NEC Philharmonia + Symphonic Choir: Bartók & Shostakovich

NEC: Jordan Hall | Directions

290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA
United States

The NEC Symphonic Choir joins the NEC Philharmonia in two very different 20th century choral pieces. Bartók features women’s voices for his exuberant Slovakian Three Village Scenes, while Shostakovich uses only men’s voices—a male choir and a bass soloist—for his epic song cycle, Symphony No. 13, “Babi Yar.” Shostakovich took part of his text from Yevgeny Yevtushenko's 1961 poem, Babi Yar, a protest against the Soviet Union's refusal to identify Babi Yar, a ravine in the suburbs of Kiev, as a site of the mass murder of 33,000 Jews on September 29–30, 1941.

Hugh Wolff conducts and William Meinert is the bass soloist.

This performance is open to in-person audiences, and is also viewable via livestream.

Watch the livestream from Jordan Hall

Ensembles
  • NEC Philharmonia
  • NEC Symphonic Choir
Conductors
Artists

  1. Béla Bartók | Three Village Scenes (1926)

    Wedding (Svatba)
    Lullaby (Ukoliebavka)
    Lad's Dance (Tanec Mládencov)

     

    Sopranos/Altos of NEC Symphonic Choir

    Oluwanimofe Akinyanmi
    Aislin Alancheril
    Brittany Bryant
    Chen Chen
    Jing Chen
    Despina Dassouras
    Sophia Grace Donelan
    Runyu Feng
    Rachel Fredette
    Rachel Gu
    Siyuan Amelia Guan
    Yujin Han
    Jinyu He
    Blake Hetherington
    Dohyun Kim
    Mengyuan Li
    Qianqian Li
    Ssu-Hsuan Sandy Li
    Yunqi Li
    Yen Yu Tiffany Lin
    Mei Luo
    Sally Millar
    Hannah Miller
    Sianna Monti
    Jiaruo Shi
    Qiu Qiu
    Emma Schoetz
    Jiaruo Aria Shi
    Anisha Srinivasan
    Claire Stephenson
    Wanrou Tang
    Ke Xin Tian
    Sophia Tseng
    Xiaoye Wei
    Shan Shan Xie
    Grace Yu
    Jessica Yuma
    Yukun Zhang
    Zhaoqian Ellie Zhong
    Ling Zhou

     

    NEC Philharmonia

    First Violin
    Hannah Chaewon Kim

    Second Violin
    Hannah Goldstick

    Viola
    Julian Sneige-Seney

    Cello
    Jonathan Salman

    Bass
    Misha Bjerken

    Flute/Piccolo
    Javier Castro

    Oboe/English horn
    Kip Zimmerman

    Clarinet
    Erica Smith
    Tristan Broadfoot

    E-flat Clarinet
    Erica Smith

    Alto Saxophone
    Rayna DeYoung

    Bassoon
    Chaoyang Jing

    French horn
    Yeonjo Oh

    Trumpet
    Sarah Heimberg

    Trombone
    Puyuan Chen

    Percussion
    Pei Hsien Lu

    Harp
    Yvonne Cox‡

    Piano
    Da-Yu Liu

     

  2. Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphony No. 13 in B-flat Minor, op. 113 ("Babi Yar")

    Babi Yar
    Humor
    In the Store
    Fears
    Careers

     

    Tenors/Basses of NEC Symphonic Choir

    Isaac Berglind
    Hongbo Cai
    Garrett Comrie
    Su Cong
    Andrew Minoo Dixon
    Yuxin Duan
    Yan Fang
    Edward Ferran
    Jaden Fogel
    Abisal Gergiev
    Jiawei Gong
    Dermot Gleeson
    Killian Grider
    Changjin Ha
    Cameron Hayden
    Weza Jamison-Neto
    Owen Johnson
    Jonah Kernis
    Loren Kim
    Jordan Chun Kwan Lau
    Che Li
    Pengyi Li
    Yuhang Li
    Shawn Xiangyun Lian
    Jonas Shaocheng Man
    Colin Miller
    Yechan Min
    Tristan Murphy
    Xiaoyu Frank Sang
    Jonathan Senik
    Xingrong Shao
    Hanwen Shi
    Yide Shi
    Tamir Shimshoni
    Alexander Tsereteli
    Joseph Vasconi
    Qizhen Steven Wang
    Ranfei Wang
    Tianyou Wang
    Yinuo Wang
    Yuki Yoshimi
    Sean Yu
    Yukun Zhang
    ZhuoYa Zhu


     

    NEC Philharmonia

    First Violin
    Emma Carleton
    Haerim Oh
    Jimmy Wang
    Dongyoung Shim
    Liyuan Xie
    Esther Yang
    Jeffrey Pearson
    Ruoran Yu
    Dorson Chang
    Bree Fotheringham
    Yebin Yoo
    Evelyn Song

    Second Violin
    Evan Hjort
    Passacaglia Mason
    Seunghee Lee
    Isabella Gorman
    Yilei Yin
    Anthony Chan
    Justus Ross
    Aidan Ip
    Eunha Kim
    Haekyung Ju
    Liyuán Xiè

    Viola
    Pierre Trache
    Elton Tai
    Ayano Nakamura
    Wonjeong Seol
    Bram Fisher
    Man To Kwong
    Anna Mann
    John Harry Clark
    Hyelim Kong

    Cello
    Joan Herget
    Emma Fisher
    Josephina You Kyung Kim
    Jungah Lee
    Claire Park
    Yuri Ahn
    Jonathan Salman

    Bass
    Gregory Manuel Padilla
    Chiyang Chen
    Christopher Laven
    Misha Bjerken
    Minyi Wang

    Flute
    Erika Rohrberg
    Jeong Won Choe

    Piccolo
    Yeyoung Moon

    Oboe
    Izumi Amemiya
    Samuel Rockwood
    Nathalie Graciela Vela

    English horn
    Samuel Rockwood

    Clarinet
    Soyeon Park
    Tyler Bourque
    Hugo Kweon

    E-flat Clarinet
    Hugo Kweon

    Bass Clarinet
    Hugo Kweon

    Bassoon
    Andrew Brooks
    John Fulton
    Evan Judson

    Contrabassoon
    Evan Judson

    French horn
    Hannah Messenger
    Alex Daiker
    Tasha Schapiro
    Karlee Kamminga

    Trumpet
    Wentao Xiao
    Dimitri Raimonde
    David O’Neill

    Trombone
    Katie Franke
    Matt Vezey

    Bass Trombone
    Changwon Park

    Tuba
    David Stein

    Timpani
    Tennison Watts

    Percussion
    Ross Hussong
    Taylor Lents
    Hayoung Song
    Yiming Yao

    Harp

    Yvonne Cox
    Zi Li

    Piano, Celeste
    Da-Yu Liu

     

    Artists
    • William Meinert, bass soloist
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