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Double bassist Cecil McBee got his start with the Paul Winter Sextet, and earned international acclaim in the mid-60s touring with Charles Lloyd and Pharoah Sanders. He went on to perform around the...

Thomas Martin began his professional career as a clarinetist, saxophonist and flutist at the age of 13, performing with several big bands and combos in his native Wisconsin. He joined the Boston...

Katarina Markovic is a musicologist and pianist specializing in late- and post-Romantic music.

Markovic completed her Ph.D. at Brandeis University in 2004 with a dissertation entitled “The World of...

John Mallia's compositional process is informed by spatial constructs and concepts, and a fascination with presence, ritual, and the thresholds standing between states of existence or awareness. In...

Acoustic and electric bassist John Lockwood has toured the U.S. and Europe with Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Gary Burton, the Mel Lewis Big Band, and The Fringe. He has also performed with the...

A member of the New England Conservatory faculty since 1974, and president of the school from 1983 through 1996 (following a year as artistic director), Laurence Lesser teaches College and Preparatory...

Ruth Lepson has been poet-in-residence at NEC for 25 years. She has collaborated with musicians here, and her latest book of poems, Ask Anyone (from Pressed Wafer), comes with settings of some of the...

Jerry Leake Jerry Leake is the founder of the world-rock-fusion octet Cubist whose three critically acclaimed CD’s feature his diverse talent as a composer, arranger, and performer. Jerry is the co...

As a soloist and chamber musician flutist Renée Krimsier has made a name for herself in the areas of contemporary and classical repertoire.

She is former director of and performer in the "Intermezzi"...

Dubbed “a major artist” by the Miami Herald and a “quiet maverick” by the Daily Telegraph, pianist Alexander Korsantia has been praised for the “clarity of his technique, richly varied tone and...