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Carla Kihlstedt
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NEC: Eben Jordan Ensemble Room

Composer, performer, improviser Carla Kihlstedt winds up a three-day residency with a concert of her music, performed with Contemporary Improvisation students and faculty, reflecting the incredible...

Nima Janmohammadi
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Nima Janmohammadi is a composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist. As a performer of Persian classical music, he has studied with great masters of Persian Music, including legendary Mohammad Reza...

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NEC: Brown Hall

The Contemporary Improvisation Department opens up the year with a faculty concert, featuring performances by Ran Blake, Hankus Netsky, Eden MacAdam-Somer, Joe Morris, Nima Janmohammadi, Jerry Leake...

Leonard Bernstein sits at a piano and writes on musical score paper.
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NEC: Jordan Hall

NEC Opera joins the NEC Philharmonia in a semi-staged production of Candide, Bernstein’s comic operetta based on Voltaire's satirical novella that follows the misadventures of Candide and his beloved...

Leonard Bernstein conducting
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NEC: Jordan Hall

NEC Philharmonia’s program includes Bernstein’s Divertimento, a work written for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Symphony No. 2 by Carl Nielsen, a composer virtually unknown in America before...

Entrepreneurial Musicianship dance and music project
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NEC: Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre

NEC Students & Alumni compete for $5,000 to help develop the business side of their musicianship. A competitive application process modeled on real-world grants, finalists present at this live pitch...

Andrew Worden, Assistant Dean of EM
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"Building a life in music and developing an entrepreneurial skillset to go along with it is a process, so be patient with yourself." — Andrew Worden, Faculty and Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurial Musicianship
Balcony scene from West Side Story Tony reaches up while Maria reaches down from the balcony and their fingertips touch
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NEC: Jordan Hall

The NEC Jazz Orchestra kicks off their season with a program of Bernstein classics including selections from his beloved Broadway masterpiece West Side Story.  The program will also include Prelude...

Leonard Bernstein conducting, holding a baton in his right hand.
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NEC: Jordan Hall

The NEC Symphony’s season begins with conductor and violinist Paul Biss leading Dvořák’s “New World Symphony.”  The Bernstein centennial celebration continues with music from his rarely heard 1974...