Performances + Events
January 25–26
Due to anticipated weather conditions, NEC will close for all activities, classes, concerts, and events at 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 25 and remain closed through Monday, January 26. Normal operations will resume on Tuesday, January 27. For more information about specific events, please visit the Performances + Events calendar.
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Accessible Music Education: Reaching and Teaching Every Student
Prevost Room or Virtual
As our students’ learning schemes become more diverse, including all learners becomes increasingly challenging. Accessible Music Education provides strategies that combine evidence-based practices from music education, special education, and general education to help music educators reach and teach every student, including students who identify as neurodivergent and students with disabili...
Vivo Performing Arts Presents: Takács Quartet with Jordan Bak, viola
Jordan Hall
Celebrity Series of Boston is now Vivo Performing Arts. The Takács Quartet—long celebrated for their fearlessness, power, and interpretive clarity—finds a well-matched partner in American violist Jordan Bak. Like the Quartet, Bak draws praise for his power and warmth, commanding presence, and ability to captivate an audience’s attention and imagina...
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...
Liederabend LXXXII
Williams Hall
The Liederabend — literally, "evening of song" — dates back to the 1800s, when musicians and lovers of music would gather at someone's home, and one or more singers and a pianist would perform the songs of composers of the day. In the field of classical music, these songs are referred to as "art songs," and the German art songs are called "Lieder.&q...
Master Class: Nicholas Canellakis, Cello
Pierce Hall
Cellist Nicholas Canellakis presents a master class featuring students from the NEC cello studios. Nicholas Canellakis is one of today’s most sought-after and innovative cellists, whose career seamlessly blends traditional classical performance with boundary-pu...
Recital: Maxwell Fairman '26 BM, Violin
Burnes Hall
NEC's students meet one-on-one each week with a faculty artist to perfect their craft. As each one leaves NEC to make their mark in the performance world, they present a full, professional recital that is free and open to the public. It's your first look at the artists of tomorrow. Maxwell Fairman '26 BM studies Violin with Donald Weilerstein a...
Recital: Eunjoo Hong '26 MM, Viola
Brown Hall
NEC's students meet one-on-one each week with a faculty artist to perfect their craft. As each one leaves NEC to make their mark in the performance world, they present a full, professional recital that is free and open to the public. It's your first look at the artists of tomorrow. Eunjoo Hong '26 MM studies Viola with Nicholas Cords and Mai Mo...
Recital: Zev Barden "26 MM, Tuba
Keller Room
NEC's students meet one-on-one each week with a faculty artist to perfect their craft. As each one leaves NEC to make their mark in the performance world, they present a full, professional recital that is free and open to the public. It's your first look at the artists of tomorrow. Zev Barden '26 MM studies Tuba with Mike Roylance. T...
Recital: Owen Schigiel '26 MM, Bassoon
Pierce Hall
NEC's students meet one-on-one each week with a faculty artist to perfect their craft. As each one leaves NEC to make their mark in the performance world, they present a full, professional recital that is free and open to the public. It's your first look at the artists of tomorrow. Owen Schigiel '26 MM studies Bassoon with Richard Svoboda....
