New England Conservatory's CMA Spring Ensemble Festival will present student ensembles performing West African, Middle Eastern, Jewish, American Roots, and Indie/Punk/Art Rock music. All festival events are free and open to the public.
The New England Conservatory will host a faculty recital with guest artists including Gordon Beeferman, Eden MacAdam-Somer, and Joe Morris, alongside CMA students.
A current student and an alum of New England Conservatory have been selected for the 2026 Residency Commissions from The Jazz Gallery. Bassist and composer Hannah Marks (’26), a master’s student in NEC’s Jazz Studies program, and pianist Jonathan Paik (’23) are among three emerging artists chosen annually for the honor.
Next Jazz Legacy has revealed the eight emerging improvisers in jazz that make up its 2025 cohort. Learn more about the color and about Next Jazz Legacy!
Catch the encore performance of IF I DID, YOU DESERVED IT at UNDER ST MARKS on July 27 at 10:30 PM. Don’t miss this unique theatrical experience.
Laurizarry will present IF I DID, YOU DESERVED IT written by Jess Lauricello and directed by Casey Kelly. The production will be presented as part of the 2024 Queerly Festival with FRIGID New York at UNDER St. Marks (94 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009) on Friday, June 21 at 7:00pm.
Celebrate spring at New England Conservatory with a full day of music, food and dance during the Contemporary Musical Arts department's Small Ensembles Festival on Sunday, May 5. The department will also celebrate its small ensembles on Wednesday and Thursday, May 1 and 2.
New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department has appointed Grammy Award-winning trombonist and composer Kalia Vandever to its faculty beginning in the fall of 2024.
Atlantic Theater Company will present their 2024 Gala on Monday, April 29, 2024 at The Plaza. See who is taking part and learn how to purchase tickets.
Don't miss Mary Halvorson's Amaryllis ensemble at the 92nd Street Y in New York on February 10, 2024. Tickets start at $25.
Arts for Art has announced a new partnership with the West Harlem Art Fund to present In Gardens at Governors Island. In Gardens at Governors Island will feature two afternoons of FreeJazz performances, Melanie Dyer's Siren Xypher on August 26th and Alexis Marcelo Trio on August 27th.
Join multiplatinum and eight-time Billboard chart topping guitarist Esteban and his band for a concert like none other at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Phoenix on Saturday, November 4.
Renowned for his emotive performances and exemplary classical and flamenco guitar, the critically acclaimed Esteban will be performing multiple must-attend intimate concerts at Sound Bites Grill in Sedona this summer.
New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts Program shines a spotlight on alumni with Live at the Burren on Saturday, June 17.
In celebration of music and community, Valley residents are invited to bring their Independence Day spirit to an exclusive July 4 concert by critically acclaimed guitarist Esteban, taking place at El Pedregal at The Boulders in Scottsdale.
New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts program celebrates spring with a day-long CMA Small Ensemble Festival featuring music, food and dance on Sunday, May 7.
Renowned for his emotive performances and exemplary classical and flamenco guitar, the critically acclaimed Esteban will be performing multiple must-attend intimate concerts in Northern Arizona this spring. These include monthly performances at Sound Bites Grill in Sedona and two special Mother's Day concerts in Prescott.
After a thrilling inaugural festival in 2021, JACK returns to its DIY roots for their annual performance festival: Radical Acts. From November 9 - 19 JACK will be home to all things radical — radical joy, radical mayhem, radical vulnerability, and radical confrontations with today's pressing issues.
Clocking in at nearly two hours and featuring six extended pieces flowing across two discs, Universal Tonality documents a performance that took place at Roulette in Manhattan's TriBeCa neighborhood in December 2002 (one of the final concerts at the venue's original loft space). Parker invited 16 musicians of various ages, cultures and backgrounds.
Look at it one way and you might see two horn/guitar/drum trios; turn slightly and suddenly it becomes three paired artists taking their shared instruments in radically different directions. Despite the unusual instrumentation of the ensemble, however, Triple Double is at its core a group of six distinctive individuals, each among the most innovative and singular voices in contemporary creative music – drummers Tomas Fujiwara and Gerald Cleaver, guitarists Mary Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook, and trumpeter Ralph Alessi and cornet player Taylor Ho Bynum.
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