NEC Opera: Mozart "Così fan tutte"

Robert Tweten conducts NEC opera students and members of the NEC Philharmonia in two performances of Mozart's comic masterpiece about love, loyalty, and deception - Così fan tutte.  Steven Goldstein is stage director.

Jordan Hall

Faculty Recital: Meng-Chieh Liu, Piano

Great artists give free concerts at New England Conservatory--simply because they teach here. Tonight, pianist&nbsp;<a href="http://necmusic.edu/faculty/meng-chieh-liu">Meng-Chieh Liu</a>&nbsp;plays the piano sonatas by Dutilleux, Bartók, and Barber.

NEC Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra Residency Concert with Tim Berne

Tim Berne has been declared “a saxophonist and composer of granite conviction” by The New York Times. Since learning at the elbow of St. Louis master Julius Hemphill in the 70s, the Syracuse, New York-born Berne has built an expansive discography as a leader. In his pace-setting ensembles over the past few decades, he has worked with a who’s who of improvisers, including Joey Baron, Django Bates, Jim Black, Nels Cline. Mark Dresser, Marc Ducret, Michael Formanek, Drew Gress, Ethan Iverson, Dave King, Herb Robertson, Chris Speed, Steve Swell, Bobby Previte, Hank Roberts, Tom Rainey, and Craig Taborn. As a sideman, Berne has made ECM appearances on recent albums by Formanek (The Rub and Spare Change; Small Places) and David Torn (prezens). The New York Times summed him up by saying: “Few musicians working in or around jazz over the last 30 years have developed an idiomatic signature more distinctive than Tim Berne.” During his residency, Tim Berne will conduct master classes, rehearse, and perform with students. His visit will culminate in a concert in Jordan Hall in which Berne will perform his music with the Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra as well as various small groups.

NEC Chamber Orchestra: Sowande, Perkinson 

Tonight the NEC Chamber Orchestra performs Fela Sowande's African Suite&nbsp;and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's Sinfonietta No. 1. The NEC Chamber Orchestra&nbsp;was created to provide the students with an opportunity to apply the principals of chamber music in a small orchestral setting.&nbsp;The participants are chosen by audition at the beginning of the academic year and remain together throughout. As the ensemble rehearses and performs without a conductor, leadership responsibilities are rotated for every work performed. This affords the students an opportunity to develop communication skills, take responsibility for musical decisions and broaden their aural and score reading capabilities. Participation in the program also allows them to explore a wide range of the incredibly rich chamber orchestra literature. Donald Palma is the Chamber Orchestra's artistic director.

New England Conservatory, Jordan Hall

NEC Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds + Andrew McMahan, William Drury 

Guest conductor Andrew McMahan and William Drury, NEC's Conductor of Wind Ensembles, lead the NEC Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds in a program featuring Kurt Weill's Little Threepenny Music (Kleine Dreigroschenmusik), Husa's Smetana Fanfare, Omar Thomas' ('08 MM)&nbsp;Shenandoah, John Mackey's Aurora Awakes, and "Red Cape Tango" from Michael Daugherty's Metropolis Symphony. Andrew McMahan is the director of wind bands and associate professor of music at Lamar&nbsp;University. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in conducting and music&nbsp;education and serves as the artistic director and conductor of the Wind Ensemble. He also&nbsp;oversees all ensembles under the purview of the Lamar University Wind Band Program,&nbsp;including the Jazz Orchestra, Symphonic Band, Pep Band and Marching Band. He also&nbsp;serves as the artistic and administrative director of the Lamar University Summer Band&nbsp;Camp as well as the founder and director of the annual Lamar University Honors Wind&nbsp;Symphony. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Prior to his appointment at Lamar University, McMahan served as the director of wind&nbsp;bands and associate professor at Cal Poly State University, a position he held from 2010-2017. He taught courses in music theory and conducting, as well as instrumental literature&nbsp;and rehearsal techniques. He also served as administrator, artistic director and conductor&nbsp;for the Wind Ensemble. During his tenure at Cal Poly, the Wind Ensemble&nbsp;performed&nbsp;internationally, including a 12-day performance tour of England, Ireland and Scotland in&nbsp;2013. McMahan and the Cal Poly Wind Ensemble also hosted the 82 nd annual American&nbsp;Bandmasters Association convention in 2016. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Before moving to California, McMahan served as the director and principal conductor of&nbsp;the University of Minnesota Campus Orchestra. Additionally, he often appeared as a guest&nbsp;conductor with the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble, Symphonic and University&nbsp;Bands. He also served as the announcer and for the 320-member strong “Pride of&nbsp;Minnesota” Marching Band. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;McMahan spent four years as the director of instrumental studies and instructor of&nbsp;secondary music education at Simpson College, just outside of Des Moines, Iowa. He also&nbsp;served as the executive director and founder of the Simpson College Big Band Jazz Camp,&nbsp;a week-long festival of jazz studies held each June. A native of North Carolina, McMahan earned his Bachelor of Science in Music Education&nbsp;from Western Carolina University, Master of Music degree from the University of&nbsp;Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of&nbsp;Minnesota. He began his career as a high school music teacher in the suburbs of&nbsp;Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Tuesday Night New Music 6 

The newest works from the next generation of composers. Tuesday Night New Music,&nbsp;a student-run, faculty-supervised concert series,&nbsp;was founded in the early 90s by Lee Hyla.&nbsp;It&nbsp;offers audiences the opportunity to hear the music of&nbsp;current New England Conservatory composition students, performed by their peers.&nbsp;&nbsp;This year the series is directed by student composers Peter Butler ’26 and Stellan Connelly Bettany '25 under the supervision of composition chair&nbsp;Michael Gandolfi.

New England Conservatory, Brown Hall

NEC Piano Department: Fauré and His Students 

Each year, NEC's Piano Department marks an anniversary or celebrates a composer known for piano works. Students from the College and Preparatory School are then chosen to perform. This year, there will be three concerts centering on the music of Gabriel Fauré and his students. Tonight is the second of these performances. <a href="http://necmusic.edu/faculty/bruce-brubaker">Bruce Brubaker</a> is Curator of Piano Programming.

Arthur Berger Memorial Concert 

Please join us for an evening of music dedicated to the memory of NEC composition faculty member&nbsp;Arthur Berger.&nbsp;Tonight's program is curated by Sid Richardson.

Zildjians, Atlantic Records and Jazz: The Legacy of Istanbul in America

The&nbsp;<a href="https://necmusic.edu/the-college/departments/jazz-studies/">Jazz Studies Department</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://necmusic.edu/on-campus/center-for-cultural-equity-and-belonging/intercultural-institute/">Intercultural Institute</a>&nbsp;at NEC will present a series of events culminating in a unique concert featuring a mehter (so-called "Ottoman Janissary") band and the NEC Jazz Orchestra. Mehter bands were the ancestors of the European military bands, which are inherently connected to jazz big bands. Interestingly enough, it was none other than the famous Zildjian family who built cymbals for the mehter bands for more than three centuries before opening their American branch in Massachusetts. At these events we will be honoring the Zildjian legacy while focusing on two other influential families from Turkey — the Erteguns and the Mardins, who are largely responsible for the Atlantic Records' legacy. The evening concert, featuring NEC's star faculty drummer&nbsp;<a href="https://necmusic.edu/faculty/nasheet-waits/">Nasheet Waits</a>&nbsp;and celebrated saxophonist Sam Newsome, will open with a set performed by the mehter band including NEC faculty and students led by faculty member&nbsp;<a href="https://necmusic.edu/faculty/mehmet-ali-sanlikol/">Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol</a>. The first part of the concert will end with the world premiere of a new composition by Sanlıkol which will bring together the mehter band and the NEC Jazz Orchestra, led by&nbsp;<a href="https://necmusic.edu/faculty/ken-schaphorst/">Ken Schaphorst</a>. The second half of the concert will include jazz classics from the Atlantic catalogue, including John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things," Ray Charles's "Let the Good Times Roll," and Jimmy Giuffre's "The Train and the River." The concert will end with a well-known arrangement of the funk classic "Pick Up the Pieces" by the late multiple-Grammy winning Turkish-American producer Arif Mardin.&nbsp;

Recital: Yutong Sun ’25 AD, Piano

The Institute for Concert Artists at NEC (ICA at NEC) offers a transformative experience for artists of extraordinary talent who are on the threshold of major performing careers. ICA Artists are awarded NEC’s prestigious Artist Diploma and emerge from the program comprehensively equipped to navigate the demands of a professional career with confidence and vision. Yutong Sun&nbsp;’25 AD studies Piano with&nbsp;<a href="http://necmusic.edu/faculty/alexander-korsantia">Alexander Korsantia</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://necmusic.edu/faculty/dang-thai-son">Dang Thai Son</a>&nbsp;and is the recipient of the Saj-nicole A. Joni Founding Endowment Fund for the Institute for Concert Artists.

First Monday at Jordan Hall: March 

Join us as we celebrate 40 years of First Mondays, curated by Artistic Director Laurence Lesser. Programs feature well-loved classics and new compositions, performed by some of the finest chamber musicians in the world, free and open to all. First Mondays are fresh and full of imaginative pairings of well-loved classics and new works, performed in one of the finest places on the planet to hear music of this caliber: NEC’s own Jordan Hall.

 NEC Piano Department: Fauré and His Students 

Each year, NEC's Piano Department marks an anniversary or celebrates a composer known for piano works.&nbsp;Students from the College and Preparatory School are then chosen to perform.&nbsp;Tonight is the last of three programs centering on the music of Gabriel Fauré and his students. Bruce Brubaker is curator of piano programming.

NEC Symphony + Hugh Wolff, Timothy Ren '25 MM: Wagner, Elgar 

Hugh Wolff and Timothy Ren ('25 MM) share the podium for an evening of Wagner and Elgar's Enigma Variations, as performed by NEC Symphony.

Perkin Opera Scenes 2 

Enjoy an evening of scenes in the&nbsp;intimate&nbsp;setting of&nbsp;NEC's Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre. These concerts display the work that goes on daily in NEC's opera program, as faculty prepare student singers for performing careers. Perkin Opera Scenes at NEC appear under the generous sponsorship of longtime NEC supporter Winifred Perkin Gray and the Perkin Fund.

New England Conservatory, Black Box Theatre

NEC Symphonic Choir and Chamber Singers + Erica J. Washburn: Voices of NEC – One Heart

Tonight’s program, the second in a 3-year concert series for the Choral Department, celebrates contributions to the choral canon from NEC alumni. The nine compositions performed tonight are the winners of the choral composition performance competition, "Voices of NEC". &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The composers include Charles Berofsky '24 (Thou Art My Lute),&nbsp;Bosba '19 (this is the garden),&nbsp;Nell Shaw Cohen '12 (Street Haunting),&nbsp;David Hahn '80 (I Can't Breathe),&nbsp;Krishan Oberoi '96 (Telescope),&nbsp;Andrew Rindfleisch '90 (Salmo e Alabanza),&nbsp;Kevin Siegfried '05 DMA (One Heart),&nbsp;Ari Sussman '16, '18 MM (Higaleh Nah),&nbsp;and Benjamin Yee Paulson '19 MM (Song of Hope).

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