List of New England Conservatory people
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This is a partial listing of alumni and professors and teachers of the New England Conservatory, Boston.
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Alumni
More former students can be found at :Category:New England Conservatory alumni- Eunice AlbertsEunice AlbertsEunice Alberts is an American contralto who had an active career as a concert soloist and opera singer during the 1950s through the 1980s. She began her career as a concert soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the young age of 19 and quickly became a lauded oratorio singer during the late...
, contralto - Ted AtkatzTed AtkatzTed Atkatz is the founder of and frontman for the Chicago-based alternative rock group NYCO. He is a former principal percussionist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra....
, percussionist - Herbert BlomstedtHerbert BlomstedtHerbert Blomstedt is a Swedish conductor.Herbert Blomstedt was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and two years after his birth, his Swedish parents moved the family back to their country of origin...
, conductor - Neal E. BoydNeal E. BoydNeal E. Boyd is an American pop opera singer. He is best known as the 2008 winner of America's Got Talent.-Early life:Neal E. Boyd, known worldwide as "The Voice of Missouri," grew up in Sikeston, Missouri...
, pop and "opera" singer - Percy Jewett BurrellPercy Jewett BurrellPercy Jewett Burrell was an author and director of historical and civic pageants, or dramas, and was known for his skills in oratory and elocution, . He also taught public speaking and drama, and was known as a "public reciter"...
, dramatist and playwright - Don ByronDon ByronDon Byron is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet, but has also used bass clarinet and saxophones....
, jazz clarinetist and composer - Sarah CaldwellSarah CaldwellSarah Caldwell was a notable American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director of opera.- Life :Caldwell was born in Maryville, Missouri, and grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She was a child prodigy and gave public performances on the violin by the time she was ten years old...
, conductor - Sean CallerySean CallerySean Callery is an film and television composer best known as the composer for the action/drama 24, a TV series for which he also composed three full soundtracks. The first soundtrack, containing music from the first three seasons was released on December 7, 2004...
, composer - Colin CarrColin CarrColin Carr is a British cello soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher.-Biography:Born in Liverpool, Carr is a professor of the cello, currently at the Royal Academy of Music. Carr taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston for sixteen years before taking up his current job at...
, cellist - Regina CarterRegina CarterRegina Carter is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of famous jazz saxophonist James Carter.-Early life:...
, violinist - Young-Chang ChoYoung-Chang ChoYoung-Chang Cho is a Korean classical cellist teaching at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany's Ruhr Area.- Biography :Young-Chang Cho was born in Seoul in 1958. He started cello lessons at the age of eight...
, cellist - John ClarkJohn Clark (musician)John Clark is an American jazz horn player and composer.-Biography:John Clark was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Rochester, New York. His father was William H. Clark, a professor of German and dean of education at the University of Rochester, and his mother was Margaret Garmey. He and his four...
, jazz horn player and composer - Donald Covert, conductor
- Marilyn CrispellMarilyn CrispellMarilyn Crispell is an American jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:Crispell studied classical piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been a resident of Woodstock, NY since 1977 when she came to study and teach at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio...
, jazz pianist - Tan CroneTan CroneTan Crone was a noted Dutch classical pianist...
, pianist - Phyllis CurtinPhyllis CurtinPhyllis Curtin is an American classical soprano who had an active career in operas and concerts from the early 1950s through the 1980s. She was known for her creation of new roles such as the title role in the Carlisle Floyd opera Susannah, Catherine Earnshaw in Floyd's Wuthering Heights, and in...
, soprano - Roberto Diaz, violist
- Dave DouglasDave Douglas (trumpeter)Dave Douglas is an American jazz trumpeter and composer whose music derives from many non-jazz musical styles, including classical music, folk music from European countries and Klezmer. He has been a member of the experimental big band Orange Then Blue...
, jazz trumpet - Marty EhrlichMarty EhrlichMarty Ehrlich is a multi-instrumentalist and is considered one of the leading figures in experimental or avant-garde jazz....
, jazz saxophonist - Halim El-DabhHalim El-DabhHalim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh is an Egyptian-born American composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades...
, composer - Mohammed FairouzMohammed FairouzMohammed Fairouz is an Arab American composer.Having fulfilling many commissions and created a substantial body of frequently performed works, he is considered one of the most sought after composers of the young generation. Fairouz began composing at an early age and studied at the New England...
, composer - Melissa FerlaakMelissa FerlaakMelissa Marie Ferlaak Koch is an American soprano, lead singer for Echoterra and former singer of Aesma Daeva and Visions of Atlantis . She currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is married to Wolfgang Koch, the former guitarist of Visions of Atlantis. The couple married on May 3, 2008...
, soprano - Everett "Vic" FirthVic FirthVic Firth is an American musician and is the founder of Vic Firth Company , a percussion stick and mallet manufacturing company that he started in 1963. The company bills itself as the world's largest manufacturer of drum sticks and mallets...
, percussionist - Satoko FujiiSatoko Fujiiis a Japanese avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. Fujii started playing the piano at age 4, receiving classical training until she was 20, when she became interested in improvisation and jazz....
, avant garde jazz pianist - Michael GandolfiMichael GandolfiMichael James Gandolfi is an American composer of contemporary classical music.Initially a self-taught guitarist, Gandolfi entered the Berklee College of Music before transferring to the New England Conservatory of Music after one year...
, composer - Anthony GliseAnthony GliseAnthony Glise is a guitarist, composer and author. He is the only American guitarist who has won first prize in the International Toscanini Competition held in Italy...
, classical guitarist, composer, author - Judith GordonJudith Gordon-Education:Judith Gordon studied at Oberlin Conservatory and at New England Conservatory where she studied with Patricia Zander.-New York debut:Judith Gordon gave her New York recital debut on May 27, 1990 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the museum’s Introductions series. Bernard...
, pianist - Denyce GravesDenyce GravesDenyce Graves is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.-Early life:Graves was born on March 7, 1964, to Charles Graves and Dorothy Graves-Kenner. She is the middle of three children and was raised by her mother on Galveston Street, S.W., in the Bellevue section of Washington...
, mezzo-soprano - Fred HerschFred HerschFred Hersch is a contemporary American jazz pianist who has become a consistent and highly demanded performer on the international jazz scene....
, jazz pianist - Bud Herseth, trumpet
- Randall HodgkinsonRandall HodgkinsonRandall Hodgkinson is an American pianist. He won the International American Music Competition which was sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Rockefeller Foundation...
, pianist - Dave HollandDave HollandDave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....
, jazz bassist - Winifred HoranWinifred HoranWinifred Horan is an Irish-American fiddler. After classical training, she played with the all-female Celtic music ensemble Cherish the Ladies before becoming an original memberof the Irish traditional music group Solas.-Biography:...
, fiddler
- Rachel Vetter HuangRachel Vetter HuangRachel Vetter Huang is a classical violinist, recording artist and Adjunct Professor in Music at Scripps College. She is also a published scholar in general music, African-American music and jazz...
, violinist and music professor - Rose Fitzgerald KennedyRose Fitzgerald KennedyRose Elizabeth Kennedy was the wife of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and the mother of nine children, among them United States President John F. Kennedy, United States Senator Robert F...
, Kennedy FamilyKennedy familyIn the United States, the phrase Kennedy family commonly refers to the family descending from the marriage of the Irish-Americans Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald that was prominent in American politics and government. Their political involvement has revolved around the...
matriarch - Coretta Scott KingCoretta Scott KingCoretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.Mrs...
, voice (civil rights leader) - Sunny Kim, jazz vocals
- Louis KrasnerLouis KrasnerLouis Krasner was a renowned Ukrainian-born American classical violinist who premiered the violin concertos of Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg.-Biography:...
, violinist - Thomas Oboe LeeThomas Oboe LeeThomas Oboe Lee is a Chinese American composer.- Life :He and his family left Communist China in 1949, and lived in Hong Kong for ten years until 1959, when he moved to São Paulo, Brazil. He emigrated to the USA in the summer of 1966.His musical education began in Brazil during the Bossa Nova craze...
, composer - Andy McGheeAndy McGheeAndy McGhee is a tenor saxophonist and educator.Andy McGhee graduated from New England Conservatory in 1949 and worked for a short time with trumpeter Roy Eldridge and local Boston musician Fat Man Robinson...
, jazz saxophonist, educator - John MedeskiJohn MedeskiAnthony John Medeski is an American jazz keyboards player and composer. Medeski is a veteran of New York's 1990s avant-garde jazz scene and is known popularly as a member of Medeski Martin & Wood...
, jazz pianist - John MoriartyJohn Moriarty (Conductor)John Moriarty , is a conductor and stage director of productions at opera companies throughout the USA, and a noted vocal coach and accompanist. He was born in Fall River, Massachusetts...
, conductor, stage director, pianist - Christopher O'RileyChristopher O'RileyChristopher O'Riley is an American classical pianist and public radio show host. He is the host of the weekly National Public Radio program From the Top. O'Riley is also known for his piano arrangements of songs by alternative artists....
, pianist - Pete RobbinsPete RobbinsPete Robbins is a professional American jazz saxophonist and composer living in Brooklyn. He records for the Barcelona-based label Fresh Sound New Talent....
, jazz saxophonist - Marcus RojasMarcus RojasMarcus Rojas is a tubist from New York City, best known for his work in jazz.He is a graduate of New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and holds a B.M. degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.A longtime member of Spanish Fly, he has played...
, tubist - Jamie SaftJamie SaftJamie Saft is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer living in upstate NY. Saft was born in Flushing Queens, New York in 1971 and is a graduate of both Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music. He has performed and recorded with John Zorn,...
, pianist/multi-instrumentalist - Deke SharonDeke SharonDeke Sharon is an American singer, arranger, composer, director, producer and teacher of a cappella music, and is one of the leaders of the contemporary a cappella community and a pioneer of the contemporary a cappella style, referred to as "the father of contemporary a cappella" by some...
, a cappella vocalist, arranger, producer - Luciana SouzaLuciana SouzaLuciana Souza is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer who has crossed over into classical music.Daughter of poet Tereza Souza and singer-composer-guitarist Walter Santos, she grew up in São Paulo. She is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston from which she received a Bachelor's...
, jazz vocals - David SpelmanDavid SpelmanDavid Spelman is a New York-based music producer and curator working in recordings, films and live events- Early life :...
, guitarist, producer, curator; founder of The New York Guitar Festival. - Lara St. JohnLara St. JohnLara St. John is a Canadian violinist known for her performances as soloist with orchestra and in recital.-Childhood:Lara St. John spent her early childhood in the City of London, Ontario...
, violinist - Eleanor SteberEleanor SteberEleanor Steber was an American operatic soprano. Steber is noted as one of the first major opera stars to have achieved the highest success with training and a career based in the United States.-Biography:...
, soprano - Susie TallmanSusie TallmanSusie Tallman is a singer and recording artist known for recording children's music.Tallman graduated UCLA with a B.A. in voice performance. Tallman then spent several years in Europe, singing with a number of choirs in Paris...
, singer - Cecil TaylorCecil TaylorCecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...
, jazz pianist - Nestor TorresNestor TorresNestor Torres is a jazz flautist who was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico in 1957. He took flute lessons at age 12 and began formal studies at the Escuela Libre de Música, eventually attending Puerto Rico’s Inter-American University. At 18, he moved to New York with his family...
, Latin jazz flutist - Nicholas UrieNicholas UrieNicholas Urie is an American composer of jazz and classical music.Urie was a recipient of the first annual ASCAP Young Jazz Composer’s Award. Urie left Los Angeles to study composition with Bob Brookmeyer in Boston MA...
, jazz composer, arranger - Monir VakiliMonir VakiliMonir Vakili was an Iranian singer.Monir was born to a family of art and music enthusiasts. Her father encouraged her love of opera and supported her decision to study abroad...
, singer - Tom VarnerTom VarnerTom Varner is an American jazz horn player and composer.Varner studied piano in his youth with Capitola Dickerson of Summit, New Jersey. He holds a B.M...
, jazz French hornist, composer - VenetianPrincess, soprano
- Cuong VuCuong Vuis a jazz trumpeter and vocalist.Born in Saigon, he left Vietnam with his family at the age of five in 1975, settling in Bellevue, Washington...
, trumpeter - Vuk KulenovicVuk KulenovicVuk Kulenovic is a contemporary composer and teacher based in Boston, Massachusetts. He teaches counterpoint, orchestration and directed study at Berklee College of Music. He actively composes and has commissions from around the world. His influences are wide-tanging, including jazz, Indian ragas,...
, classical composer - Chou Wen-chungChou Wen-chungChou Wen-chung , Shandong, China) is a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music. He emigrated in 1946 to the United States where he lives.-Life:...
, composer - Raymond Wilding-WhiteRaymond Wilding-WhiteRaymond Wilding-White was a composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music, and photographer/digital artist.- Biography :...
, composer - Bernie WorrellBernie WorrellGeorge Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic...
, pianist, rock musician - Yitzhak YedidYitzhak YedidYitzhak Yedid is an Israeli Australian composer of classical music and jazz pianist.-Biography:Yitzhak Yedid was born on September 29, 1971 in Jerusalem, Israel. His family immigrated from Syria. He studied at the Rubin Academy of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston with Ran Blake...
, composer & pianist - Rachel ZRachel ZRachel Carmel Nicolazzo better known as Rachel Z, is a jazz pianist. She attended the Berklee College of Music Summer School and Manhattan School of Music pre-college, where she launched the quintet, Nardis, whilst studying with Joanne Brackeen and Richie Beirach in NYC. Later Rachel Z graduated...
, jazz performer
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Notable past and present teachers
More former and present teachers can be found at :Category:New England Conservatory faculty- Jeanne BaxtresserJeanne BaxtresserJeanne Baxtresser is an American flutist. She was the principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic for 15 years. She is presently the Vira I. Heinz Professor of Flute at Carnegie Mellon University.-Biography:...
- Jerry BergonziJerry BergonziJerry Bergonzi is a jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and educator. Bergonzi received a B.A. Degree in Music Education from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and is the founder of Not Fat Records....
- Ran BlakeRan BlakeRan Blake is an American pianist and composer from Springfield, Massachusetts. In a career that spans five decades, Blake has created a unique niche in improvised music as an artist and educator...
- Bob BrookmeyerBob BrookmeyerRobert Brookmeyer is an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer.-Biography:Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Brookmeyer first gained widespread public attention as a member of Gerry Mulligan's quartet from 1954 to 1957. He later worked with Jimmy Giuffre...
- Bruce BrubakerBruce BrubakerBruce Ellsworth Brubaker Jr was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in two Major League games, one for the Los Angeles Dodgers in and one for the Milwaukee Brewers in...
- Richard BurginRichard BurginFor the American writer, see Richard Burgin Richard Burgin was a Polish-American violinist, best known as associate conductor and the concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra .-Early life:...
- Jaki ByardJaki ByardJaki Byard was an American jazz pianist and composer who also played trumpet and saxophone, among several other instruments. He was noteworthy for his eclectic style, incorporating everything from ragtime and stride to free jazz...
- Simon CarringtonSimon CarringtonSimon Carrington is a singer, double bass player and conductor. He first performed in the UK where he was born, and more recently in the United States.-External links:* * * * * * * * *...
- Robert CoganRobert CoganRobert Cogan is an American music theorist, composer and teacher, who seeks to challenge new domains of musical composition and theory....
- Vinson ColeVinson ColeVinson Cole is an American operatic tenor.A native of Kansas City, the tenor studied at the University of Missouri, Kansas City; the Philadelphia Musical Academy; and at the Curtis Institute of Music with Margaret Harshaw...
- Francis Judd CookeFrancis Judd CookeFrancis Judd Cooke was an American composer, organist, cellist, pianist, conductor, choir director, and professor.-Life:...
- Gabriel ChodosGabriel ChodosGabriel Chodos is an American pianist who has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Israel.-Education:Chodos's principal teacher was Aube Tzerko, a student of Schnabel. He also studied piano with Leonard Shure at the Aspen Music Festival, Josef Dichler in Vienna, and Carlo...
- Patricia CraigPatricia CraigPatricia Craig is an American operatic soprano and voice teacher.-Operatic career:Born Patricia Duncklee in Long Island, New York, she studied music education at Ithaca College, graduating in 1965. Craig gained her first critical vocal acclaim as a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council...
- Dorothy DelayDorothy DeLayDorothy DeLay was an American violin instructor, primarily at the Juilliard School.She was born in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.-Career and education:...
- Stephen DruryStephen DruryStephen Drury is an American pianist, conductor and electronic musician.Drury has performed and recorded a range of compositions by classical and contemporary composers including Igor Stravinsky, Charles Ives, John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, and John Zorn...
- Lorna Cooke deVaronLorna Cooke deVaronLorna Cooke deVaron is an American choral conductor. She is one of the pre-eminent choral conductors of the 20th century, having given the world premiere or American premiere of many important works by Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Irving Fine, Gunther...
- Robin EubanksRobin EubanksRobin Eubanks is an American jazz and jazz fusion slide trombonist, the brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks and trumpeter Duane Eubanks.-Biography:...
- Pozzi EscotPozzi EscotPozzi Escot is an American composer and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts....
- John FerrilloJohn FerrilloJohn Ferrillo has been the Principal Oboe of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2001. He also teaches at the New England Conservatory and Boston University. Prior to these posts, he was Co-Principal Oboe of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York and a teacher at the Juilliard School...
- Eliot FiskEliot FiskEliot Fisk is an American classical guitarist.-Biography:Fisk was the last direct pupil of Andrés Segovia and is the holder of all reproduction rights to Segovia's music, given to him by Segovia's wife, Emilia...
- D'Anna FortunatoD'Anna FortunatoD'Anna Fortunato is a noted American mezzo-soprano. Among her teachers were Phyllis Curtin and Gladys Childs Miller...
- Michael GandolfiMichael GandolfiMichael James Gandolfi is an American composer of contemporary classical music.Initially a self-taught guitarist, Gandolfi entered the Berklee College of Music before transferring to the New England Conservatory of Music after one year...
- George GarzoneGeorge GarzoneGeorge Garzone is a saxophonist and jazz educator residing in New York city.Saxophonist George Garzone is a member of The Fringe, a jazz trio founded in 1972 that includes bassist John Lockwood and drummer Bob Gullotti, that performs regularly in the Boston area and has toured world wide. The...
- Boris GoldovskyBoris GoldovskyBoris Goldovsky was a Russian conductor and broadcast commentator, active in the United States. He has been called an important "popularizer" of opera in America...
- Bernard GreenhouseBernard GreenhouseBernard Greenhouse was an American cellist and one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio.-Life:Greenhouse was born in Newark, New Jersey. He started his professional studies with Felix Salmond at the Juilliard School when he was eighteen...
- Billy HartBilly HartWilliam "Billy" Hart is a jazz drummer and educator who has performed with some of the most important jazz musicians in history.-Biography:Early on Hart performed in Washington, D.C...
- Fred HerschFred HerschFred Hersch is a contemporary American jazz pianist who has become a consistent and highly demanded performer on the international jazz scene....
- Randall HodgkinsonRandall HodgkinsonRandall Hodgkinson is an American pianist. He won the International American Music Competition which was sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Rockefeller Foundation...
- Dave HollandDave HollandDave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....
- Karen HolvikKaren HolvikKaren Holvik is a classical soprano. She is the daughter of Karl Holvik , clarinetist and conductor, who was Professor of Music at the University of Northern Iowa between 1947 and 1984, and Martha Holvik , violinist, violist, pianist and soprano, who also taught at UNI and founded the UNI Suzuki...
- Lee HylaLee HylaLee Hyla is an American classical music composer.Lee Hyla was born in Niagara Falls, New York, and grew up in Greencastle, Indiana...
- Paul KantorPaul KantorPaul Kantor is recognized as one of the leading violin pedagogues of his generation and is one of the most in-demand teachers in the United States today. Kantor is a professor at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He continues the pedagogical lineage of Dorothy DeLay...
- Kim KashkashianKim KashkashianKim Kashkashian is an Armenian-American violist.-Professional career:Kim Kashkashian studied the viola with Karen Tuttle. She also studied at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. She won the 2nd prize at the 1980 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the 1980 ARD International Music...
- Eyran KatsenelenbogenEyran Katsenelenbogen-Biography:Eyran Katsenelenbogen is a master pianist who has performed throughout the world. In 2009, he has released his tenth solo album, titled 88 Fingers, with a concert tour that included venues in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East....
- Paul KatzPaul KatzPaul Katz is an internationally renowned American cellist, best known for his membership of the Cleveland Quartet. Katz currently teaches at the New England Conservatory following positions at Rice University and the Eastman School of Music. He serves on the National Advisory Board of the...
- Harrison KellerHarrison KellerHarrison Keller was an American violinist and music educator. Keller began his violin studies at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, graduating in 1907. From 1907 to 1911, he continued his studies at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, Germany...
- Rudolf KolischRudolf KolischRudolf Kolisch was a Viennese violinist and leader of string quartets, including the Kolisch Quartet and the Pro Arte Quartet. He played a right-handed violin left-handed—an extremely rare occurrence in classical music settings....
- Eugene LehnerEugene LehnerEugene Lehner was a violist and music educator.Mr. Lehner, as he preferred to be addressed, was born in Hungary in 1906. Originally named Jenö Léner, he performed as a self-taught violinist from the time he was 7. When he was 13, the composer Bela Bartok heard him play, and arranged for him to...
- Joe ManeriJoe ManeriJoseph Gabriel Esther "Joe" Maneri , was an American jazz composer, saxophone and clarinet player. Violinist Mat Maneri is his son....
- Cecil McBeeCecil McBeeCecil McBee is an American post bop jazz bassist, described by the Guinness Who's Who of Jazz as "a full-toned bassist who creates rich, singing phrases in a wide range of contemporary jazz contexts." Allmusic called him "One of post-bop's most advanced and versatile bassists".-Biography:McBee...
- John McNeilJohn McNeilJohn McNeil was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was most noted for his role in the Palmyra Massacre and other acts of alleged brutality.-Early life and career:...
- Ossian Everett MillsOssian Everett MillsOssian Everett Mills was the founder of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts on October 6, 1898.-Life:...
- Gladys Childs MillerGladys Childs MillerGladys Childs Miller was a highly influential voice teacher at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston for over fifty years....
- Donald PalmaDonald PalmaDonald Palma is a prominent classical double bassist, conductor, bass instructor, and educator of ensemble performance. He is a native of New York City, and is a graduate of the Juilliard School. Mr...
- Ann Hobson PilotAnn Hobson Pilot.Ann Hobson Pilot is the Former Principal Harpist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops. She joined the BSO in 1969 as Assistant Principal Harp and Principal Harp of the Boston Pops. She was named Principal Harpist of the BSO in 1980. Prior to joining the BSO in 1969, she was the...
- Danilo PerezDanilo PérezDanilo Pérez is a Panamanian pianist and composer.-Early life:Danilo Pérez was born in Panama in 1965. He is considered one of the finest contemporary pianists and jazz composers of our era....
- Quincy PorterQuincy PorterQuincy Porter was an American composer and teacher of classical music.Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he went to Yale University where his teachers included Horatio Parker and David Stanley Smith. Porter received two awards while studying music at Yale: the Osborne Prize for Fugue, and the...
- Paula Robison
- Carol RodlandCarol RodlandCarol Rodland is an American viola player who studied with Karen Tuttle at the Juilliard school. She was Ms. Tuttle's teaching assistant for several years before taking a position as a viola teacher at the New England Conservatory. In February 2008, it was announced that Ms...
- Eric RosenblithEric RosenblithEric Rosenblith, is an Austrian-born American violinist. He is the former concertmaster of the Indianapolis and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras, and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, Europe, and Asia...
- George Russell
- Ken SchaphorstKen SchaphorstKen Schaphorst is a composer, performer, and educator currently chairing the Jazz Studies and Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Before moving to Boston in 2001, Schaphorst served as Director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin for ten years...
- Gunther SchullerGunther SchullerGunther Schuller is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.- Biography and works :...
- Russell ShermanRussell ShermanRussell Sherman is an American classical pianist, educator and author.Russell Sherman made his debut at The Town Hall in New York at age 15; later studying piano with Edward Steuermann and composition with Erich Itor Kahn...
- Joseph SilversteinJoseph SilversteinJoseph Silverstein is an American violinist and conductor.As a youth, Silverstein studied with his father, Bernard Silverstein, who was a public school music teacher...
- Fenwick SmithFenwick SmithFenwick Smith is an American flautist. He studied under Joseph Mariano at the Eastman School of Music, graduating from there in 1972. Shortly thereafter he became a member of the New England Woodwind Quintet and began a thirteen year membership with Boston Musica Viva...
- Richard StoltzmanRichard StoltzmanRichard Stoltzman is an American clarinetist. Born Richard Leslie Stoltzman in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent his early years in San Francisco, California and Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from Woodward High School in 1960. Today, Stoltzman is part of the faculty list at the New England Conservatory...
- Miroslav VitoušMiroslav VitoušMiroslav Ladislav Vitouš , is a Czech jazz bassist.-Biography:Born in Prague, he began the violin at age six, and started playing the piano at age ten, and bass at fourteen. As a young man in Europe, Vitouš was a competitive swimmer. One of his early music groups was the Junior Trio with his...
- Beveridge WebsterBeveridge WebsterBeveridge Webster was an American pianist and educator.Beveridge Webster studied with his father, initially, and in 1921, at age 14, he began five years of study in Europe, first at the American Academy at Fontainebleau, then at the Paris Conservatory with Isidor Philipp and Nadia Boulanger...
- Blanche WinogronBlanche WinogronBlanche Winogron was an American harpsichordist, pianist, and teacher.She taught at the Mannes College of Music from 1961 to 1969, and the New England Conservatory of Music from 1968 to 1977. Her students included Peter Sykes and Wendy Redlinger...
- Felix WolfesFelix WolfesFelix Wolfes was an American educator, conductor and composer.-Biography:...
- Hugh WolffHugh WolffHugh Wolff is an American conductor.He was born in Paris while his father was serving in the U. S. Foreign Service, then spent his primary-school years in London. He received his higher education at Harvard and at Peabody Conservatory...
- Douglas YeoDouglas YeoDouglas Yeo is bass trombonist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he holds the John Moors Cabot Bass Trombone Chair...
- Edward ZambaraEdward ZambaraEdward Zambara was a Canadian-American bass-baritone singer and leading music educator. He studied opera with Boris Goldovsky and Sarah Caldwell, as well as lieder with Felix Wolfes, Frederic Popper, Jörg Demus, and Eric Werba. Most significantly, Zambara was the pupil of Professor William L...
- Benjamin ZanderBenjamin ZanderBenjamin Zander is an American conductor from the United Kingdom.-External links:* *-Interviews:* * * *...
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