NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY PERFORMANCES / FALL 2015 necmusic.edu/concerts | FALL 2015 1 Everyone’s invited. Enjoy one of Boston’s premier cultural institutions in over 1,000 free concerts a year by the fabulously talented musicians at New England Conservatory. Classical, , opera, Contemporary Improvisation, orchestral, vocal, chamber— we definitely have something for you at NEC.

By popular demand, our new weeknight start time is 7:30 PM! Now it’s easier after work or on a school night to catch a concert—and the train home—without missing a note. Also, our brochure is available as a downloadable PDF—easy to keep handy and to share with friends. We hope to see you soon!

More to come. This Season Guide covers events from September through December 2015. NEC will publish a followup guide covering January through summer 2016.

2 necmusic.edu/concerts | FALL 2015 SEPTEMBER 2015 OCTOBER 13 4 James Pappoutsakis Flute Competition From the Top $$ Winner’s Recital Live radio show taping 3:00 PM | Jordan Hall 2:00 PM | Jordan Hall

27 5 Boston Double Reed Day First Monday at Jordan Hall NEC and the Boston Woodwind Society present a Bach: Concerto no 4 day for double reed players to meet with vendors Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52 and attend masterclasses and a recital. Sibelius: String Quartet “Voces intimae” 12:00-5:30 PM | Vendors open in Brown Hall 1:00 PM | Masterclass in Williams Hall 6 2:30 PM | Presentation in Williams Hall Music of Robert Cogan + Pozzi Escot 3:30 PM | Masterclass in Williams Hall NEC faculty members 5:00 PM | Recital in Williams Hall 8:00 PM | Jordan Hall

28 7 New music at NEC Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride Ensemble led by Stephen Drury Concert performance with NEC’s top singers and the NEC Philharmonia conducted by Stephen Lord 29 Gabriel Chodos’s Beethoven Origo Ensemble NEC piano faculty recital Intercultural Institute lecture-demonstration Andante favori in F major, WoO 57 7:30 PM | Brown Hall Sonata in A major, Op. 101 Sonata in F minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata” 8 James Mosher 30 NEC horn faculty recital NEC Philharmonia + Wolff 7:30 PM | Williams Hall Schuller: Dreamscape Mahler: Symphony no 5 11 Boston Cello Quartet NEC Preparatory School’s new ensemble-in- residence is made up of four Boston Symphony Orchestra cellists: Blaise Déjardin, Adam Esbensen, Mihail Jojatu, Alexandre Lecarme. 8:00 PM | Jordan Hall

12, 15 Opera Masterclasses with Diana Soviero October 12 | 7:00 PM | Jordan Hall October 15 | 7:00 PM | Brown Hall

12 Music for Food 7:00 PM | Brown Hall

ALL CONCERTS ARE FREE (unless indicated by $$) in JORDAN HALL AND BEGIN AT 7:30 PM except where noted.

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13 21 NEC Wind Ensemble + Peltz NEC Symphony + Loebel Beethoven: Octet Wagner: Overture to The Flying Dutchman Debussy/Volans: L’isle joyeuse Mozart: Symphony no 40 Harbison: Olympic Dances Dzubay: Snake Alley Nono: Polifonica - monodia - ritmica Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol

14 Jung A Bang, D.M.A. collaborative piano recital NEC Chamber Orchestra 8:00 PM | Brown Hall Haydn: Symphony no 22 Dvorák: Serenade for Strings 22 Moravec: Morph Paula Robison NEC flute faculty recital, with pianist Electronic Music Concert Deborah De Wolf Emery 7:30 PM | Brown Hall Debussy: Syrinx, Five Songs Hüe: Fantaisie 15 Martinu: Sonata for Flute and Piano “Too Marvelous for Words”: Mozart: Andante in C major, K315 Music of Frank Sinatra Widor: Suite for Flute and Piano “Witchcraft” and a dozen other standards, with NEC vocalists and the NEC Jazz Orchestra 23 conducted by Ken Schaphorst. Liz Tobias, D.M.A. jazz recital 8:30 PM | Brown Hall 16 A Far Cry $$ 24 8:00 PM | Jordan Hall Tom Oesterling NEC voice faculty recital 18 7:30 PM | Brown Hall Meng-Chieh Liu’s Brahms NEC piano faculty recital 26 Sonatas nos 1, 2, and 3 NEC Choruses: “Chiaroscuro” Conductor Simon Carrington finds “contrasts of 19 light and shade” in a thousand years New music at NEC of choral repertoire.

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Borromeo String Quartet ALL CONCERTS ARE Richard Stoltzman, clarinet, and Mika Yoshida, FREE marimba, join NEC ensemble-in-residence. (unless indicated by $$) in Heiss: Microcosms for string quartet JORDAN HALL McKinley: Haiku Cycle, Mostly Blues AND BEGIN AT Tchaikovsky: String Quartet no 2 7:30 PM except where noted.

4 necmusic.edu/concerts | FALL 2015 ReasonsRound-number birthdays for spell a “party” party. for Sinatra, Strayhorn, Blake, Coleman, Hersch. necmusic.edu/jazz

27 NOVEMBER NEC Symphonic Winds + Drury, Yu 2 Bernstein: suite First Monday at Jordan Hall Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Nielsen: Quintet for Winds Smirnov: Portrait Schubert/Matiegka: Quartet Stephenson: Duo Fantastique with trumpet Schumann: Piano Quintet soloists Charles Schlueter, Heinz Karl Schwebel ’96 M.M. 3 Li-Mei Liang, D.M.A. violin recital 28 7:30 PM | Brown Hall NEC Philharmonia + Asbury Glanert: Three American Preludes 4 Bartók: Miraculous Mandarin NEC Philharmonia + Loebel Dvorak: Symphony no 9 Weber: Overture to Euryanthe Schumann: Concerto for Piano 29 with soloist Cristian Budu ’16 A.D. Fred Hersch Lang: International Business Machine Jazz pianist who taught at NEC through 2015 Beethoven: Symphony no 8 celebrates 60th birthday. New music at NEC 30, Nov 1 Ensemble led by Stephen Drury Ouroboros Trilogy in workshop: Naga 7:00 PM | Brown Hall Workshop productions at NEC this fall anticipate 2016 performances in Boston of the complete Ouroboros Trilogy of operas. Liederabend October 30 | 8:30 PM | Brown Hall 6:30 PM | Williams Hall November 1 | 3:00 PM | Brown Hall 5 Parker Quartet Masterclasses 4:00 PM | Keller Room 4:00 PM | Pierce Hall

GreatWith “Do You music. Hear What I Hear?” composers curate chamber music performances at NEC as preludes to BSO premieres of their works. necmusic.edu/bso-nec

4 necmusic.edu/concerts | FALL 2015 necmusic.edu/concerts | FALL 2015 5 Superb performances Vivian, Donald, and Alisa Weilerstein: solo stars who also perform as a family —the Weilerstein Trio. necmusic.edu/chamber-music

Unsuk Chin: Do You Hear What I Hear? 13, 15 Music selected by composer Unsuk Chin, 2004 “Realization of a Dream”: winner of the Grawemeyer Award, precedes An 80th Birthday Tribute to Boston Symphony Orchestra premiere of her Celebration of Contemporary Improvisation Mannequin. program founder, with concert featuring Blake, 6:00 PM | Williams Hall CI students and faculty, and Ricky Ford, Leon “Boots” Maleson, Jonah Kraut, David “The Knife” NEC Youth Symphony + Karidoyanes Fabris. Beethoven: Symphony no 5 November 13 | 7:30 PM | Jordan Hall concert Grieg: Concerto for Piano with soloist Andrew Li November 15 | 11:00 AM | Pierce Hall symposium

Susanne Friedrich 13 NEC cello faculty recital An Evening of Vaughan Williams 7:30 PM | Williams Hall Pianist Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek is joined by Hugo Abraham and fellow faculty Yeesun Kim, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 23, 30 Nicholas Kitchen, Michael Meraw, Mai Motobuchi In The Mix for chamber music and songs. Student jazz ensembles coached by faculty Six Studies in English Folksong, Mystical Songs, artists. Sonata for Violin and Piano, Quintet 7:00 PM | Pierce Hall 8:30 PM | Williams Hall

9 14 NEC Contemporary Ensemble + Heiss NEC Youth Philharmonic Orchestra + Loebel Holst: The Planets 10 NEC Wind Ensemble + Peltz 15, 16 Noon: Sweelinck Variations Handel Arias Blake: Ghosts of Cimetière de Père Lachaise, November 15 | 3:00 PM | Brown Hall Impresario of Death November 16 | 7:30 PM | Brown Hall Schuller: Headin’ Out, Movin’ In 15 NEC Bach Ensemble + Gibbons NEC Percussion Ensemble + Epstein 8:00 PM | Williams Hall Ten years after its premiere at NEC, ’s Grand Concerto for Percussion and 11 Keyboards makes its return. NEC Chamber Orchestra ALL CONCERTS ARE Handel: Concerto grosso, “Hornpipe” FREE Rota: Concerto for Strings (unless indicated by $$) in Weinberg: Symphony no 7 JORDAN HALL AND BEGIN AT 7:30 PM except where noted.

6 necmusic.edu/concerts | FALL 2015 They’reNEC’s choruses: best so singers good! around. Simon Carrington: stellar guest. Bonus gift: Holiday Concert, anyone? necmusic.edu/choral

Liana Zaretsky NEC Jazz Composer’s Ensemble NEC violin faculty recital and Gospel Ensemble 4:00 PM | Williams Hall 7:30 PM | Brown Hall

16 19 Tre Voci Gunther Schuller: A Musical Celebration Violist Kim Kashkashian of the faculty, flutist Schuller: Quartet for 4 Double Basses, Sandpoint Marina Piccinini, and harpist Sivan Magen. Rag, Headin’ Out, Movin’ In, Grand Concerto for Haydn: Trio , Hob. XV:25 Percussion and Keyboards Bartók: Hungarian Peasant Suite, Romanian Blake: Gunther Dances Debussy: Children’s Corner Suite, Prélude à 20, 21 l’après-midi d’un faune Undergraduate Opera Scenes Prokofiev: Suite from November 20 | 8:30 PM | Williams Hall November 21 | 7:00 PM | Williams Hall 17 Viola masterclass with Nobuko Imai 20 4:00 PM | Brown Hall NEC Youth Chorale + Richter 8:00 PM | Church of the Covenant NEC Symphonic Winds + Drury Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine Tal Zilber, D.M.A. Contemporary Improvisation Gandolfi: Winding Up, Winding Down: 8:30 PM | Brown Hall Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble, with Douglas Monroe Aimee Tsuchiya Salles: Northeastern Suite NEC piano faculty recital Handel/Howarth: Music for the Royal Fireworks 7:30 PM | Keller Room

18 NEC Symphony + Biss Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus Torke: Black and White Stravinsky: Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée

InSneak advance of a completepreview. Boston performance in 2016, the Ouroboros opera trilogy is being workshopped at NEC this fall. necmusic.edu/opera

6 necmusic.edu/concerts | FALL 2015 necmusic.edu/concerts | FALL 2015 7 Brilliance lives on. The late Gunther Schuller, a musical force to be reckoned with to the very end, is celebrated at NEC and all over Boston this fall. necmusic.edu/schuller

22, 23 DECEMBER Ouroboros Trilogy in workshop: Gilgamesh 1, 3 Workshop productions at NEC this fall anticipate Dave Holland residency 2016 performances in Boston of the complete December 1, 3 | 1:00 PM | masterclasses in Ouroboros Trilogy of operas. Williams Hall November 22 | 3:00 PM | Brown Hall December 3 | 7:30 PM | Concert in Brown Hall November 23 | 7:30 PM | Brown Hall 1 22 Chamber Music Gala Gunther Schuller: Reminiscences and Reflections Tuesday Night New Music 11:00 AM | Jordan Hall 7:30 PM | Pierce Hall

23 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 16, 17 Weilerstein Trio “In the Mix” and CI Salon Nights NEC ensemble-in-residence Student jazz and Contemporary Improvisation ensembles coached by faculty artists. 24 Dec 2, 7, 8, 14, 17 | 7:00 PM | Pierce Hall Tuesday Night New Music Dec 9, 16 | 7:00 PM | Keller Room 7:30 PM | Brown Hall 2 30 NEC at Mechanics Hall: Holiday Concert Exhilaration of Chamber Music NEC Chamber Singers and Symphonic Winds 5:00, 7:30 PM | Keller Room return to Worcester landmark. 12:00 PM | Mechanics Hall, Worcester Anthony Coleman NEC faculty member—pianist, composer, NEC Philharmonia + Loebel improviser, bandleader—celebrates his 60th Haydn: Symphony no 100, “Military” birthday with solo and ensemble works. Shostakovich: Symphony no 8

New music at NEC Ensemble led by Stephen Drury 7:00 PM | Brown Hall

Liederabend ALL CONCERTS ARE 6:30 PM | Williams Hall FREE (unless indicated by $$) in JORDAN HALL 3, 6, 8, 10, 17 AND BEGIN AT Exhilaration of Chamber Music 7:30 PM necmusic.edu/chamber-music except where noted. 3 Beethoven Quartets

8 necmusic.edu/concerts | FALL 2015 Light a fire. Visiting stars — like violist Nobuko Imai — fire up students to excel in public classes. necmusic.edu/masterclasses

4 NEC Massachusetts Wind Ensemble NEC Lab Orchestra Concert Band/Trombone Choir 7:30 PM | Brown Hall 7:30 PM | Brown Hall 11 5 Lessons and Carols Joseph Gotoff, D.M.A. cello recital Erica Washburn and Jonathan Richter conduct 7:30 PM | Brown Hall NEC Chamber Singers and Concert Choir. 7:30 PM | Church of the Covenant 6 NEC Junior Repertory Orchestra, 12 Youth Repertory Orchestra NEC Youth Brass Ensemble, Haydn: Symphony no 103 String Chamber Orchestra Beethoven: Symphony no 1 1:00 PM | Jordan Hall and works by Copland, Glinka, Mascagni, Tchaikovsky NEC Children’s Chorus + Houghton 3:00 PM | Jordan Hall 12:00 PM | Williams Hall

7 13, 14 First Monday at Jordan Hall Puccini: Gianni Schicchi Mozart: Two-Piano Sonata in D major NEC’s graduate voice students with orchestra Schubert: no 2 conducted by NEC graduate conducting majors. Wyner: West of the Moon 7:00 PM | Brown Hall

9 NEC Philharmonia + Wolff Sheng: Tibetan Swing Brahms: Concerto for Piano no 1 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra 10 Music of Billy Strayhorn NEC Jazz Orchestra, Ken Schaphorst, conductor

Masterstrokes.Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age glow when accompanied by NEC musicians at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. necmusic.edu/mfa-nec Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Eugene A. Perry in Memory of her mother, Mrs. Claude Kilpatrick. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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BlastHolst’s The off. Planets is a thrilling voyage with NEC’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. necmusic.edu/prep-concerts

13 SPRING PREVIEW Prep Choral Concert Most of New England Conservatory’s spring concert dates are already posted at “Music of the Dutch Golden Age: necmusic.edu/concerts. Here are a few Commerce, Class, and Codas” $$ key dates you’ll want to mark on your NEC musicians perform in conjunction with calendars now: exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 2:00 PM | Remis Auditorium, MFA Opera Production I $$ Fully staged production with student orchestra 14 and cast. Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble + Mucci February 6, 7, 8, 9 | Cutler Majestic Theatre, Adams: Lollapalooza Boston Ives: The Alcotts Persichetti: Masquerade NEC Chamber Orchestra at Tufts Hart: Cartoon Bartók: Divertimento Schubert: Symphony no 5 15 Wuorinen: Grand Bamboula Holiday Concert April 11 | 8:00 PM | Distler Hall, Tufts University, NEC Chamber Singers and Symphonic Winds Medford

NEC Jazz Composers’ Workshop Orchestra Opera Production II $$ 7:30 PM | Brown Hall Fully staged production with student orchestra and cast. 17 April 16, 17, 18, 19 | Paramount Center, Boston NEC Wind Ensembles Program led by graduate conducting majors NEC Philharmonia + Wolff at Symphony Hall $$ 7:30 PM | Brown Hall Presented in association with Celebrity Series of Boston. 18 Adams: Concerto for Violin A Far Cry $$ with soloist Alexi Kenney ’17 A.D 8:00 PM | Jordan Hall Norman: Drip Blip Sparkle Spin Glint Glide Glow Float Flop Chop Pop Shatter Splash NEC Youth Jazz Orchestra Stravinsky: Firebird 7:30 PM | Brown Hall April 27 | 8:00 PM | Symphony Hall, Boston

19 Prep Winter Festival CONCERTS ON THE APP 1:00 PM | Jordan Hall Go to the App Store on your iPhone or Play Store on Android to download the FREE 22 necmusic app ­— great way to keep up with Jr. Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble + NEC concerts and news! Samour

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NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY WISHES TO THANK THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES FOR THEIR ONGOING COMMITMENT TO MUSIC AND EDUCATION.

AEI Consultants Grogan & Company AM/PM Facility Services Guardian Security and Protection LLC AmazonSmile Foundation The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation Aramark Healthcare Financial Management Association Atlantic Power and Light Company, Inc. Hermès of The Augustine Foundation Holland-America Music Society The Baupost Group LLC HUB International The Beal Companies Ikona Inc. Ann Beha Architects Johnson String Instrument, Inc. Bellingham Metal Works, LLC KG-NY Restaurant Group Be Our Guest, Inc. Kinder Morgan Foundation Bioforce USA La Bella / E. & O. Mari, Inc. Bloomingdale’s, Inc. Loews Foundation Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Maintenance Products Corporation Bose Corporation M. L. McDonald Sales Company, Inc. Braithwaite & Katz Communications The Mentor Network Brentano, Inc. Mount Auburn Hospital Business Interiors Floor Covering NFP Cabot Corporation Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP Calzone Mediation Office Solutions LLC Capital Counsel LLC Investment Advisers Planned Giving Group of New England The Catered Affair, Inc. The Presser Foundation Central Ceilings, Inc. Reuning & Son Violins, Inc. Century Bank Ropes & Gray LLC Charlesbank Capital Partners Shawmut Design and Construction Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Softworld, Inc. D. Clancy & Sons South Coastal Animal Health Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, Inc. Stanhope Garage, Inc. Coldwell Banker M. Steinert & Sons Co., Inc. Collegiate Press Co. Sullivan & McLaughlin Colliers International Boston Sweeney Drywall Finishes Corp. David Conner Music Services Tishman Construction Corporation Cox Engineering Company Titan Roofing, Inc. D’Addario Music Foundation Tyco Integrated Security DaVinci Direct Viking River Cruises J. Derenzo Companies The Welch Corporation Francis R. Doran Insurance Agency, Inc. Wellington Management Company Dvorzak Publishing WGBH Eaton Vance Corporation Winiker Music The Fairmont Copley Plaza Scott Wright Plumbing & Heating, LLC French Cultural Center, Inc. YMCA of Greater Boston

For information regarding corporate partnership and sponsorship opportunities, please contact David McMullin at [email protected] or 617-585-1177.

THREE EASY WAYS TO SUPPORT NEC Online: visit necmusic.edu/give On the phone: contact Heather Finch at 617-585-1163 or [email protected] or use the enclosed envelope.

New England Conservatory is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and administrated by the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events.

Cover photo by Laura Hoffenberg, page 6 photo courtesy Weilerstein Trio. All other photos by Andrew Hurlbut.

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