Performances + Events
Performances + Events
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Performances + Events
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Events calendar
Laurie Smukler Chamber Music Master Class
Pierce Hall
Laurie Smukler presents a master class featuring ensembles from the NEC Chamber Music program. Laurie Smukler began her studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music and started playing as a soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra at 14. She earned her BM from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Ivan Galamian; other Juilliard faculty who have had a powerful influence on her developme…
Natasha Brofsky Chamber Music Master Class
Pierce Hall
Natasha Brofsky presents a master class featuring ensembles from the NEC Chamber Music program. Natasha Brofsky is cellist of the Naumburg Award-winning Peabody Trio, which has performed on leading chamber music series throughout the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.. The trio has been heard on numerous radio broadcasts, and has recorded on the New World, CRI, and Artek labels. She has performe…
Seth Knopp Chamber Music Master Class
Pierce Hall
Seth Knopp presents a master class featuring ensembles from the NEC Chamber Music program. Seth Knopp, piano (Putney, VT), was a founding member of the award-winning Peabody Trio, winner of the 1989 Naumburg Award and the Peabody Institute’s Ensemble-in-Residence from 1987-2017. After making its Alice Tully Hall debut in 1990, the trio performed on the most important cham…
NEC Festival: Contemporary Musical Arts Today – A Global Vision Realized
Jordan Hall
The Contemporary Musical Arts program will celebrate Gunther Schuller’s 100th birthday with a concert focusing on how his daringly inclusive musical and educational vision transformed NEC into a global artistic musical scene. Schuller's legacy, carried forward from the 1970s through the early 2000s by our emeritus chair,
Tuesday Night New Music 4
Williams 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 …
NEC Festival: NEC Symphony + David Loebel – Schuller and Stravinsky’s Firebird
Jordan Hall
Among Gunther Schuller’s many important contributions to our musical life was his passionate advocacy of American music of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Composers of that era whom he championed include Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, John Knowles Paine, and one of his predecessors as the leader of NEC, George Whitefield Chadwick.
Recital: Bowen Li '25 MM, Piano
Williams 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. Bowen Li '25 MM studies Piano with
Discussion with Cristi Catt: The Life and Work of Ella Jenkins
Eben Jordan Ensemble Room
This talk celebrates the life and music of Ella Jenkins, pioneering musician, educator, and cultural ambassador often referred to as “The First Lady of Children’s Music.” Through seven decades of performing, recording, and teaching, Jenkins transformed what children’s music could be, deeply rooted in African American traditions, globally inclusive, and radically particip…
Panel Discussion: Gunther Schuller and Jazz
Eben Jordan Ensemble Room
Join us for a discussion with Carl Atkins, Fred Hersch, George Schuller, and Ken Schaphorst about the creation of the first fully accredited jazz studies program in a conservatory at NEC in 1969, along with a reflection on Schuller’s personal involvement in jazz as a conductor, composer, and performer.
Composer Celka Ojakangas Discussion
SB G01
Join us for a conversation with composer Celka Ojakangas, the winner of the Gunther Schuller Centennial Third Stream Composition Contest. Ojakangas’s music plays with hybridism and recontextualization, intentionally exploring and blurring the boundaries between culturally-defined genres for a resultant fun and eclectic palette of textures, rhythms, and grooves. Themes that will be di…
