NEC Wind Ensembles
NEC Wind Ensemble
Director: Charles Peltz
NEC Wind Ensemble offers students an opportunity to play literature from the Renaissance through the present day for wind, brass, and percussion. Each year a number of students and faculty appear as soloists in Wind Ensemble concerts.
The ensemble has performed at Boston-area museums and schools, as well as numerous national music conferences. In February 2005 the NEC Wind Ensemble was selected to perform in New York's Carnegie Hall, as part of the College Band Directors National Association biannual conference.
During the past two decades, the Wind Ensemble has commissioned and premiered new works by Pulitzer Prize composers Michael Colgrass, John Harbison, and Gunther Schuller, plus other distinguished composers such as Sir Michael Tippett, Daniel Pinkham, and William Thomas McKinley. Through performances and recordings, the Wind Ensemble has established a reputation as one of the country’s premier wind ensembles.
NEC Jordan Winds
Director: William Drury
NEC Jordan Winds performs woodwind, brass, and percussion repertoire from the Renaissance through the present day for octet to full wind ensemble. Important works that are sometimes neglected because of unusual instrumentation form an integral part of four annual Jordan Hall concerts. Jordan Winds also reads standard orchestral repertoire that serves to improve members’ ensemble skills.
Albany Records has recently released recordings by these ensembles:
NEC Wind Ensemble: Live from Jordan Hall
NEC Jordan Winds: Bronze Music