Performances + Events
Performances + Events
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Performances + Events
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Events calendar
CANCELLED – CEB Workshop: Navigating Difficult Dialogue in the Classroom
Burnes Hall
Navigating Difficult Dialogue in the Classroom This interactive and experiential workshop will explore strategies to facilitate dialogue in the classroom. This will include how to prepare for dialogue, sharing community agreements, creating a sense of community, navigating heated, offensive, or tense (HOT) moments, and facilitation techniques. Dr. Ropp will share dialogu…
Residency Concert: GEORGE
Eben Jordan Ensemble Room
GEORGE is the new band formed by genre-crossing composer / percussionist John Hollenbeck, featuring Co-chair of NEC Jazz Studies Anna Webber (flute / tenor saxophone), Sarah Rossy (voice / keyboard), and chiquitamagic (keyboard / voice). Renowned in both jazz and new-music worlds, Hollenbeck ha…
Recital: Evren Ozel '25 AD, Piano
Jordan Hall
The Institute for Concert Artists at NEC (ICA at NEC) offers a transformative experience for artists of extraordinary talent who are on the threshold of major performing careers. ICA Artists are awarded NEC’s prestigious Artist Diploma and emerge from the program comprehensively equipped to navigate the demands of a professional career with confidence and vision. Evren Ozel…
What Musicians Can Learn About Practicing from Current Brain Research
This presentation will focus on what neuroscientists have discovered about how our brains learn and how to apply these insights to practicing and teaching so that practicing becomes more efficient and effective, leading to enhanced performance ability, enjoyment, and confidence. Topics include: how to get rid of bad habits, how to make things automatic/reliable on stage, the role of sleep in le…
Tuesday Night New Music 2
Brown 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 …
Recital: Josh Gagnon '27 DMA, Jazz Trombone
Pierce Hall
Josh Gagnon is joined by tenor saxophonist Hunter McKay, trombonist Joey Dies, pianist George Maclaurin, bassist Nick Isherwood, and drummer Carlo Kind in performances of works by "J.J." Johnson, David Raskin, Richard Rodgers, Kai Winding, Harry Woods, and "Lil" Hardin Armstrong. The live stream of this event is available to NEC Community members only. To watch th…
CEB Dialogue Cafe: Difficult Dialogue with Family and Friends
Center for CEB, SB 203
How to Navigate Tough Conversations with Family and Friends Navigating difficult dialogue, misunderstandings, differing beliefs, and heated conversations with our loved ones, close friends, family members, and partners. The goal of the CEB Dialogue Cafe is to learn how to hold brave dialogue using story, through difficult topics while holding space for differing perspectives. We …
CEB Dialogue Cafe: Difficult Dialogue with Family and Friends
Center for CEB, SB 203
How to Navigate Tough Conversations with Family and Friends Navigating difficult dialogue, misunderstandings, differing beliefs, and heated conversations with our loved ones, close friends, family members, and partners. The goal of the CEB Dialogue Cafe is to learn how to hold brave dialogue using story, through difficult topics while holding space for differing perspectives. We …
NEC Symphony + David Loebel: Thomas, Prokofiev, Beethoven
Jordan Hall
David Loebel conducts the NEC Symphony in a performance of Augusta Read Thomas' Sunburst, the Suite No. 2 from Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. The live stream of this event is available to NEC Comm…
Perkin Opera Scenes 1
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
Enjoy an evening of scenes in the intimate setting of NEC's Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre. These concerts display the work that goes on daily in NEC's opera program, as faculty prepare student singers for performing careers. Perkin Opera Scenes at NEC appear under the generous sponsorship of longtime NEC supporter Winifred Perkin Gray and the Perkin Fun…
