Strings

As a string player studying at NEC you have chosen to work with one of the world’s most distinguished music faculties. Our strings faculty represent a broad range of professional experience, as soloists, in chamber music, or as orchestra players for the world-renowned Boston Symphony Orchestra.

At the core of your studies is studio instruction. Your studio work is put into practice with performance opportunities in studio class, recitals, chamber music, and orchestra ensembles. Course work in music history and theory gives depth and understanding to your performance repertoire. The liberal arts curriculum is an opportunity to study major academic disciplines as well as cultural, social, intellectual, and political contexts for music.

Find more about the NEC-BSO connection.

NEC string players on the air

Kim Kashkashian of the viola faculty has released a new CD, Neharót,  that pairs her with NEC partner organization Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Kuss Quartet, alumni of NEC's Professional String Quartet Training Program. Kashkashian finds fascinating and poignant links between the music of contemporary Israeli and Armenian composers. Throughout the violist sees as her challenge imitating with her instrument the human voice in its expressions of grief and longing. 

Kashkashian was profiled on NPR's "All Things Considered" in conjunction with this release.

Listen to the segment.

Read a transcript of Kashkashian's NPR profile.

Photo by Andrew Hurlbut

2010-04-29