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the future of music. made here. Academic Catalog : 2020 / 2021 NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY Founded 1867 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 Phone (617) 585-1100 Fax (617) 262-0500 necmusic.edu Office of Admissions (617) 585-1101 Office of the President (617) 585-1200 Office of the Provost (617) 585-1305 Office of Student Services (617) 585-1310 Office of Financial Aid (617) 585-1110 Business Office (617) 585-1220 The information herein is subject to change and amendment without notice. Edited by Rebecca Teeters, June 2020 For more information, see the Policy Sections found in the NEC Student Handbook and Employee Handbook. NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY IS ACCREDITED BY THE NEW ENGLAND COMMISSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION. NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, AGE, NATIONAL OR ETHNIC ORIGIN, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY, GENETIC MAKE-UP, OR VETERAN STATUS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF ITS EDUCATIONAL POLICIES, ADMISSION POLICIES, EMPLOYMENT POLICIES, SCHOLARSHIP AND LOAN PROGRAMS OR OTHER CONSERVATORY-SPONSORED ACTIVITIES. table of contents 2 NEC mission 2-3 College Administrative Personnel 4-9 College Faculty 10-11 Academic Calendar 13-45 Academic Regulations and Information 47-53 Financial Information 55-71 Undergraduate Programs of Study Bachelor of Music Undergraduate Diploma Undergraduate Minors (Bachelor of Music) 73 Music-in-Education Concentration 75-93 Graduate Programs of Study Master of Music Vocal Pedagogy Concentration Graduate Music Theory Minor Graduate Diploma Professional String Quartet Program Professional Piano Trio Program Artist Diploma Doctor of Musical Arts DMA Music Theory and Musicology Minors 95-103 Chamber Music and Ensembles 105 Intercultural and Improvisation Studies 107 First Year Experience 109 Song Lab 111-209 Course Offerings and Faculty by Department 211-212 Index NEC Academic Catalog : 2020 / 2021 1 NEC mission New England Conservatory educates and trains musicians of all ages from around the world, drawing on the talent and deep reservoir of experience of our distinguished faculty. We are dedicated to inculcating the highest standards of excellence and nurturing individual artistic sensibility and creative growth. Understanding that music is one of the transcendent expressions of human civilization, NEC aspires to ensure it a central place in contemporary society. college administrative personnel OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT ENSEMBLES ADMINISTRATION AND THE PROVOST Margie Apfelbaum Andrea Kalyn Director of Large Ensemble President Administration Thomas Novak Greta DiGiorgio Vice President and Provost Jazz and CI Production and Amy Giannini Administrative Director Executive Assistant Rich Frost Opera Production and OFFICE OF STUDENT SERVICES Administrative Director Nick Tatar Sally Millar Dean of Students Administrator for Chorus Rebecca Teeters Elizabeth Van Voorhis Senior Associate Dean of Students Administrative Director, Chamber Laura Messina Music, Strings, Woodwinds, Academic and International Percussion and Brass Student Advisor BLUMENTHAL FAMILY LIBRARY Yukii Ntumba Academic and International Richard Vallone Student Advisor Head of Public Services Thomas Handel BUSINESS OFFICE Chair of DMA Program Andrew Barnwell Robert Winkley Receivables Accountant Registrar Steven Sweat Director of Residence Life and Housing Micah Gharavi Office Coordinator 2 OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL AID AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES Alex Powell Tanya Maggi Dean of Admissions and Dean of Community Engagement Financial Aid and Professional Studies Lauren Urbanek COMMUNITY PERFORMANCES Associate Dean for Financial Aid AND PARTNERSHIPS Emily Cox Grace Allendorf Assistant Director of Admissions Assistant Dean of Community and Financial Aid Performances and Partnerships Claire Paik Assistant Director of Admissions ENTREPRENEURIAL MUSICIANSHIP and Financial Aid DEPARTMENT Zachary Schwartz Annie Phillips Assistant Director of Admissions Associate Dean of Entrepreneurial and Financial Aid Musicianship Kimberly Ouellette Andrew Worden Admissions and Financial Aid Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurial Counselor Musicianship Shanell Percy Admissions and Financial Aid Counselor NEC Academic Catalog : 2020 / 2021 3 college faculty Faculty biographies, photos, Web links, and e-mail contact are available at necmusic.edu/faculty STRINGS GUITAR Lluís Claret, Chair Eliot Fisk Kristopher Tong, Assistant Chair Zaira Meneses, Performance and Repertoire Class VIOLIN Jérôme Mouffe Paul Biss Miriam Fried HARP Soovin Kim Franziska Huhn Nicholas Kitchen, Jessica Zhou, BSO Principal Borromeo String Quartet WOODWINDS Ayano Ninomiya Richard Svoboda, Chair Kristopher Tong, Borromeo String Quartet FLUTE Valeria Vilker-Kuchment, BSO John Heiss Donald Weilerstein, Renée Krimsier Dorothy Richard Starling Cynthia Meyers, BSO Violin Chair Paula Robison, Donna Hieken Jason Horowitz, BSO, Flute Chair Orchestra Repertoire Elizabeth Rowe, Orchestra Repertoire, VIOLA BSO Principal Cathy Basrak, BSO OBOE Nicholas Cords John Ferrillo, BSO Principal Kim Kashkashian Anne Marie Gabriele Martha Strongin Katz Mark McEwen, BSO Mai Motobuchi, Keisuke Wakao, BSO, Borromeo String Quartet Boston Pops Principal Marcus Thompson CLARINET VIOLONCELLO William R. Hudgins, BSO Principal Lluís Claret Thomas Martin, BSO, Mickey Katz, BSO, Boston Pops Principal Orchestra Repertoire Richard Stoltzman Paul Katz Yeesun Kim, Borromeo String Quartet BASSOON Laurence Lesser, President Emeritus, Marc Goldberg Walter W. Naumburg Chair in Music Richard Ranti, BSO, Boston Pops Principal DOUBLE BASS Richard Svoboda, BSO Principal, Donald Palma Boston Symphony Chamber Players Todd Seeber, BSO Thomas Van Dyck, BSO 4 SAXOPHONE John Heiss, Contemporary Ensemble Kenneth Radnofsky Donald Palma, Chamber Orchestra Charles Peltz, Director of Wind BRASS AND PERCUSSION Ensemble Activities James Markey, Chair Ken Schaphorst, Jazz Orchestra HORN Erica Washburn, Director of Choral Rachel Childers, BSO Activities Eli Epstein GUEST CONDUCTORS, 2003–2019 Jean Rife Stefan Asbury Richard Sebring, BSO, Django Bates, Jazz Orchestra Boston Pops Principal Carla Bley, Jazz Orchestra Jason Snider, BSO Bob Brookmeyer, Jazz Orchestra James Sommerville, BSO Principal, Mei-Ann Chen Boston Symphony Chamber Players Aram Demirjian Michael Winter, BSO JoAnn Falletta TRUMPET Guillermo Figueroa Michael Dobrinski Jimmy Heath, Jazz Orchestra Steve Emery, former BSO David Holland, Jazz Orchestra Thomas Rolfs, BSO Principal, John Hollenbeck, Jazz Orchestra Boston Symphony Chamber Players Jeffrey Kahane Tom Siders, BSO Julian Kuerti Benjamin Wright, BSO Steven Lipsitt Andrew Litton TROMBONE Andres Lopera Norman Bolter, former BSO Ken-David Masur Stephen Lange, BSO Jim McNeely, Jazz Orchestra James Markey, BSO David Alan Miller Toby Oft, BSO Principal Ludovic Morlot TUBA Tito Munoz Mike Roylance, BSO Principal Alasdair Neale Larry Rachleff PERCUSSION Gil Rose Daniel Bauch BSO Mischa Santora Jim Gwin, Drum Set Class Maria Schneider, Jazz Orchestra Will Hudgins, BSO Gunther Schuller Matt McKay, BSO Joseph Silverstein CONDUCTING Leonard Slatkin Hugh Wolff, Director of Orchestras Robert Spano David Loebel, Associate Director Shi-Yeon Sung of Orchestras Michael Tilson Thomas Frank Carlberg, Jazz Composers’ Yan Pascal Tortelier Workshop Orchestra Joshua Weilerstein Stephen Drury, Avant-Garde Ensemble Xian Zhang William Drury, Associate Conductor of Wind Ensembles, Symphonic Winds NEC Academic Catalog : 2020 / 2021 5 CHAMBER MUSIC RESIDENT ENSEMBLES Merry Peckham, Chair Borromeo String Quartet Jean Rife, Assistant Chair NEC’s Weilerstein Trio Paul Biss PIANO Borromeo String Quartet: Bruce Brubaker, Chair Nicholas Kitchen, Violin Kristopher Tong, Violin Alessio Bax Mai Motobuchi, Viola Bruce Brubaker Yeesun Kim, Violoncello Wha Kyung Byun Rachel Childers Thai Son Dang Lluís Claret Stephen Drury Nicholas Cords Randall Hodgkinson Stephen Drury Alexander Korsantia Eli Epstein Meng-Chieh Liu Jonathan Feldman HaeSun Paik John Ferrillo A. Ramón Rivera, Piano Pedagogy Guy Fishman Vivian Hornik Weilerstein Eliot Fisk Distinguished Artist-in-Residence John Heiss Russell Sherman Will Hudgins COLLABORATIVE PIANO Kim Kashkashian Paul Katz, Professional String Cameron Stowe, Chair Quartet Training Program Tanya Blaich Soovin Kim Jonathan Feldman Pei-Shan Lee Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek Max Levinson Pei-Shan Lee Tanya Maggi Max Levinson James Markey Cameron Stowe Jérôme Mouffe Vivian Hornik Weilerstein Ayano Ninomiya JAZZ STUDIES Thomas Novak Ken Schaphorst, Chair Carol Ou Brian Levy, Assistant Chair Donald Palma Kenneth Radnofsky Students in Jazz Studies may request to study improvisation, composition, Paula Robison and musicianship with Jazz faculty James Sommerville members regardless of instrument. Donald Weilerstein Jerry Bergonzi, Saxophone, Ensemble Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, Ran Blake, Piano, Professional Piano Trio Contemporary Improvisation Training Program Frank Carlberg, Composition, Piano Benjamin Wright Anthony Coleman, Composition, Piano, Ensemble Jorrit Dijkstra, Ensemble 6 College Faculty Dominique Eade, Voice, Dominique Eade, Voice, Improvisation, Vocal Ensemble Ensemble Henrique Eisenmann, Piano, Aaron Hartley, Film Noir Ensemble, Brazilian Ensemble Improvisation, Ear Training Billy Hart, Percussion Nima Janmohammadi, Persian Ethan Iverson, Piano Music Ensemble Jerry Leake, African and Indian Tanya Kalmanovitch, Viola, Percussion, Tabla Improvisation Brian Levy, Saxophone, Ensemble Carla Kihlstedt, Strings, Improvisation, John Lockwood, Double Bass, Songwriting,
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