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: Ravel's Violin and Piano Works
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...
Music for Food & Yellow Barn
Williams Hall
Please join us for the fourth Boston concert of Music for Food’s 15th season: Yellow Barn Partnership Concert. This concert will feature Helena Tulve’s evocative silences/larmes, Arnold Schoenberg’s expressive song cycle The Book of the Hanging Gardens, and Francis Poulenc’s dramatic monodrama La Voix Humaine. A distinguished roster of performers, i...
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
Experience the American Premiere of Sibelius' only opera Jungfrun i tornet (The Maiden in the Tower) presented in its original Swedish in concert in Jordan Hall. The cast includes NEC alumni and professional young artists and an orchestra and chorus made-up of members of the NEC student body. NEC faculty member Joseph Bozich conducts. Also on the program, hear the world premiere of J...
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 with Maria Schneider
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 Beethoven's "Coriolan" Overture, Orchestral Overture by Tomer Rozen '25 MM, Britten's Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes", and the Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 77 featuring the winner of an NEC...
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 Presents Visionaries and Eccentrics: Ives' Problem Children
Jordan Hall
With his concept of musical transcendentalism, Charles Ives paved the way for a century of experimentation in multiple modes of musical expression. Tonight, CMA students explore the worlds of collage, postmodernism, and other genres of multi-layered music, including rock, jazz, funk, noise, and other contemporary musical art forms, drawing on the music of Brian Wilson, Captain Beefheart, Parlia...
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. ...
CMA Spring Ensemble Festival Part 1
Eben Jordan Hall
The Department of Contemporary Musical Arts presents part 1 of its Spring Ensemble Festival, with performances by the Interdisciplinary, Songwriters Workshop, and R&B ensembles. Part 2 will be presented on May 4. ...
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 ...
CMA Spring Ensemble Festival Part 2
Eben Jordan Hall
Celebrate spring with a festival of Contemporary Musical Arts Ensembles, featuring music, food, and dance all day long! Join us for performances by the Middle Eastern, Jewish Music, CMA Early Jazz, Mande West African, American Roots, Columbian R&B, indie.punk.artrock Ensembles. The evening will conclude wi...
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 ...
