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A founding member of the Boston-based Jazz Composers Alliance, an organization in the tradition of jazz composer-directed ensembles dedicated to the promotion of new music in the jazz idiom, trumpeter...

Francesca Santovetti received a doctorate, summa cum laude, from the University of Rome La Sapienza in English and Comparative Literature, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles...

Felicia Sandler’s primary research area is the music of Ghana. She has been a fellow at the Institute of African Studies, (2016 and 2018), while working on a critical edition of the collected works of...

Mike Roylance is Principal Tuba with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he occupies the Margaret and William C. Rousseau chair.

At Rollins College, in Winter Park, Fla., Roylance served on the...

Paula Robison has played a major role internationally in redefining the flute as a solo instrument. At NEC, she occupies a teaching chair endowed in 2005 by Charles "Chuck" and Donna Hieken, with...

Jean Rife continues to enjoy a varied, interesting, and challenging musical career. Early in her professional life, she joined in the developing Early Music movement, joining the newly-formed...

Saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky has appeared as soloist with leading orchestras and ensembles throughout the world, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and New York Philharmonic under the...

Malcolm Peyton has directed, conducted, and concertized in many new music concerts in Boston and New York, including most recently The Composers Series in NEC's Jordan Hall. He is also developing new...

Besides his work with wind ensembles, Charles Peltz is music director of the Glens Falls Symphony, and has conducted symphony orchestras including the Syracuse Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Merrick...

An award winning cellist, Carol Ou is known for her “fiery, marvelous” and “meltingly melodic outpourings” (Boston Globe) and her “wonderfully pure cello tone and incisive technique.” (The Strad) A...