Press Release
For Immediate Release:
November 30, 2005
New England Conservatory Student Ensembles Present Week of Chamber Music, December 11—16, 2005
New England Conservatory students will be showcased in a full week of chamber music concerts, December 11—16, 2005. A wide variety of groups, from string quartets, piano quartets, and piano trios to wind quintets, piano duos and more will offer devotees of this intimate art a musical feast. A particular highlight is the December 13 concert focusing on string quartets of Beethoven.
The groups are coached by the masters, including Paul Katz, Laurence Lesser, Lucy Stoltzman, Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, and members of the Borromeo String Quartet. All concerts are free and open to the public. The schedule follows:
December 11, Noon, 4 p.m., 7 p.m. Brown Hall. An all-day marathon.
December 12, 7 p.m., Williams Hall
December 13, 7:30 p.m., NEC’s Jordan Hall
Music of Beethoven
Tonight's concert features students from Paul Katz's seminar on Beethoven quartets.
December 16, 8:30p.m., Williams Hall
For more information, call the NEC Concert Line at (617) 585-1122 or visit NEC on the web at www.newenglandconservatory.edu/concerts
ABOUT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY
Recognized nationally and internationally as a leader among music schools, New England Conservatory offers rigorous training in an intimate, nurturing community to 750 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral music students from around the world. Its faculty of 225 boasts internationally esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. Its alumni go on to fill orchestra chairs, concert hall stages, jazz clubs, recording studios, and arts management positions worldwide. Nearly half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is composed of NEC trained musicians and faculty.
The oldest independent school of music in the United States, NEC was founded in 1867 by Eben Tourjee. Its curriculum is remarkable for its wide range of styles and traditions. On the college level, it features training in classical, jazz, Contemporary Improvisation, world and early music. Through its Preparatory School, School of Continuing Education, and Community Collaboration Programs, it provides training and performance opportunities for children, pre-college students, adults, and seniors. Through its outreach projects, it allows young musicians to engage with non-traditional audiences in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes—thereby bringing pleasure to new listeners and enlarging the universe for classical music and jazz.
NEC presents more than 600 free concerts each year, many of them in Jordan Hall, its world- renowned, 100-year old, beautifully restored concert hall. These programs range from solo recitals to chamber music to orchestral programs to jazz and opera scenes. Every year, NEC’s opera studies department also presents two fully staged opera productions at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston.
NEC is co-founder and educational partner of “From the Top,” a weekly radio program that celebrates outstanding young classical musicians from the entire country. With its broadcast home in Jordan Hall, the show is now carried by more than two hundred stations throughout the United States.