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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Recent News

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.

Wed, September 4

Rachele Schmiege ’07 MM Joins The Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Schmiege studied with Carole Haber while earning her Master of Music at NEC.

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.”

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Featured Events

Fri, September 20

Lecture | Saint-Saëns' Henry VIII: Resurrecting and Rebuilding a Forgotten Opera

Wed, October 16

Liederabend

Wed, October 30

Thu, October 31

Perkin Opera Scenes

Wed, October 30

Thu, October 31

Perkin Opera Scenes

Wed, November 6

Liederabend

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