Performances + Events
Events calendar
Perkin Opera Scenes | Night 1
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
The NEC Opera Department invites you to our bi-annual opera scenes program! Experience an evening of comedy and tragedy through highlights from opera's greatest masterpieces. Stage direction by Joshua Major and
Sonata Night 60: Mendelssohn and Brahms
Burnes Hall
Under the direction of NEC faculty pianist Pei-Shan Lee, 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 ...
Christian Wolff Composition Seminar
Keller Room
The Composition Department welcomes composer Christian Wolff as part of NEC's Morton Feldman and Earle Brown Centennial Symposium to discuss his music and what it was like working alongside Brown and Feldman. This even...
Town Hall Cadenzas: How Musicians Underscore Words, Ideas, and Hope
Eben Jordan Ensemble Room and Virtual
In this conversation, workshop, and feedback session, composer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) will discuss his forthcoming commission for the American Composers Orchestra, America, To US, for electric violin, orchestra, and people. DBR’s town hall cadenzas allow audience members to participate in this work, and he will present his ideas on the responsibilities of community-based composition...
NEC Chamber Singers + Erica J. Washburn | Liminal Spaces
Jordan Hall
Tonight's concert is a collaboration among NEC Chamber Singers, CMA students Yilin Chen (percussion) and Avi Randall (piano), percussionist Abel Zhou, and students in two Liberal Arts classes taught by Patrick Keppel, The Art of the Monologue and Storytelling and Shakespeare: T...
Piano Seminar: Earle Brown and Morton Feldman Conference
Keller Room
Join us for a session on music by Morton Feldman and Earle Brown, hosted by the NEC Piano Department.
Perkin Opera Scenes | Night 2
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
The NEC Opera Department invites you to our bi-annual opera scenes program! Experience an evening of comedy and tragedy through highlights from opera's greatest masterpieces. Stage direction by Joshua Major and
Cambridge Symphony Orchestra Presents: Masterworks: Brahms, Poulenc & Bach
Jordan Hall
Start your Halloween weekend with an evening of hauntingly beautiful music at Jordan Hall. From the unmistakably gothic opening of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor to Brahms’ deeply moving meditation on mortality in Nänie and the radiant joy of Poulenc’s Gloria, this program moves from darkness toward light. Featuri...
Recital: Nan Ni '27 DMA, Piano
Williams Hall
In the course of completing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at New England Conservatory, performance majors present not just one, but three full-length recitals, for which they also write program notes. It's an opportunity to observe multiple facets of an emerging artist. Nan Ni ‘27 DMA studies Piano with Bruce Brubaker and...
NEC Touring Children's Opera | Little Red Riding Hood
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
Kick off your day of Halloween family fun with Seymour Barab's Little Red Riding Hood! Our annual children's show is the perfect way to introduce kids (and adults!) to the magic and mystery of opera. Come early and join New England Conservatory's Early Childhood Department from 9:30-10:00 am for musical crafts in the lobby! Decorate your own Little Red Riding Hood basket, fol...
