College

Angela Qianwen Shen ’14 MM, ’16 GD recently won a position in the first violin section of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

Alum Mattia C. Maurée ’14 MM and faculty members Ran Blake and Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol honored with finalist awards.

The National Federation of Music Clubs has announced the four 1st prize winners at its 2019 Young Artist Competition in Greenwood, Indiana, United States, including alumnus Alexander Hersh ’15, ’17 MM.

Contemporary Improvisation alumna Magdalena Abrego ’19 MM discusses Input/Output Magazine, launched with the help of an Entrepreneurial Musicianship Grant, with WBUR.

Cellist Jonah Ellsworth ’12 Prep, ’18, ’20 MM studies with Laurence Lesser.

Priya Carlberg ’18, ’20 MM performed “Lush Life” with the NEC Jazz Orchestra and members of the NEC Philharmonia in a Jordan Hall concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of Nat King Cole’s birth.

Zlatomir Fung, age 20, has won first prize in the cello division of the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition.

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts to Balla Kouyaté, balafon player, djeli, and Contemporary Improvisation faculty member.

Robert Bui ’21 won this year's Orchestra Composition Competition with a piece inspired by family history and opposition to censorship and violence.

Jamie Saft ’94, an alumnus of the Tufts/NEC dual degree program, discusses his wide-ranging musical influences and the diversity of his NEC education.