Performances + Events
Events calendar
Tuesday Night New Music 8
Burnes Hall
The newest works from the next generation of composers. Tuesday Night New Music, a 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 ...
Song and Verse: April
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...
Chirp: NEC's Music Technology Showcase curated by Stratis Minakakis
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
New England Conservatory students electrify the Black Box Theater during Chirp, a multi-night music technology performance series showcasing live electronic music and cutting-edge music tech.
EE Faculty Recital: Clara Sandler, Mezzo Soprano
Jordan Hall
The live stream of this event is available to NEC Community members only. To watch the stream, please click the “Streaming Access” button at the top of the page and enter the NEC Community streaming password on the video window labeled “NEC-Produced Stream” when prompted.
NEC Prep: MYWE Tour Sendoff Concert
Jordan Hall
Join us for the MYWE Tour Sendoff Concert!
Vivo Performing Arts Presents: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Jordan Hall
Celebrity Series of Boston is now Vivo Performing Arts. Pierre-Laurent Aimard, one of the world’s most respected pianists, makes a long-anticipated Vivo Performing Arts debut with his signature intellect, expressiveness, and clarity. Join Aimard for an 88-key journey though the 24 keys of the preludes and fugues of Book II of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier...
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: NEC Composers' Series and The Robert Ceely Electronic Music Studio
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...
