NEC Philharmonia + Symphonic Choir: Bartók & Shostakovich
The NEC Symphonic Choir joins the NEC Philharmonia in two very different 20th century choral pieces. Bartók features women’s voices for his exuberant Slovakian Three Village Scenes, while Shostakovich uses only men’s voices—a male choir and a bass soloist—for his epic song cycle, Symphony No. 13, “Babi Yar.” Shostakovich took part of his text from Yevgeny Yevtushenko's 1961 poem, Babi Yar, a protest against the Soviet Union's refusal to identify Babi Yar, a ravine in the suburbs of Kiev, as a site of the mass murder of 33,000 Jews on September 29–30, 1941.
Hugh Wolff conducts and William Meinert is the bass soloist.
This performance is open to in-person audiences, and is also viewable via livestream.
- NEC Philharmonia
- NEC Symphonic Choir
- Erica J. Washburn, chorus master
- William Meinert, bass soloist
Béla Bartók | Three Village Scenes (1926)
Wedding (Svatba)
Lullaby (Ukoliebavka)
Lad's Dance (Tanec Mládencov)Sopranos/Altos of NEC Symphonic Choir
Oluwanimofe Akinyanmi
Aislin Alancheril
Brittany Bryant
Chen Chen
Jing Chen
Despina Dassouras
Sophia Grace Donelan
Runyu Feng
Rachel Fredette
Rachel Gu
Siyuan Amelia Guan
Yujin Han
Jinyu He
Blake Hetherington
Dohyun Kim
Mengyuan Li
Qianqian Li
Ssu-Hsuan Sandy Li
Yunqi Li
Yen Yu Tiffany Lin
Mei Luo
Sally Millar
Hannah Miller
Sianna Monti
Jiaruo Shi
Qiu Qiu
Emma Schoetz
Jiaruo Aria Shi
Anisha Srinivasan
Claire Stephenson
Wanrou Tang
Ke Xin Tian
Sophia Tseng
Xiaoye Wei
Shan Shan Xie
Grace Yu
Jessica Yuma
Yukun Zhang
Zhaoqian Ellie Zhong
Ling ZhouNEC Philharmonia
First Violin
Hannah Chaewon Kim
Second Violin
Hannah Goldstick
Viola
Julian Sneige-Seney
Cello
Jonathan Salman
Bass
Misha Bjerken
Flute/Piccolo
Javier Castro
Oboe/English horn
Kip ZimmermanClarinet
Erica Smith
Tristan Broadfoot
E-flat Clarinet
Erica Smith
Alto Saxophone
Rayna DeYoung
Bassoon
Chaoyang Jing
French horn
Yeonjo Oh
Trumpet
Sarah Heimberg
Trombone
Puyuan Chen
Percussion
Pei Hsien Lu
Harp
Yvonne Cox‡
Piano
Da-Yu LiuDmitri Shostakovich | Symphony No. 13 in B-flat Minor, op. 113 ("Babi Yar")
Babi Yar
Humor
In the Store
Fears
CareersTenors/Basses of NEC Symphonic Choir
Isaac Berglind
Hongbo Cai
Garrett Comrie
Su Cong
Andrew Minoo Dixon
Yuxin Duan
Yan Fang
Edward Ferran
Jaden Fogel
Abisal Gergiev
Jiawei Gong
Dermot Gleeson
Killian Grider
Changjin Ha
Cameron Hayden
Weza Jamison-Neto
Owen Johnson
Jonah Kernis
Loren Kim
Jordan Chun Kwan Lau
Che Li
Pengyi Li
Yuhang Li
Shawn Xiangyun Lian
Jonas Shaocheng Man
Colin Miller
Yechan Min
Tristan Murphy
Xiaoyu Frank Sang
Jonathan Senik
Xingrong Shao
Hanwen Shi
Yide Shi
Tamir Shimshoni
Alexander Tsereteli
Joseph Vasconi
Qizhen Steven Wang
Ranfei Wang
Tianyou Wang
Yinuo Wang
Yuki Yoshimi
Sean Yu
Yukun Zhang
ZhuoYa Zhu
NEC Philharmonia
First Violin
Emma Carleton
Haerim Oh
Jimmy Wang
Dongyoung Shim
Liyuan Xie
Esther Yang
Jeffrey Pearson
Ruoran Yu
Dorson Chang
Bree Fotheringham
Yebin Yoo
Evelyn Song
Second Violin
Evan Hjort
Passacaglia Mason
Seunghee Lee
Isabella Gorman
Yilei Yin
Anthony Chan
Justus Ross
Aidan Ip
Eunha Kim
Haekyung Ju
Liyuán Xiè
Viola
Pierre Trache
Elton Tai
Ayano Nakamura
Wonjeong Seol
Bram Fisher
Man To Kwong
Anna Mann
John Harry Clark
Hyelim Kong
Cello
Joan Herget
Emma Fisher
Josephina You Kyung Kim
Jungah Lee
Claire Park
Yuri Ahn
Jonathan Salman
Bass
Gregory Manuel Padilla
Chiyang Chen
Christopher Laven
Misha Bjerken
Minyi Wang
Flute
Erika Rohrberg
Jeong Won Choe
Piccolo
Yeyoung Moon
Oboe
Izumi Amemiya
Samuel Rockwood
Nathalie Graciela Vela
English horn
Samuel Rockwood
Clarinet
Soyeon Park
Tyler Bourque
Hugo Kweon
E-flat Clarinet
Hugo Kweon
Bass Clarinet
Hugo Kweon
Bassoon
Andrew Brooks
John Fulton
Evan Judson
Contrabassoon
Evan Judson
French horn
Hannah Messenger
Alex Daiker
Tasha Schapiro
Karlee Kamminga
Trumpet
Wentao Xiao
Dimitri Raimonde
David O’Neill
Trombone
Katie Franke
Matt Vezey
Bass Trombone
Changwon Park
Tuba
David Stein
Timpani
Tennison Watts
Percussion
Ross Hussong
Taylor Lents
Hayoung Song
Yiming Yao
HarpYvonne Cox
Zi Li
Piano, Celeste
Da-Yu LiuArtists- William Meinert, bass soloist