NEC Update Vol. 2, No. 3, October 24, 2005

NEC's new choral director

photo by Miro Vintoniv

After a year in an interim role, Amy Lieberman has been named NEC's Director of Choral Activities. She has planned a season of choral concerts at NEC that begins October 24 with a program of German music in NEC's Jordan Hall.

Lieberman has led choruses at Boston University, Yale, Stanford, and Wilkes University, and is familiar to Boston audiences as a popular pre-concert lecturer for the Cantata Singers, where she has also been an assistant conductor.

Explore NEC's faculty, beginning with Amy Lieberman.

Silverstein, Zander conduct

photo by Miro Vintoniv

Joseph Silverstein, NEC's new Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of Orchestras, and Benjamin Zander lead NEC's student orchestras in back-to-back Jordan Hall concerts, October 26 and 29.

October 26: Silverstein conducts the NEC Symphony Orchestra in music of Brahms, Bartok, Wagner, and Dvorak.

October 29: A rare free-admission Saturday night concert in Jordan Hall has Zander conducting the NEC Philharmonia in his specialty: Mahler.

Explore NEC concerts and programs day by day.

NEC Board of Visitors makes annual visit

photo by Paul A. Cortese '92 M.M.

The corporate and community leaders who make up NEC's Board of Visitors will literally visit the NEC campus on October 28 for a day of activities designed to acquaint them with NEC's educational and artistic programs. A major focus of the day will be NEC's pianos. Visitors will hear some of NEC's top piano students in a masterclass, then tour studios for an assessment of NEC's stock of practice pianos.

Board of Visitors Chair Kennett Burnes (in photo, with President Daniel Steiner) and his fellow board members act as ambassadors and advocates on behalf of NEC in the community.

Find out more about NEC's Board of Visitors.

Alumni gather on Cape Cod

The many NEC alumni who are year-round residents of Cape Cod began meeting as a group last year (in photo). This year's meeting revolves around a concert by the Cape Symphony Orchestra on November 5, in which cellist Wendy Law '00 is the featured soloist.

Find out more about this and other NEC alumni events.

NEC brings "Kids in Harmony"

On December 1, NEC opens Jordan Hall to a new type of event, "Kids in Harmony." Two hundred and fifty young people, from Boston and all over New England, will fill the stage with orchestral, choral, and jazz music performed by the NEC Preparatory School's flagship ensembles. "From the Top" radio host Christopher O'Riley '81 A.D. will set the tone as soloist in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. An awards dinner preceding the concert will honor O'Riley and other world leaders in music and music education.

We invite you to take part in this evening that celebrates NEC's impact on youth music, locally, nationally, and globally. Proceeds from the evening's events will provide critical scholarship support to sustain NEC's commitment to serving students of all financial backgrounds through its Community Collaborations and Partnership programs and to expand the assistance it can offer.

Register for this and other special events.

New issue of NEC's Notes magazine

Notes magazine is for everyone: alumni, students, parents, faculty, and friends of New England Conservatory. The current issue--covering news from spring and summer 2005--is available in PDF form, with stories of NEC milestones and triumphs, class notes and recordings from NEC alumni, a feature on "Alumni Who Give Back," and information on President Steiner's resignation and the search for a new NEC President.

Download PDFs of Notes magazine--and submit a class note online.