NEC Preparatory School Youth Chorale & Children's Chorus

George Frideric Handel (arr. Henry Kihlken) | Give Thanks and Praise

NEC Children's Chorus

Daniel Kantor | Night of Silence

NEC Children's Chorus

Ralph Vaughan Williams | The Singers

NEC Children's Chorus

Angolan Folk Song (arr. Eliot Z. Levine) | O, Desayo

NEC Children's Chorus

Mike Neumeyer | Freezing Snow (2021)

NEC Youth Chorale

Nicholas Myers | The Winter's Night

NEC Youth Chorale

Charles V. Stanford | The Blue Bird

NEC Youth Chorale
NEC Children's Chorus

Sarah Quartel | A Winter Day (2016)

NEC Youth Chorale

Timid Star
A Winter's Dawn
Into Morning
A Winter's Day
Snow Toward Evening

NEC Children's Chorus and Youth Chorale

Rosie Bateman
Nina Dundas
Eliza Gastrock
Virginia Goldenheim
Julian Hirshfield
Savannah Kaminsky
Johanna Lam
Olivia Lam
Ivy Liao
Rachel Ma
Elyza Oglice
Esthera Oglice
Victoria Paramova
Emily Peng
William Peng
Jai Sathiraju
Keira Shao
Judá Soto
Jessica Tang
Adam Zhang
Sam Zhou

Laura Nevitt is a conductor, composer, and educator based in Boston. She is Founder and Artistic Director of Lilith Vocal Ensemble, Children’s Chorus Director at NEC Prep, Associate Conductor at Voices Boston Children’s Choir, a Teaching Artist with Boston Lyric Opera and Handel & Haydn Society, and Music Director at First Parish UU in Needham, MA, where she is also Artistic Director of the newly formed “To The Fore” Concert Series, focused on bringing historically marginalized voices to the forefront.
        As a composer, Laura is especially passionate about giving voice and space to gender marginalized musicians and poets through choral and vocal music. Their compositions have been performed by musicians across the country, including the Handel & Haydn Society Youth Choruses, Choral Arts Initiative, the Evelyn Duo, Voices Boston Children’s Choir, Boston Conservatory Choir, Nightingale Vocal Ensemble, Lilith Vocal Ensemble, BRACE New Music Choir, the UofSC Concert Choir, and the Choir of Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge.
 

NEC Preparatory School Youth Chorale
Erica J. Washburn, director
Calvin Isaac Wamser ’24 MM, student manager and assistant conductor
Da-Yu Liu, rehearsal accompanist

Abigail Bilodeau
Ashley Chen
Hannah Goodwin
Bailee Green
Esther Jin
Maggie King
Lindsay Kwon
Darya Leschiner
Madeline Lytton
Claire Park
Alla Petrosyan
Adam Pinto
Mia Snorek-Yates
Elin Thomas
Natalie Tulipani
Clara Van de Velde
Calvin Isaac Wamser
Ariel Wang
Mary Wang
Maximilian Wood
Nicholas Ying
Christopher Yoo
Henri Youmans
Eddie Zhou
Kevin Zhou

Conductor and mezzo-soprano Erica J. Washburn has been Director of Choral Activities at New England Conservatory since 2009.  Known for her student-centric approach to classroom and rehearsal instruction, and commitment to the performance of new music, she is the recipient of several outstanding alumni awards, including the distinguished honor of induction to the Westminster Choir College Music Education Hall of Fame.
        As a conductor, Washburn has worked with Kansas City, MO based Cardinalis, the Yale Schola Cantorum, the East Carolina University Women’s Chorale, and the Eastman Women’s Chorus. She is a sought-after guest clinician who frequently leads state and regional festival choruses, and spent five summers as a conductor and voicefaculty member for the New York State Summer School of the Arts School of ChoralStudies.
       Under her direction the NEC choirs have been featured on several live and pre-recorded broadcasts, including the North Carolina based station WCPE Great Sacred Music, WICN Public Radio, and WGBH Boston. The choirs can also be heard in collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project on the BMOP/Sound recording Paul Moravec:The Blizzard Voices and, most recently, with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on their Deutsche Grammophon recording of Shostakovich Symphony No. 13 (released on October 20).
       Washburn’s stage credits include appearances as Madame Lidoine in Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, Rebecca Nurse in Robert Ward’s The Crucible, Mother/Allison in the premiere of Lee Hoiby’s This is the Rill Speaking and others. Her recital and orchestral solo credits are numerous, and her live premiere from Jordan Hall of the late Richard Toensing’s Night Songs and Evening Prayers with the New England Conservatory Symphonic Winds can be heard on Albany Records.