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Edited by Suzanne Hegland, June 2016. #e information herein is subject to change and amendment without notice. Table of Contents 2-3 College Administrative Personnel 4-9 College Faculty 10-11 Academic Calendar 13-57 Academic Regulations and Information 59-61 Health Services and Residence Hall Information 63-69 Financial Information 71-85 Undergraduate Programs of Study Bachelor of Music Undergraduate Diploma Undergraduate Minors (Bachelor of Music) 87 Music-in-Education Concentration 89-105 Graduate Programs of Study Master of Music Vocal Pedagogy Concentration Graduate Diploma Professional String Quartet Training Program Professional Piano Trio Training Program Artist Diploma Doctor of Musical Arts 107-115 Chamber Music and Ensembles 117 Intercultural and Improvisation Studies 119-203 Course Offerings and Faculty by Department 205-206 Index NEC ACADEMIC CATALOG 2016-2017 1 College Administrative Personnel Office of the President Office of Residence Life #omas Novak Allesandra Cionco Interim President Assistant Dean of Campus Life Kairyn Rainer Chief of Staff Ensembles Administration Margie Apfelbaum Office of the Provost Administrative Director of Orchestras #omas Novak Greta DiGiorgio Provost and Dean of the College Jazz & CI Production & Alison Garner Administrative Director Assistant Dean for Administration Rich Frost and Academic Affairs Opera Production & Hank Mou Administrative Director College Artistic Manager Sally Millar Ching Yeo Administrator for Chorus College Administrative Manager Elizabeth Van Voorhis Program Administrator, Chamber Office of Student Services Music, Strings, Woodwinds, Suzanne Hegland Percussion & Brass Dean of Students Spaulding and Firestone Rebecca Teeters Libraries Assistant Dean of Students & Academic and International Alan Karass Student Advisor Director of Libraries Stephanie Barnes Business Office Academic and International Student Advisor Maria Montiel College Receivables Accountant Davey Harrison Academic and International Office of Admissions Student Advisor Alex Powell #omas Handel Assistant Dean for Admissions Chair of DMA Program Nick Gleason Robert Winkley Assistant Director of Admissions Registrar Maya Jacobs Alexander Wolniak Admissions Counselor Assistant Registrar Emily Jensen Jeremy Vaughan Admissions Counselor Office Coordinator 2 Office of Financial Aid Entrepreneurial Musicianship Lauren Urbanek Department Director of Financial Aid Rachel Roberts Lauren Flaherty Director Associate Director of Financial Aid Anna-Christina Phillips Maria Currie Assistant Director Financial Aid Counselor Andrew Worden Program Manager Community Performances and Partnerships Tanya Maggi Director Grace Allendorf Community Performances and Summer Institutes Manager NEC ACADEMIC CATALOG 2016-2017 3 College Faculty Faculty biographies, photos, Web links, and e-mail contact are available at necmusic.edu/faculty Strings Double Bass Yeesun Kim, chair James Orleans BSO Kristopher Tong, assistant chair Donald Palma Todd Seeber BSO Violin Lawrence Wolfe BSO; Paul Biss Boston Pops principal Lucy Chapman Miriam Fried Guitar Soovin Kim Eliot Fisk Nicholas Kitchen Jérôme Mouffe Borromeo String Quartet Zaira Meneses, Performance Malcolm Lowe BSO concertmaster, and Repertoire Class Boston Symphony Chamber Players Harp Ayano Ninomiya Franziska Huhn Kristopher Tong Jessica Zhou BSO principal Borromeo String Quartet Valeria Vilker-Kuchment BSO Woodwinds Donald Weilerstein Richard Svoboda, chair Dorothy Richard Starling Violin Chair Flute Jason Horowitz, Orchestra Repertoire John Heiss Magdalena Richter, String Pedagogy Renée Krimsier Cynthia Meyers BSO Viola Paula Robison Donna Hieken Cathy Basrak Flute Chair Kim Kashkashian Elizabeth Rowe BSO principal Martha Strongin Katz Mai Motobuchi Oboe Borromeo String Quartet John Ferrillo BSO principal Dimitri Murrath Anne Marie Gabriele Marcus #ompson Mark McEwen BSO Keisuke Wakao BSO; Violoncello Boston Pops principal Natasha Brofsky Lluís Claret Serra Clarinet Paul Katz #omas Martin BSO; Boston Pops principal Yeesun Kim Borromeo String Quartet Richard Stoltzman Laurence Lesser President Emeritus, Walter W. Michael Wayne BSO Naumburg Chair in Music Ronald Feldman, Orchestral Repertoire 4 Bassoon Percussion Gregg Henegar BSO Daniel Bauch BSO Richard Ranti BSO; Frank Epstein former BSO Boston Pops principal Jim Gwin Richard Svoboda BSO principal, Will Hudgins BSO Boston Symphony Chamber Players Mikael Ringquist, Hand Drumming Saxophone Lucas Moisson, Electronic Percussion Brian Levy Conducting Kenneth Radnofsky Hugh Wolff, Director of Orchestras Brass and Percussion David Loebel, Associate Director Frank Epstein, chair of Orchestras Frank Carlberg, Jazz Composers’ Horn Workshop Orchestra Rachel Childers BSO Stephen Drury, Avant-Garde Eli Epstein Ensemble Jonathan Menkis BSO William Drury, Associate Conductor Jean Rife of Wind Ensembles, Symphonic Richard Sebring BSO; Winds Boston Pops principal John Heiss, Contemporary Ensemble Jason Snider BSO Jonathan Richter, Director of James Sommerville BSO principal, Concert Choir Boston Symphony Chamber Players Donald Palma, Chamber Orchestra Michael Winter BSO Charles Peltz, Director of Wind Ensemble Activities Trumpet Ken Schaphorst, Jazz Orchestra Steve Emery former BSO Erica Washburn, Director of Choral Michael Martin BSO Activities #omas Rolfs BSO principal, Boston Symphony Chamber Players Guest Conductors, 2003–2016 Tom Siders BSO Stefan Asbury Benjamin Wright BSO Django Bates, Jazz Orchestra Carla Bley, Jazz Orchestra Trombone Bob Brookmeyer, Jazz Orchestra Norman Bolter former BSO JoAnn Falletta Stephen Lange BSO Guillermo Figueroa James Markey BSO Jimmy Heath, Jazz Orchestra Toby Oft BSO principal David Holland, Jazz Orchestra Tuba John Hollenbeck, Jazz Orchestra Mike Roylance BSO principal Jeffrey Kahane Julian Kuerti Andrew Litton Jim McNeely, Jazz Orchestra David Alan Miller Ludovic Morlot NEC ACADEMIC CATALOG 2016-2017 5 Alasdair Neale Jérôme Mouffe Larry Rachleff Ayano Ninomiya Mischa Santora #omas Novak Gunther Schuller Carol Ou Maria Schneider, Jazz Orchestra Donald Palma Joseph Silverstein Charles Peltz Robert Spano Kenneth Radnofsky Shi-Yeon Sung James Sommerville Michael Tilson #omas Erica Washburn Yan Pascal Tortelier Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, Joshua Weilerstein Professional Piano Trio Benjamin Zander Training Program Chamber Music Resident Ensembles Lucy Chapman, Chair Borromeo String Quartet Jean Rife, Assistant Chair NEC’s Weilerstein Trio Paul Biss Piano Tanya Blaich Bruce Brubaker, chair Norman Bolter Bruce Brubaker Borromeo String Quartet Wha Kyung Byun Nicholas Kitchen, Violin Gabriel Chodos Kristopher Tong, Violin Mai Motobuchi, Viola Stephen Drury Yeesun Kim, Violoncello Randall Hodgkinson Natasha Brofsky Veronica Jochum Lucy Chapman Alexander Korsantia Lluís Claret Serra Meng-Chieh Liu Stephen Drury Victor Rosenbaum Eli Epstein Vivian Hornik Weilerstein Guy Fishman A. Ramón Rivera, Piano Pedagogy Eliot Fisk Distinguished Artist-in-Residence John Gibbons Russell Sherman John Heiss Collaborative Piano Will Hudgins Cameron Stowe, chair Kim Kashkashian Jean Anderson-Collier Paul Katz, Professional String Quartet Training Program Tanya Blaich Soovin Kim Jonathan Feldman Pei-Shan Lee Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek Laurence Lesser Pei-Shan Lee Max Levinson Max Levinson Meng-Chieh Liu Cameron Stowe Tanya Maggi Vivian Hornik Weilerstein Michael Martin 6 COLLEGE FACULTY Jazz Studies Contemporary Improvisation Ken Schaphorst, chair Hankus Netsky, chair Students in Jazz Studies may request Eden MacAdam-Somer, assistant chair to study improvisation, composition, Mal Barsamian, Clarinet, Oud, and musicianship with Jazz faculty Middle Eastern Music members regardless of instrument. Ran Blake, Piano, Improvisation, Jerry Bergonzi, Saxophone Film Noir Ran Blake, Piano, Cristi Catt, Voice Contemporary Improvisation Linda Chase, Interdisciplinary Frank Carlberg, Composition, Piano Ensemble, Flute, Composition, Anthony Coleman, Composition, Improvisation Piano Anthony Coleman, Piano, Jorrit Dijkstra, Ensemble Composition, Improvisation, Dominique Eade, Voice, Ensemble Vocal Ensemble Dominique Eade, Voice, Billy Hart, Percussion Improvisation, Ensemble Ethan Iverson, Piano Aaron Hartley, Film Noir Ensemble, Improvisation, Ear Training Jerry Leake, African and Indian Percussion, Tabla Winifred Horan, Ensemble Brian Levy, Saxophone Tanya Kalmanovitch, Ensemble John Lockwood, Double Bass Carla Kihlstedt, Strings, Improvisation, Songwriting, Cecil McBee, Double Bass Composition Donny McCaslin, Saxophone Jerry Leake, World Percussion, Tabla John McNeil, Trumpet Eden MacAdam-Somer, Strings, Jason Moran, Piano Songwriting, Composition, Joe Morris,