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Concerts & Events Coming to the New England Conservatory

• Post author By Mike
• Post date January 17, 2022

Source: New England Conservatory . Selected highlights below.

Tuesday, January 18 | Callithumpian Ensemble, Steve Drury, dir. 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Thursday, February 3 | Callithumpian Ensemble, Steve Drury, dir. 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Tuesday, February 8 | Anna Webber conducts NEC Jazz Composers’ Orchestra 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall As part of her NEC residency, trailblazing composer, flutist and saxophonist Anna Webber conducts The NEC Jazz Composers’ Orchestra in her recent works for big band. She also performs with a quartet of jazz department students in a program of music from her recent release IDIOM as well as other small group pieces. Webber’s interests and work live in the aesthetic overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. Thursday, April 7 | Dave Holland Residency Performance with Jazz Ensembles 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall As part of his week-long residency, visiting artist-in-residence bassist, composer, and NEA Jazz Master Dave Holland presents a concert with student jazz ensembles. The residency is presented as part of the Grow Your Art Program and funded through an anonymous donor. Tuesday, April 12 | NEC Shivaree, Stephen Drury, dir. 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall [nec]shivaree, the NEC avant-garde ensemble directed by NEC faculty Stephen Drury, is the attack wing of NEC’s new music program, performing the modern, the new, and the avant-garde. Sounds are provided by such composers as John Cage, Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, George Crumb, Galina Ustvolskaya, and Giacinto Scelsi. The players of [nec]shivaree have worked with composers John Zorn, John Luther Adams, Christian Wolff, and Frederic Rzewski. The group gives concerts both inside and outside of the Conservatory, and has performed regularly at the Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge and Tonic and The Stone in New York. Tuesday, April 19 | Meditations on Mingus – A Centennial Celebration 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall This concert marks 100 years since the birth of seminal American composer/bassist/bandleader/ record label founder/activist/poet Charles Mingus. In honor of this centenary, faculty member Frank Carlberg will curate a concert featuring Mingus’s music as well as music inspired by Mingus. Performers include Ran Blake, Jason Moran, Jason Palmer, Nedelka Prescod, Ted Reichman, NEC Black Student Union Ensemble, The NEC Wind Ensemble, NEC Jazz Orchestra and students from the Jazz Department. Compositions from all periods of Mingus’ career are presented in a wide range of approaches ranging from faithful versions to radical re-compositions of the originals. Pieces to be performed include “Meditations On Integration,” “Fables of Faubus,” “Weird Nightmare,” “Reincarnation Of A Lovebird,” “Half-Mast Inhibition,” and others. Thursday, April 21 | The NEC Jazz Orchestra Celebrates the 100th Birthday of Charles Mingus 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall In honor of Charles Mingus’s centenary, the NEC Jazz Orchestra will perform “Mingus Fingers,” “The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife” and “Meditations on Integration.” Wednesday, May 4 | RITUAL: Directed by Anthony Coleman 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall In this concert produced by Anthony Coleman, CI students, faculty, and special guests draw from the music of weddings, funerals, and other ritual occasions and explore the ways that ritual manifests in our life and music.

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NEC is requiring DIGITAL tickets for each concert in Jordan Hall for the 2022-23 season. Tickets can be obtained digitally on each individual event page only. For questions, email us at [email protected] .

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Encore Tours is committed to supporting the local ensembles that travel with us on international music tours with our presence and participation. The Encore Staff has attended several orchestra concerts of the New England Conservatory Youth Symphony (2011 tour to Hungary, Austria, and Slovakia) and the New England Youth Philharmonic Orchestra (2011 tour with performances in Vienna [Musikverein], Prague [Rudolfinum], Bratislava [Slovak National Radio Hall], and at the International Mahler Music Festival and Smetana’s Litomysl Festival).

Encore Tour consultant Sabrina Denault has deepened our relationship with the New England Conservatory by participating as a piano student in their Continuing Education department. She performed in late April in a class recital, playing Chopin’s Nocturne in B major on a lovely Steinway. We were very proud of her!

Marilyn Roth , director of the New England Conservatory Prep School Piano Department, is particularly happy with Sabrina studying at the conservatory and working with her on the NEC Prep School Piano Department’s customized tour, “The Journey of Chopin.” Students will be performing and visiting Chopin “music sites” in Paris and the Loire Valley.

In addition to performing , students will see the composer’s Paris apartment, have a master class at the Polish Library of Paris, visit La Madeleine Church where Chopin’s funeral took place, and visit the famous Pere Lachaise Cemetery where they will see his final resting place. Chopin is buried along with several other distinguished composers, including Georges Bizet, Vincenzo Bellini, and Paul Dukas. It is certainly  a wonderful opportunity for a once-in-a-lifetime musical tour for these young musicians!

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New England Conservatory's Pioneering Jazz Studies Department Announces 2022-2023 Season

Highlights include NEC’s visiting artist-in-residence, bassist/composer and NEA Jazz Master Dave Holland in a concert with students and more.

New England Conservatory's internationally renowned Jazz Studies Department announces its 2022-2023 season with an array of concerts featuring NEC students performing with faculty and guest artists.

Highlights include NEC's visiting artist-in-residence, bassist/composer and NEA Jazz Master Dave Holland in a concert with students; a residency concert by vocalist Michael Mayo featuring live vocal looping; and other residencies to be announced.

The NEC Jazz Orchestra will present four concerts: one with guest clarinetist Don Byron, one focusing on music for voice, one focusing on Jazz and the Struggle for Freedom and Equality, and another with special guest Jim McNeely featuring music by Thad Jones. There will also be dozens of Jazz Ensemble concerts featuring rising star students. The concerts are free and open to the public. Please check the NEC website to discover which events will be livestreamed or broadcast at a later date. For information, please visit https://necmusic.edu/concerts.

Wednesday, August 31 | Jazz Jam Session 8 p.m., Brown Hall. Sunday, September 18 - Thursday, September 22 | Dave Holland Residency Thursday, September 22 | The Music of Dave Holland 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall Master bassist Dave Holland performs with NEC jazz students. Thursday, October 20 | NEC Jazz Orchestra presents Crossing the Boundaries: CMA50 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

Ken Schaphorst directs the NEC Jazz Orchestra in repertoire ranging from his own film noir interpretations to music inspired by diverse global and improvisational traditions, featuring Don Byron on clarinet. The program will include a tribute to NEC's own George Russell along with arrangements and compositions by Anthony Braxton, Melba Liston, Randy Weston and others. Monday, October 31 - Thursday, November 3 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room

Three separate, faculty-coached student ensembles perform each evening at 7, 8 and 9 p.m. Thursday, November 3 | Michael Mayo Residency Concert 7:30 p.m., Williams Hall

NEC alum Michael Mayo will share his unique approach to solo performance featuring live vocal looping, along with NEC vocalists and instrumentalists. Monday, November 7 - Thursday, November 10 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Monday, November 14 | Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Wednesday, November 16 - Thursday, November 17 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Monday, November 21 - Tuesday, November 22 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Monday, November 28 - Thursday, December 1 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Monday, December 5 - Wednesday, December 7 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Thursday, December 8 | NEC Jazz Orchestra presents If You Could See Me Now: Music for Voice 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

This concert will feature music composed and arranged for voice and jazz orchestra, from traditional jazz to more contemporary styles. Selections will include music by Cab Calloway , Tadd Dameron, Gil Evans, John Hollenbeck, Maria Schneider and Billy Strayhorn . Monday, December 12 - Thursday, December 15 | Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Tuesday, December 13 | Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall SPRING 2023 Tuesday, February 7 | Jazz and CMA Faculty Spotlight 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Tuesday, February 28 | Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra Residency 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Thursday, March 2 | NEC Jazz Orchestra presents Jazz and the Struggle for Freedom and Equality 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

The NEC Jazz Orchestra will perform landmark compositions and arrangements created to combat racism and bigotry. Selections will include Charles Mingus's "Haitian Fight Song" and selections from Duke Ellington 's "Black, Brown and Beige." NEC alum Omar Thomas will conduct his own composition, "We Will Know: an LGBT Civil Rights Piece in Four Movements." Monday, March 27 - Wednesday March 29 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Thursday, March 30 | Jazz and CMA Honors Ensemble Concert 8 p.m., Jordan Hall Monday, April 3 - Thursday, April 6 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Monday, April 10 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Wednesday, April 12 - Thursday, April 13 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Monday, April 17 - Wednesday, April 19 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Thursday, April 20 | NEC Jazz Orchestra presents Groove Merchant: The Music of Thad Jones 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

Pianist and composer Jim McNeely will join the NEC Jazz Orchestra in a celebration of the music of the legendary composer and arranger Thad Jones, born 100 years ago on March 28, 1923. Thursday, April 20 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Tuesday, April 25 | Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra Concert 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Thursday, April 27 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room Monday, May 1 - Thursday, May 4 | Jazz Ensemble Concerts 7-10 p.m., Eben Jordan Ensemble Room

The first fully accredited jazz studies program at a music conservatory, NEC's Jazz Studies Department was the brainchild of Gunther Schuller , who moved quickly to incorporate jazz into the curriculum when he became president of the Conservatory in 1967. Schuller hired Carl Atkins to head the department, as well as George Russell , Jaki Byard and Ran Blake. Among the "most acclaimed and successful in the world" (JazzTimes), the program has spawned numerous Grammy winning composers and performers and has an alumni list that reads like a who's who of jazz, while the faculty has included six MacArthur "genius" grant recipients (three currently teaching) and four NEA Jazz Masters. The foundation of its teaching and success begins with the mentor relationship developed in lessons between students and the prominent faculty artists. In addition to its two jazz orchestras, NEC's faculty-coached small ensembles reflect the Conservatory's inclusive approach to music making, with groups focused on free jazz, early jazz, gospel music, Brazilian music, and songwriting, as well as more traditional approaches to jazz performance. Each jazz student is encouraged to find their own musical voice while making connections and collaborating with a vibrant community of creative musicians, and to ultimately transform the world through the power of music. Founded by Eben Tourjée in Boston, Massachusetts in 1867, the New England Conservatory (NEC) represents a model of music school that combines the best of European tradition with American innovation. This independent conservatory stands at the center of Boston's rich cultural history and musical life, presenting concerts at the renowned Jordan Hall on Huntington Avenue, recognized as Boston's Avenue of the Arts. As a not-for-profit institution that educates and trains musicians of all ages, NEC cultivates a diverse, dynamic community, providing music students of more than 40 countries with performance opportunities and high-caliber training from 225 internationally esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. Propelled by profound artistry, bold creativity and deep compassion, NEC seeks to amplify musicians' impact on advancing our shared humanity, and empowers students to meet today's changing world head-on, equipped with the tools and confidence to forge multidimensional lives of artistic depth and relevance. NEC pushes the boundaries of music-making and teaching through college-level training in classical, jazz, and contemporary improvisation. Through unique interdisciplinary programs such as Entrepreneurial Musicianship and Community Performances & Partnerships, NEC empowers students to create their own musical opportunities. As part of NEC's mission to make lifelong music education available to everyone, the Preparatory School and School of Continuing Education deliver training and performance opportunities for children, pre-college students and adults.

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