Performances + Events
Annual Scholarship Gala
Celebrate the visionary excellence of NEC and inspire our students to champion transformative change in the world with your generous support of scholarship.
Thank you to all who supported our 2025 Scholarship Gala! For more information about next year’s event, please contact events@necmusic.edu.
Gala
Co-Chairs
Anna Goldenheim
Ed Graves, Jr. ’87 MM
Fundraising
Committee
Annie and Samuel Bartlett
Joe Bower ’18 hon. DM and Liz Potter
Kim McCaslin
Tim Fulham and Lise Olney
Gala
Co-Chairs
Anna Goldenheim
Ed Graves, Jr. ’87 MM
Fundraising
Committee
Annie and Samuel Bartlett
Joe Bower ’18 hon. DM and Liz Potter
Kim McCaslin
Tim Fulham and Lise Olney
Tables + Tickets
- Provide the highest level of tuition scholarship for NEC students
- Dinner for 10 guests
- Pre-dinner cocktail reception
- After-dinner music, sweets and cocktails
- Listing on the invitation, program and website†
- Complimentary event parking for you and your guests
- Provide essential scholarship support for NEC students
- Dinner for 10 guests
- Pre-dinner cocktail reception
- After-dinner music, sweets and cocktails
- Listing on the invitation, program and website†
- Provide essential scholarship support for NEC students
- Dinner for 10 guests
- Pre-dinner cocktail reception
- After-dinner music, sweets and cocktails
- Listing on the invitation, program and website†
- Provide essential scholarship support for NEC students
- Pre-dinner cocktail reception
- Dinner for 1 guest
- After-dinner music, sweets and cocktails
*Your gift must be received by April 26, 2025.
†Subject to timing/scheduling constraints where noted; make your commitment soon for maximum benefit.
**Please note that while gifts to the NEC Scholarship Fund may be made using a Donor Advised Fund, IRS regulations prohibit the use of Donor Advised Funds for tickets and table purchases as goods, services and/or benefits are offered in exchange.
Planning Your Visit to NEC
If you are in need of hotel accommodations for the evening of April 26, please contact the Four Seasons, 2 Dalton Street, Boston, at (617) 377.4888 and request the Reservations Department.
Please refer to the NEC 2025 Gala Room Block when making your reservation. The rate to stay for the evening is $595. Space is limited to first come, first served.
Self-parking is available at the following locations:
- Gainsborough Garage: 10 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
- Westland Garage: 35 Westland Ave, Boston, MA
- Christian Science Plaza Garage: 235 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
More Ways to Give
Scholarship Support
With your generous support, NEC students can reach their full artistic potential and change the world.
Scholarship GiftMaking an Impact
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Corporate Sponsorships
Partner with NEC to amplify your company’s visibility as a corporate sponsor.
NEC offers our corporate sponsors a range of benefits throughout the year in the form of brand recognition and visibility to a variety of constituencies served by the conservatory.
2025 Donors
Virtuosos
Tom and Lisa Blumenthal
Kennett F. Burnes ’22 hon. D.M. and Barbara Burnes
Anna and David Goldenheim
Eric and Sene Gray
Blair and Jackie Hendrix
Wendy Shattuck ’75 and Samuel Plimpton
Harold I. Pratt ’17 hon. DM and Frances G. Pratt †
David W. Scudder ’03 hon. DM
Musical Innovators
Deborah Bennett Elfers ’82
Barbara Winter Glauber
Barbara and Amos Hostetter
Edwin D. Graves, Jr. ’87 MM and Lee T. Sprague
Community Collaborators
Anne and Samuel Bartlett
Hope Lincoln Baker
Enid L. Beal and Alan Wolfe
Andrea Kalyn
Melody L. McDonald ’70 MM
Meg and David Nichols
Timothy W. Fulham and Lise M. Olney
Murray Metcalfe and Louise Burnham Packard
Joseph L. Bower ’18 hon. DM and Elizabeth Potter
Robert and Barbara Rosiello
Michael and Susan T. Thonis
2025 Sponsors
Brown Advisory
Collegiate Press
EMCOR Services Northeast
Encore Tours
HUB International New England
Nixon Peabody LLP
PEAK Event Services
Shawmut Communications Group
Sweetwater Sound, Inc.
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