NEC Contemporary Musical Arts: Opening Night!
NEC kicks off the year with a live concert featuring faculty of the Contemporary Musical Arts department, with music from Persian, Appalachian, Middle Eastern, African, and Jewish traditions as well as jazz, avant garde, new works, and more.
This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live
Ran Blake | Short Life of Barbara Monk / DekTor
dedicated to Dektor Dutra
Artists- Ran Blake, piano
- Yukiko Takagi, piano
Traditional Romanian Klezmer | Bukushner Khusid
Artists- Eden MacAdam-Somer, violin
- Hankus Netsky, piano
Traditional Hindustani | Alap and bandish in raga Puriya Kalyan
Artists- Warren Senders, voice, tamboura
Jerry Leake, Traditional Ewe | A Quality of 6
Artists- Jerry Leake, percussion
Traditonal Persian Classical | Solo Setar Improvisation
Artists- Nima Janmohammadi, setar
John Heiss | Episode 1 for Solo Violin with electronic sound
in memoriam John Heiss
Artists- Eden MacAdam-Somer, violin
Traditional Irish | Ceol Anam (Soul Music)
Artists- Liz Knowles, fiddle
Leon Cardona, Eugenio Martinez, Gentil Montaná | Suite Colombiana
Artists- Lautaro Mantilla, guitar
Ella Jenkins | Wake Up Little Sparrow
Artists- Cristi Catt, voice
- Daniela Tosic, voice (guest artist)
- Rachel Jayson, violin (guest artist)
Artaki Candan | Karcığar Şarkı: "Bu Gece Çamlarda Kalsak Ne Olur / Απόψε, αν θέλεις [Apopse, an theleis]” (What if we were to stay by the pines tonight…)
Artists- Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, voice, oud
- Mal Barsamian, clarinet
Zhenyu Huang (arr. Hui Weng) | Western Theme Fantasia
Artists- Hui Weng, guzheng
Balla Kouyaté | Democracy
Artists- Warren Senders, voice
- Mal Barsamian, clarinet
- Eden MacAdam-Somer, violin, voice, feet
- Liz Knowles, fiddle
- Nima Janmohammadi, lavta
- Hui Weng, guzheng
- Balla Kouyaté, balafon
- Hankus Netsky, piano
- Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, piano
- Jerry Leake, percussion