Performances + Events
Events calendar
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...
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: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano
Williams Hall
This master class is made possible by Edith Michelson Milender in honor of her mother Mildred Levinson ‘29. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is the 2025-26 Mildred Levinson Piano Artist-in-Residence. Award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys a prolific recording and international concert career, with his playing described as possessing “exquisite sensibilité, delivered with ...
NEC Prep: Youth Brass Ensemble, Junior Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble
Jordan Hall
Join us for the Youth Brass Ensemble, Junior Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble Concert!
NEC Prep: Harp Recital
Keller Room
Celebrate the talents of our young harpists at the NEC Prep Spring 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.
Synergy: Jazz + CMA Faculty in Concert
Jordan Hall
Join us for an evening of collaboration and creativity when faculty from NEC’s Jazz and Contemporary Musical Arts departments come together on one stage. Synergy showcases the unique voices of NEC’s renowned artists celebrating connection through sound.
Song and Verse: March
Burnes Hall
Inaugurated in the fall of 2020, the Song and Verse recital series provides a platform for undergraduate singers at NEC to experience the unique and invigorating process of song preparation and performance — creating interpretations, building performance skills, and forging intellectual and musical connections with a wide literature. Working closely with Vocal Arts...
NEC Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro | Night 2
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
The NEC Opera Department presents Mozart's classic comic opera, Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Robert Tweten and directed by Joshua Major. To watch a live stream of this event, click the “Streaming Access” button at the top of the page.
