Balla Kouyate plays the balafon and sings while leading students in the West African Ensemble
NEC Faculty Balla Kouyaté Named 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellow
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts to Balla Kouyaté, balafon player, djeli, and Contemporary Improvisation faculty member.
A video "play" button overlaid on a picture of Robert Bui, with his name printed underneath and the N-E-C logo
Q&A with Composer Robert Bui ’21: “This Piece Stands as a Tribute”
Robert Bui ’21 won this year's Orchestra Composition Competition with a piece inspired by family history and opposition to censorship and violence.
Jazz musician Jamie Saft looks at the camera. He wears a long beard, sunglasses, and a white T-shirt.
Jamie Saft ’94 in Jazz Journal: ‘It’s either good music, or it’s not’
Jamie Saft ’94, an alumnus of the Tufts/NEC dual degree program, discusses his wide-ranging musical influences and the diversity of his NEC education.
L-R: competition director Simon Pickel, competitors Joshua Brown, Karisa Chiu and Kaoru Oe, and competition artistic director Linus Roth.
Joshua Brown ’22 Wins Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition
Brown studies with Donald Weilerstein and joins a legacy of previous NEC first prize winners.
Four people hold up a giant check made out to Teach to Learn
NEC Alumni Win First Prize at MIT Creative Arts Competition
 Derek Beckvold ’09 and Robert Jordon ’09 launched an online global music mentorship program with MIT student Mark Adams.
Donald Weilerstein holds his bow over his violin and smiles while teaching a student
Blue Sky Teaching with Donald Weilerstein
The Strad explores NEC violin faculty Donald Weilerstein's unique teaching methods in a profile of innovative string educators.
Robyn Smith plays trombone
Boston BEAM Kicks Off With A Community Celebration
Boston Bridge to Equity and Achievement in Music (BEAM) is a region‐wide collective for supporting and sustaining musical excellence among young musicians of underrepresented populations who aspire to careers in the classical music professions.
Artist rendering of Concert for One, which shows shipping containers where musicians can perform and people can listen
Alumna Rayna Yun Chou's "Concert for One" to Present 5,000 Concerts with Celebrity Series
The Boston Globe previews “Concert for One,” the idea of EM Grant winner Rayna Yun Chou ’15, ’17 MM and presented by Celebrity Series.
Performers take a bow in Jordan Hall while the audience stands and applauds
New England Conservatory Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Groundbreaking Jazz Department
Jazz50 celebration features concerts in Boston and NYC with distinguished faculty, alumni, and students performing.
Sean Gallagher Headshot
Music History Faculty Sean Gallagher Inducted to Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars
Gallagher is the first musician or music historian to be elected to the Society in its 52-year history.