Performances + Events
Events calendar
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 Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra: Music of Anthony Braxton
Jordan Hall
Tonight, Anthony Braxton will present his music for a large ensemble in collaboration with the NEC Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra, coached by Frank Carlberg. JCWO features students enrolled in the NEC Jazz Composition program, providing a chance to workshop original music, lea...
Piano Seminar: Marilyn Nonken
Keller Room
Join us for a special seminar featuring pianist Marilyn Nonken, hosted by the NEC Piano Department.
Chamber Music Showcase | April 23 | 8 p.m.
Burnes Hall
A flight of performances. A richness of artists. In December, April, and May, New England Conservatory fills the air with the sounds of piano trios, string quartets, and more, both day and night. Performers include NEC's faculty of chamber music superstars, and the students coached by these great artists. In tonight's concert, student ensembles demonstrate the works they h...
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.
Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award Concert
Jordan Hall
One of the Borromeo String Quartet's most loved activities in their residency at New England Conservatory is the audition process to select the winners of the Guest Artist Awards. They greatly enjoy the week of collaboration in which every student who has entered the competition has a session playing and working together with the quartet. Working with all these students and affording specia...
NEC Piano Department Concert No. 3: Scarlatti Sonatas
Williams 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 third of these six performances. This concert series will span three years and cover all 500 Scarlatti...
Sonata Night 59
Burnes Hall
Under the direction of NEC faculty pianist Max Levinson, 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 equ...
