Contemporary Musical Arts

Co-Chair of the Department of Contemporary Musical Arts composer/performer/improviser Eden MacAdam-Somer is one of today’s most exciting and versatile artists. Hailed by the New York Times as...

Ted Reichman is an accordionist, keyboard player, and composer, focusing on connections between improvisation and various forms of folk, popular music, and jazz. He works as a film composer and record...

Carla Kihlstedt plays the violin, sings, improvises, and composes—sometimes at the service of a simple song, and other times, as part of a large-scale multi-faceted performance. Her ongoing...

Based in Boston, Aaron Hartley is a freelance trombonist whose playing is defined by Third Stream methodology. Hartley regularly appears with noir pianist Ran Blake, performing diverse repertoire...

Bert Seager is an internationally recognized jazz pianist and composer. His seventeen compact discs have won him unanimous critical acclaim from the New York Times, Keyboard Magazine, The Chicago...

A multi-instrumentalist, composer, and ethnomusicologist, Hankus Netsky is co-chair of New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts Department and founder and director of the Klezmer...

Downbeat Magazine called guitarist Joe Morris, “the preeminent free music guitarist of his generation.”  Will Montgomery, writing in WIRE magazine, called him, “one of the most profound improvisers at...

Jerry Leake Jerry Leake is the founder of the world-rock-fusion octet Cubist whose three critically acclaimed CD’s feature his diverse talent as a composer, arranger, and performer. Jerry is the co...

Tanya Kalmanovitch is a Canadian violist, ethnomusicologist, and author known for her breadth of inquiry and restless sense of adventure. Her uncommonly diverse interests converge in the fields of...

Dominique Eade has been a featured vocalist and composer in the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, the Jazz in Toulon Festival in France, the Molde International Jazz Festival in Norway, the What Is Jazz...