John Harbison Chamber Music Masterclass

John Harbison presents a masterclass featuring students from the NEC Chamber Music program. Students will perform live in Burnes Hall while receiving feedback from John Harbison via Zoom.

Composer John Harbison’s concert music catalog of almost 300 works is anchored by three operas, seven symphonies, twelve concerti, a ballet, six string quartets, numerous song cycles and chamber works, and a large body of sacred music that includes cantatas, motets, and the orchestral-choral works Four Psalms, Requiem, and Abraham. He has also penned a substantial body of jazz compositions and arrangements, and cadenzas for major violin and piano concertos.

Harbison has received commissions from most of America’s premiere musical institutions, including the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  As one of America’s most distinguished artistic figures, he is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, among them a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize.

This master class is made possible through the generous support of the Richard P. and Claire W. Morse Visiting Artist Fund.