Woodwind students at NEC study with extraordinary faculty mentors who are world-renowned soloists and/or members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Performance opportunities are numerous and varied – solo recitals, chamber music, orchestra, wind ensemble – and you will collaborate with incredibly talented and dedicated peers.
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Under the direction of chair Richard Svoboda, NEC's Woodwind Studies Department offers one of the finest music educations available. In this video you can meet several of our outstanding faculty members, find out about NEC's close relationship to the Boston Symphony, and hear about the great performance and instruction opportunities enjoyed by our students.
Franz Berwald's Konzertstück for Bassoon and Orchestra, with the NEC Symphony conducted by Orchestral Conducting student Matt Szymanski, Brittney Walker, bassoon.
Renowned flutist and NEC faculty member Paula Robison joins Hugh Wolff and the NEC Philharmonia in the first performance of the reconstructed score of Leon Kirchner's 1978 masterpiece, "Music for Flute and Orchestra."
Hugh Wolff conducts the NEC Philharmonia in a lush performance of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony "Pastoral".
Charles Peltz, Director of Wind Ensemble Activities conducts his New England Conservatory faculty colleague flutist Paula Robison in Vaughan Williams's Lark Ascending.
What’s in your professional toolkit?
At NEC, you’ll strengthen your music with skills outside of music. In Community Performances & Partnerships, you’ll pitch programming and perform for diverse audiences. In Entrepreneurial Musicianship you’ll make new ventures happen, start to finish. And in Liberal Arts you’ll sharpen the intellectual and communications skills artists need to go farther.
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