NEC Preparatory School Youth Chorale and Children's Chorus

Benjamin Britten | Cuckoo! from "Friday Afternoons"

Laura Nevitt | The Bird of Paradise from "The Gray Bird"

George Frideric Handel | Art Thou Troubled? from "Rodelinda"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Alleluia from "Exsultate, jubilate!"

African-American Spiritual (arr. Rollo Dilworth) | I've Got Peace Like a River

NEC Preparatory School Children’s Chorus
 

Laura Nevitt, director
Lena Wong ’25 MM, student manager
Chris Lockman, rehearsal accompanist

Rosie Bateman
Nina Dundas
Eliza Gastrock
VirginiaGoldenheim
Julian Markard Hirshfield
Savannah Kaminsky
Johanna Lam
Olivia Lam
Lily Li-Nagy
Ivy Liao
Rachel Ma
Elyza Oglice
Esthera Oglice
Victoria Paramova
Emily Peng
William Peng
Jai Sathiraju
Judá Soto
Jessica Tang
Alexander Wagtowicz
Adam Zhang
Sam Zhou

Laura Nevitt is a conductor, composer, and educator based in Boston. She is Founder and Artistic Director of Lilith Vocal Ensemble, Children’s Chorus Director at NEC Prep, Associate Conductor at Voices Boston Children’s Choir, a Teaching Artist with Boston Lyric Opera and Handel & Haydn Society, and Music Director at First Parish UU in Needham, MA, where she is also Artistic Director of the newly formed “To The Fore” Concert Series, focused on bringing historically marginalized voices to the forefront.
        As a composer, Laura is especially passionate about giving voice and space to gender marginalized musicians and poets through choral and vocal music. Their compositions have been performed by musicians across the country, including the Handel & Haydn Society Youth Choruses, Choral Arts Initiative, the Evelyn Duo, Voices Boston Children’s Choir, Boston Conservatory Choir, Nightingale Vocal Ensemble, Lilith Vocal Ensemble, BRACE New Music Choir, the UofSC Concert Choir, and the Choir of Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge.

Emma Lou Diemer | Three Madrigals

O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
Take, oh, take those lips away
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more

Latvian Folksong (arr. Laura Jēkabsone) | unaM udēB

Vincent Persichetti

dominic has a doll from Four Cummings Choruses

sam was a man

Traditional Ecuadorian (arr. Gerardo Guevara) | Apamuy Shengo

Scottish Folk Tune (arr. Bryan Sharpe) | Skye Boat Song

Randall Thompson | The Road Not Taken from "Frostiana"

NEC Youth Chorale