Performances + Events
Events calendar
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...
Contemporary Musical Arts Presents: Old Weird America - Diving into the Harry Smith Archives
Jordan Hall
Step into the strange, wondrous, and deeply human sound-world of America’s roots as NEC’s Department of Contemporary Musical Arts brings new life to the legendary Harry Smith Archives. Old Weird America and the Harry Smith Archives features students, faculty, and special guests trumpeter Frank London and fiddler Suzy Thompson. This immersive concert experience reimagines folk...
Chamber Music Showcase | April 28 | 7:30 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...
NEC Lab Orchestra + Graduate Student Conductors
Brown Hall
NEC’s conducting students have ascended to some of the world’s most auspicious podiums, and here is your chance to see and hear them as they begin their careers. Clancy Ellis ’26 GD, Joseph Bozich ’28 DMA, and Leonard Bopp ’27 GD conduct their orchestral colleagues tonight. The ...
Recital: Yuan Du '26 MM, Tenor
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. Yuan Du '26 MM studies Voice with Jane Eaglen. The l...
Recital: Joe Wagner '26 MM, Jazz Saxophone
Eben Jordan
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. Joe Wagner '26 MM studies Jazz Saxophone with Benjamin Schwende...
Recital: Tzu-Ya Huang '26 BM, Violin
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. Tzu-Ya Huang '26 BM studies Violin with Paul Biss. T...
Liederabend LXXXII: Song Lab presents Poems and Songs
Brown 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.&...
NEC Philharmonia + Hugh Wolff: Mazzoli, Britten, and Strauss
Jordan Hall
Hugh Wolff and the NEC Philharmonia open tonight's program with Missy Mazzoli's Holy Roller, which she describes as "devotional music for a non-existent religion." This is followed by Benjamin Britten's Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra, ...
NEC Conductors' Choir concert: Sleep and Dreams
Burnes Hall
NEC's Conductors' Choir, led by the graduate students of Erica J. Washburn, perform a program of works linked by the theme of sleep and dreams. 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...
