Freshman flutist is Yamaha winner

Annie Wu, who enters Elizabeth Rowe‘s studio in September as a first-year student in the Harvard/NEC program, is one of nine winners of a Yamaha Young Performing Artists award. More

Cambridge Jazz Festival

NEC artists performing in this new festival on July 27 include Fernando Brandao, George W. Russell, Jr., Dominique Eade. More

Orchestra hires span the U.S.

NEC graduates have been engaged by symphony orchestras all over the United States in the past year. More

Alumni & Family Weekend

A first look at NEC’s Alumni & Family Weekend, October 24-26, reveals activities ranging from concerts and masterclasses to jam sessions and an Entrepreneurial Musicianship expo with eighth blackbird.

Prizewinning conductor, pianist

In competitions held at the end of June, Lio Kuokman ’13 G.D. took top prize in the Evegeny Svetlanov Conducting Competition in Paris, and NEC Preparatory School student Daniel Kim took second prize in the New York International Piano Competition.

Aideen Zeitlin 1934-2014

Violinist Aideen Zeitlin, who led two of the NEC Preparatory School’s string training orchestras and taught countless young violinists, died last month in Oberlin, Ohio. More