Return to Symphony Hall

Tickets are now on sale for the NEC Philharmonia‘s April 23 concert in Boston’s Symphony Hall, their first appearance there since 2010. Once again, Hugh Wolff conducts a program that includes a major Shostakovich symphony.More
 

Student orchestral premiere

Chosen by competition to appear on the April 9 NEC Symphony concert conducted by Paul Biss, second-year undergraduate Jonas Tarm‘s Headline Hues kicks off an initiative to present an orchestral work by a student composer each spring. More
 

AAAL music award winners

Faculty member Kati Agocs and alumni Scott Wheeler ’78 M.M., Dan Tepfer ’05 M.M., and Nathan Shields ’06 are among the composers named this month by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for 2014 Music Awards.More
 

Good news from Austin

Just before SXSW took over Austin, Texas, violinist In Mo Yang ’17, a student of Miriam Fried, took second prize in theMenuhin Competition held there. More
 

NEC at All-State

At the Massachusetts Music Educators Association’s All-State Conference in Boston this week, NEC will be an exhibitor, and presenters will include NEC Continuing Education Director Sean Hagon as well as a number of NEC alumni.March 20-22
 

From the Top at youth summit

The From the Top radio show, founded at NEC, normally does its Boston tapings in NEC’s Jordan Hall. But on March 28, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will be the site of a special taping, as part of a National Summit on Creative Youth Development. More