Cultivate your unique voice

and develop your artistry at NEC.

Voice & Opera

Explore cutting edge voice science and pedagogy in our Voice and Sound Analysis Laboratory.

Apply your skills in the many performing opportunities at NEC including opera productions, opera scenes programs, workshops of new operas, Liederabend Song Series performances, and choral concerts including major works with orchestra and student soloists.

Cultivate your unique voice and develop your artistry at NEC.

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Devoted, curious, and motivated to continue studying music?

New England Conservatory is an environment where you can learn, explore, and create.

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What We Do

You have to find who you are...You find what is unique about you.

Kyle BejnerowiczVoice

Jaime Korkos, Hae Ji Chang, and the New England Conservatory Philharmonia in a semi-staged performance of "Vieni Appaga Il Tuo Consorte" from Gluck's Orfeo e Euridice.

The incomparable Marilyn Horne visits New England Conservatory for a masterclass with student Nataly Wickham.

My lessons—that's what fires me up. Thinking, "Oh my god, it's almost Tuesday; I almost get to sing for Ms. Haber!"

Ilanah Lobel-TorresUndergraduate Voice

Ilanah Lobel-Torres on what it's like to study with her teacher, Carole Haber.

Erica Washburn leads the New England Conservatory Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, and Symphonic Winds ensemble in a performance of Howard Hanson's Song of Democracy featuring text by Walt Whitman.

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Beyond the Studio

What’s in your professional toolkit?

At NEC, you’ll strengthen your music with skills outside of music. In Community Performances & Partnerships, you’ll pitch programming and perform for diverse audiences. In Entrepreneurial Musicianship you’ll make new ventures happen, start to finish. And in Liberal Arts you’ll sharpen the intellectual and communications skills artists need to go farther.

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Soloists, chorus and orchestra perform Beethoven's Ninth

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Recent News

Tue, January 7

New Year News

Celebrating job successes, awards, and more from alumni & students Lei Liang, Wenhong Luo, Rafael Popper-Keizer, Jeff vom Saal, Tessa Lark, Stella Chen, Alex LoRe, Ronell Warmuth, & Samantha Frenduto.

Fri, November 22

Grow Your Art Grant Winners Win Project Support From NEC

First prize of $7,500 plus project coaching from EM (Entrepreneurial Musicianship) at NEC was awarded to current student Naledi Masilo for her Dreaming Girls Music Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Thu, October 3

Chad Smith ’95, ’98 MM Named Executive Director of Los Angeles Philharmonic

Smith steps into the chief executive role having formerly served as the orchestra’s chief operating officer.

Fri, September 6

Convocation Remarks from President Andrea Kalyn

“We have the opportunity to inspire an objectively challenged world—with the beauty, brilliance, optimism, and courage inherent in the creation, study, and sharing of music,” says President Kalyn at the start of the 2019-20 school year.

Thu, September 5

Convocation Remarks from Student Speaker Robyn Smith

Returning master's student Robyn Smith kicked off the school year with remarks on finding community and personal growth through campus clubs—the Black Student Union, the NEC Christian Fellowship, and the Initiative for Social Change.

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Featured Events

Soprano Lisa Saffer teaches in her studio

Wed, February 5

Liederabend

A collaborative pianist performs with a singer

Wed, February 5

Wed, February 26

Wed, April 15

Liederabend

Tue, February 11

Wed, February 12

NEC Opera + Philharmonia: Mozart's Idomeneo

Tue, February 11

Wed, February 12

NEC Opera + Philharmonia: Mozart's Idomeneo

Sat, February 22

Recital: Katelyn Hemling '20 MM, Soprano

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