Performances + Events
Events calendar
CMA Spring Ensemble Festival | Part 2
Pierce Hall
Join us for a joyful celebration of community, tradition, and great music from start to finish. Part two of the CMA Spring Ensemble Festival is an unforgettable day of live music from several of our standout groups, including American Roots, Early Jazz, Irish Ceol, and more.
NEC Prep: Winter Chamber Music Festival
Brown Hall, Williams Hall, Burnes Hall
Join us for the NEC Prep Winter Chamber Music Festival, a day-long celebration featuring performances by over 50 student chamber groups across multiple halls on campus. Come explore a variety of ensembles and enjoy the opportunity to hear the outstanding work these young musicians have developed throughout the semester—stay for one recital or experience several throughout the day!
Celebrity Series of Boston Presents: Conrad Tao, piano: Poetry & Fairy Tales
Jordan Hall
Poetry and Fairy Tales Pianist Conrad Tao showcases his range and sensitivity with Poetry and Fairy Tales, a program that interweaves evocative contemporary works with well-known pieces by Brahms and Ravel. Structure and freedom, mood and narrative, dynamism and introspection combine when Conrad Tao—an artist of “probing intellect and open-hearted vi...
NEC Chamber Orchestra: Vanhal + Haydn
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 w...
NEC Baroque Orchestra + Chamber Singers: Handel "Dixit Dominus" and James Burton
Jordan Hall
NEC's Chamber Singers and Baroque Orchestra join for a performance of Handel's 1707 setting of Psalm 110, Dixit Dominus, scored for five soloists (S, S, A, T, B), mixed chorus, strings and continuo. Tonight's guest conductor, James Burton, is familiar to Boston audiences the BSO's recent Director of Choral Activities and Conductor of the Tangl...
NEC Symphonic Choir, NEC Chamber Singers + Erica J. Washburn: Voices of NEC
Jordan Hall
In the final concert of the 3-year performance series, "Voices of NEC", the NEC Choral Department presents choral works composed by current NEC students and 2025 alumni, selected by the Choral Composition Performance Composition panel. Also on the program are Benjamin Britten's Cantata Misericordium and Tarik O'Regan's Triptych.
NEC Piano Department Concert No. 1: Scarlatti Sonatas
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 six concerts centering on Domenico Scarlatti's Piano Sonatas. Tonight is the first of these six performances. This concert series will span three years and cover all 500 Scarlatti...
NEC Prep: Suzuki Ensembles Spring Concert
Brown Hall
Join us for the NEC Prep Suzuki Ensembles performance, featuring our youngest musicians as they share what they've learned through the Suzuki method. This concert celebrates their progress this semester, joy in music-making, and the power of learning together.
Piano Seminar: Joseph Kubera
Keller Room
Join us for a special seminar featuring pianist Joseph Kubera, hosted by the NEC Piano Department.
Piano Seminar: Robert Levin
Keller Room
Join us for a special seminar featuring pianist Robert Levin, hosted by the NEC Piano Department.
