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The New England Conservatory (NEC) has announced its 2024 fall season.

The campus-wide festival celebrates American modernism. This article only features classical vocal works.

Tenor Lawrence Brownlee conducts a masterclass with NEC students.

Performance Date: September 12, 2024

Shiyu Zhuo presents a program of Copland, Poulenc, Lingbo Ma, Mozart, and Richard Strauss, assisted by pianist Tanya Blaich.

Performance Date: September 21, 2024

Albanians Fighting Cancer USA presents a gala concert with tenor Rame Lahaj. He is accompanied by Genc Tukici, Proceeds will benefit the organization.

Performance Date: September 28, 2024

Soprano Tanya Blaich gives a faculty recital.

Performance Date: October 15, 2024

Up next is “Liederabend LXXIII.” This series features songs in a variety of languages—not only German—dating from the 19th century up to the present day.

Performance Date: October 16, 2024

The “Seeger/Ives Festival” is a week-long tribute to American musical innovation. Events feature performances of the Ives’ music composers music, “I, Too, Sing America: Ruth Crawford Seeger and Other Untold Stories of America,” as well as five performances of John Musto and Mark Campbell’s opera “Later the Same Evening.”

Performance Dates: November 10-17, 2024

The “Song and Verse” recital series is presented by NEC undergraduate singers.

Performance Date: November 13, 2024

The NEC Liederabend series continues with “LXXIV.”

Performance Date: November 20, 2024

The NEC Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Winds, & Symphonic Choir present works by Gabrieli, Bernstein, Copland, Shaw, and more. Erica J. Washburn conducts the choir.

Performance Date: November 21, 2024

Tenor Dong Eun Yoon presents his Master’s recital. Yoon studies voice with Carole Haber.

Performance Date: November 23, 2024

Soprano Blake Hetherington, who studies voice with Jane Eaglen gives a graduation recital.

Performance Date: November 24, 2024

NEC’s Undergraduate Opera Seminar, under the direction of Michael Meraw, presents two performances of their scenes program.

Performance Dates: November 24 & 25, 2024

First year graduate students present Handel arias and Shakespeare monologues.

Performance Date: December 5, 2024

The NEC Symphonic Choir and organist Thomas Handel perform Maurice Duruflé’s “Requiem,” at the Church of the Covenant. Erica J. Washburn conducts.

Performance Date: December 5, 2024

Mezzo-soprano Sianna Monti gives a graduation recital. Monti studies voice with Jane Eaglen and Carole Haber, and is the recipient of a scholarship made possible by the Gladys Miller Voice Scholarship Fund.

Performance Date: December 8, 2024

Kicking off the holiday season is a choral and winds concert featuring the NEC Chamber Singers, NEC Symphonic Winds, and Navy Band Northeast, led by conductors Erica J. Washburn, William Drury, and Lt. David Harbuziuk.

Performance Date: December 9, 2024

Liederabend “LXXV” closes out the series for this season.

Performance Date: December 11, 2024

The graduate choral conductors in the studio of Erica J. Washburn conduct each other in a wide-ranging program of music from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Performance Date: December 16, 2024