Performances + Events
Events calendar
Connections Chamber Music 3
Burnes Hall
Connections is NEC's latest chamber music series, bringing together – on stage – faculty and students from both the College and the Preparatory School. Each program also focuses on a theme, with the aim of illuminating the connections between different works of music. Max Levinson directs the series.
Recital: Josie Larsen '25 AD, Soprano
Jordan Hall
The Artist Diploma (AD) program is NEC's highest performance program, offering a handful of especially gifted performers the opportunity to deepen and challenge their artistry, broaden their musical perspective, and explore areas of personal and professional growth. AD recitals allow audiences to observe multiple facets of emerging artists. Josie Larsen
NEC Honors Ensemble 1
Jordan Hall
Each year, an audition committee of professional musicians and faculty selects a few exceptional student ensembles to represent the NEC Honors Ensemble Program. The ensembles work with a faculty coach and are given an opportunity to perform a spring recital in NEC's Jordan Hall. The members of tonight's Honors Ensemble are TBD The live stream of this event is available...
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. Timothy Ren '25 MM and Jherrard Hardeman '25 GD conduct.
NEC Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds + Kevin Holzman, William Drury
Jordan Hall
NEC Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds, under the direction of William Drury and guest conductor Kevin Holzman, perform Giovanni Gabrieli's Sonata pian e forte (from Sacrae Sinfoniae), Carlos Simon's Go down, Moses, Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral, and David Maslanka's Symphony No. 4. To wa...
NEC Baroque Orchestra
Jordan Hall
NEC's Baroque Orchestra is part of the The Pratt Performance and Residency Series for Early Music, established by Harold I. and Frances G. Pratt at NEC in 2019, which seeks to invite and engage the NEC community with performers and scholars in the Historically Informed Performance field. Masterclasses, symposia, and performances by nationally- and internationally- recognized schol...
NEC Honors Ensemble 2
Jordan Hall
Each year, an audition committee of professional musicians and faculty selects a few exceptional student ensembles to represent the NEC Honors Ensemble Program. The ensembles work with a faculty coach and are given an opportunity to perform a spring recital in NEC's Jordan Hall. The members of tonight's Honors Ensemble are TBD The live stream of this event is available...
NEC Honors Ensemble 3
Jordan Hall
Each year, an audition committee of professional musicians and faculty selects a few exceptional student ensembles to represent the NEC Honors Ensemble Program. The ensembles work with a faculty coach and are given an opportunity to perform a spring recital in NEC's Jordan Hall. The members of tonight's Honors Ensemble are TBD The live stream of this event is available...
First Monday at Jordan Hall: April
Jordan Hall
Join us as we celebrate 40 years of First Mondays, curated by Artistic Director Laurence Lesser. Programs feature well-loved classics and new compositions, performed by some of the finest chamber musicians in the world, free and open to all. First Mondays are fresh and full of imaginative pairings of well-loved classics and new works, performed in one of the fine...
NEC Honors Ensemble 4
Jordan Hall
Each year, an audition committee of professional musicians and faculty selects a few exceptional student ensembles to represent the NEC Honors Ensemble Program. The ensembles work with a faculty coach and are given an opportunity to perform a spring recital in NEC's Jordan Hall. The members of tonight's Honors Ensemble are TBD The live stream of this event is available...
