Press Release
For Immediate Release:
January 18, 2006
New England Conservatory Large Ensembles Announce Spring Semester Programs
NEC’s four orchestral ensembles will present wide-ranging programs—with composers from Mozart to Shostakovich to John Adams—in concerts throughout the Spring semester. Several concerts will include concertos featuring student soloists who are winners of the Conservatory’s annual concerto competitions. All concerts are free and open to the public. All take place at 8 p.m. in NEC’s Jordan Hall.
February 8, 2006 – NEC Symphony
Joseph Silverstein, conductor
Bedrich Smetana: Ma Vlast: Vlatava (The Moldau)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no. 36, K. 424, C major, (“Linz”)
John Adams: Slonimsky's Earbox
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 5, op. 107, D major (“Reformation”)
February 13, 2006 – NEC Philharmonia
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Jean Sibelius: Symphony no. 4, op. 63, A minor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 6, op. 68, F major “Pastoral”)
February 15, 2006 – NEC Sinfonietta
John Page, conductor
Leonard Bernstein: Overture to “Candide”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no. 34, K. 338, C major (w/ Minuet K. 409)
Paul Dukas: Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9
March 1, 2006 – NEC Chamber Orchestra (conductorless orchestra)
Donald Palma, coach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia concertante, K. 297b (winds)
Béla Bartók: Divertimento
April 5, 2006 – NEC Sinfonietta
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Aaron Copland: Inscape
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 25, K. 503, C Major –
Yelena Beriyeva, piano soloist
Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 1, op. 68, C Major
April 10, 2006 – NEC Chamber Orchestra (conductorless orchestra)
Donald Palma, coach
Wofgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia concertante, K.364 (vln, vla)
Benjamin Britten:Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, Op.10
April 19, 2006 – NEC Philharmonia
Joseph Silverstein, conductor
Mario Davidovsky:Concertino (violin soloist, TBD)
Montsalvatge: Cinco canciones negras – Nicole Percifield, soprano, soloist
Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations
April 24, 2006 – NEC Sinfonietta, NEC Concert Choir
Amy Liebermann, conductor
Johannes Brahms: German Requiem
Wofgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus
Schuetz: Psalm 116 – NEC Chamber Singers
April 26, 2006 – NEC Symphony
David Loebel, conductor
Antonin Dvorak: Carnival Overture, op. 92
Program to include string competition winner
Robert Schumann: Symphony no. 1, op. 38, Bb major (“Spring”)
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 National Public Radio and is heard on 250 stations throughout the United States.