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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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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Thu, August 1

Snapshots of Summer at NEC

Summer students flocked to NEC this summer for programs ranging from Suzuki Explorers to Jazz Lab to the Summer Orchestra Institute.

Thu, May 23

Commencement: Student Speaker Darynn Dean ’19

“We knocked harder at the doors that seemingly slammed shut and walked gracefully through the ones that opened easily upon entrance.”

Thu, May 23

Commencement: Alumni Speaker Ashleigh Gordon ’08 MM

“While you have this incredible NEC family tree to support you in the years to come, know that you are the root source for your greatest aspirations. You, the limitless potential of your creativity, the very qualities that make you who you are, are your greatest asset.”

Wed, May 22

Commencement: Jessye Norman Addresses the Class of 2019

“I trust that you are inspired to set about making your own history, your own special mark on the world—a world that is just waiting for and needing your passion and your humanity,” said legendary soprano Jessye Norman in her keynote address.

Mon, May 20

Photos: Congratulations to the Class of 2019

NEC celebrated the class of 2019 in our 148th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 19.

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Perkin Opera Scenes

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Perkin Opera Scenes

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Liederabend

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Recital: Allyson Bennett '20, Soprano

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NEC Opera presents Postcard from Morocco

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