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9 unusual facts about New England Conservatory


Aleksandre Korsantia

He is internationally active as a concert pianist and is a member of the piano faculty at Boston's New England Conservatory.

Evren Celimli

Evren began violin lessons in grade school and took music theory, piano, and composition lessons at the New England Conservatory extension school at 11 years old.

New England Conservatory

The conservatory has served as a training ground for orchestral players to fill the ranks of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, much like the Curtis Institute serves as a training ground for the Philadelphia Orchestra, although composers, pianists, and singers are offered courses of study as well.

The Youth Philharmonic Orchestra formerly headed by Benjamin Zander is arguably the most selective group at the school.

The NEC campus consists of three buildings on both sides of Gainsborough Street, between St. Botolph Street and Huntington Avenue, one block from Symphony Hall.

The conservatory, located on Huntington Avenue of the Arts near Boston Symphony Hall, is home each year to 750 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies along with 1400 more in its Preparatory School as well as the School of Continuing Education.

Ning An

He subsequently continued his studies under the tutelage of Russell Sherman at the New England Conservatory.

Olivia Ward

She continued her education, earning a double master's degree in voice and in opera performance in 2002 from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Oscar Martel

He taught at both the New England Conservatory and at the Chicago Musical College.


Klezmer Conservatory Band

The Klezmer Conservatory Band is a Boston-based group which performs traditional klezmer music; it was formed by Hankus Netsky of the New England Conservatory of Music in 1980.

Le roi des étoiles

The recordings conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas on Deutsche Grammophon (Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New England Conservatory Chorus, 1972), Riccardo Chailly on Decca/London (Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, 1984), Robert Craft on Music Masters Classics (Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Gregg Smith Singers, 1995), and Pierre Boulez on Deutsche Grammophon (Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, 1996) all include them.

Ossian Everett Mills

In 1886, Mills originated the practice of taking a group of New England Conservatory students to perform for patients in Boston hospitals on Christmas and Easter.

Paul E. Beaudoin

Dr. Beaudoin received his education from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL (BM, 1983); the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA (MM with Academic Distinction, 1987) and a Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory from Brandeis University in 2002.

Reede-drum

New England Conservatory, Northwestern University, Florida State University and California State University have featured the reede-drum as the primary instrument of percussion majors.

Tan Crone

She studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory, then with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and finally in the United States at the New England Conservatory and Tanglewood.

United States Coast Guard Band

According to the Coast Guard, competition for its limited vacancies is fierce, and many new Coast Guardsmen enlisting as musicians are conservatory-trained with degrees from elite institutions including the Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music, and the New England Conservatory.


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Chaerin Kim

Kim completed her Masters of Music degree program at Yale University, where she performed with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra as an orchestra harpist at Carnegie Hall, and got invited for the artist diploma at Yale University and the graduate diploma at New England Conservatory.

Daniel Pinkham

He received honorary degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music as well as from Nebraska Wesleyan University, Adrian College, Westminster Choir College, Ithaca College, and the Boston Conservatory.

Jacques Urlus

That same year, he was elected as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity at the New England Conservatory of Music.

Lee Pattison

Pattison met Guy Maier, who was then a student at the New England Conservatory.

Poetry Records

He holds a masters degree from the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston), where he studied with great guitarist Maestro Eliot Fisk.