Performances + Events
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NEC Piano Department Concert No. 2: 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 second of these six performances. This concert series will span three years and cover all 500 Scarlatt...
Undergraduate Opera Studio Presents: Handel's Xerxes | Night 1
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
Join us for the Undergraduate Opera Studio's presentation of Handel's Xerxes. Stage direction by Steven Goldstein. The Undergraduate Opera Studio (UGOS) is a unique, auditioned program at NEC exclusively for undergraduate voice majors who have successfully completed their first-year promotional exam. Designed as an introduction to the art of opera and lyric th...
Chamber Music Showcase | April 28 | 5 p.m.
Williams 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...
Transient Canvas
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
The spring semester starts with a bang as we host the tour-de-force bass clarinet and marimba duo Transient Canvas for a night of electro-acoustic music. Amy Advocat and Matt Sharrock have commissioned close to a hundred new works for their unique instrumentation, and performed countless others, including on their three albums released by New Focus Recordings. Tonight, they premiere five new wo...
NEC Prep: Youth Chorale, Chamber Chorus, Children’s Choir, and Little Penguins
Jordan Hall
Join us for the concert of the Little Penguins, Children's Choir, Chamber Chorus and Youth Chorale, led by conductors Laura Nevitt, Erica J. Washburn, and Louis Shriber '27 MM.
NEC Prep: Harp Recital
Keller Room
Celebrate the talents of our young harpists at the NEC Prep Winter Harp Recital, featuring solo performances by students in harp lessons and ensemble pieces from our harp groups. This concert highlights their dedication and progress over the semester.
Faculty Recital: Rachel Childers, French Horn, Christopher Elchico, Clarinet, and Jiayan Sun, Piano
Jordan Hall
NEC faculty colleagues Christopher Elchico and Rachel Childers share Jordan Hall stage with pianist Jiayan Sun for a program of works by Jane Vignery, Brahms, and Carl Reinecke....
NEC Opera: Perkins Scenes 2 | Night 1
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
Enjoy an evening of scenes in the intimate setting of NEC's Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre. These concerts display the work that goes on daily in NEC's Opera Program, as faculty prepare student singers for performing careers. Perkin Opera Scenes at NEC appear under the generous sponsorship of longtime NEC supporter Winifred Perkin Gray and the Perkin Fund.
Tuesday Night New Music 10
Williams Hall
The newest works from the next generation of composers. Tuesday Night New Musica 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 student composers P...
Sonata Class Recital
Williams Hall
The NEC Chamber Music Department presents the fruit of the semester's work in a free recital. Led by NEC faculty member Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, student pairs perform individual movements of sonatas that demonstrate the equal partnering of string player and pianist....
