List of New England Conservatory people

Last updated May 15, 2025

This is a partial listing of alumni and professors and teachers of the New England Conservatory, Boston.

Alumni

_{More former students can be found at Category:New England Conservatory alumni}

Eunice Alberts, contralto
Charlie Albright, pianist and composer
Kenneth Amis, composer, tuba player, educator, and conductor
Ted Atkatz, percussionist
Martha Atwell, radio director^[1]
Ross Bauer, composer
Rick Beato, musician, YouTuber, music educator
Lauren Bernofsky, composer
Adam Birnbaum, pianist, composer, music educator
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Neal E. Boyd, pop and "opera" singer
Cindy Bradley, jazz trumpet player and composer
Jamie Branch, jazz trumpet player and composer
George Brooks, saxophonist
Alex Brown, pianist
Nellie Moyer Budd, music teacher
Percy Jewett Burrell, dramatist and playwright
Don Byron, jazz clarinetist and composer
Sarah Caldwell, conductor
Sean Callery, composer
Colin Carr, cellist
Regina Carter, violinist
Young-Chang Cho, cellist
John Clark, jazz horn player and composer
Lora Haines Cook, 12th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Becca Conviser, operatic soprano
Marilyn Crispell, jazz pianist
Tan Crone, pianist
Phyllis Curtin, soprano
Rob Dehlinger, trumpeter, singer/songwriter
Roberto Diaz, violist
Mary A. G. Dight, physician
Dave Douglas, jazz trumpet
Marty Ehrlich, jazz saxophonist
Ehud Ettun, bassist and composer
Halim El-Dabh, composer
Mohammed Fairouz, composer
Melissa Ferlaak, soprano
Everett "Vic" Firth, percussionist
Jason Forbach, actor, singer, playwright and filmmaker
David Frank, pianist, producer, composer
Satoko Fujii, avant garde jazz pianist
Michael Gandolfi, composer
Bianca Garcia, flute, politician
Marilinda Garcia, harp, politician
Anthony Glise, classical guitarist, composer, author
Judith Gordon, pianist
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
Marva Griffin Carter, musicologist, author, and professor of music at Georgia State University
Zona Maie Griswold, soprano
D. Antoinette Handy, flautist
Fred Hersch, jazz pianist
Bud Herseth, trumpet
Randall Hodgkinson, pianist
Dave Holland, jazz bassist
Winifred Horan, fiddler
Alan Hovhaness, composer
Marie Jansen, musical theatre actress
Sarah Jarosz, singer/songwriter, mandolin, banjo, guitar
Rebecca Richardson Joslin (1846–1934), author, lecturer, benefactor, clubwoman
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Kennedy Family matriarch
Sunny Kim, jazz vocals
Coretta Scott King, voice, civil rights leader
Nobu Kōda, Japanese violinist, educator, and composer
Mátti Kovler, composer
Louis Krasner, violinist
Vuk Kulenovic, classical composer
Eugene Edward Lacritz, conductor, clarinetist, executive
Brian Landrus, saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer
Thomas Oboe Lee, composer
Ruth Lomon, Canadian composer and pianist
Larry Marshall, actor and singer
Heather Masse, singer
Andy McGhee, jazz saxophonist, educator
John Medeski, jazz pianist
Nellie Brown Mitchell, 19th-century African-American soprano
Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore physician, writer, newspaper editor, activist
John Moriarty, conductor, stage director, pianist
Dorothy Morton, soprano and actress
Aoife O'Donovan, singer/songwriter
Christopher O'Riley, pianist
Cassandra Pinataro, Singer-songwriter
Gladys Pitcher, composer
Conrad Pope, composer, arranger, and film orchestrator
Cora Scott Pond Pope, teacher, pageant writer, real estate developer
Florence Price, composer
Rachael Price, jazz vocalist
Ann Ritonia, U.S. marine and priest
Matana Roberts, jazz saxophonist, composer and visual artist
Pete Robbins, jazz saxophonist
Marcus Rojas, tubist
Lisa Saffer, soprano and teacher
Jamie Saft, pianist/multi-instrumentalist
Nick Sanders, jazz pianist and composer
David Sanford, composer and jazz bandleader
Byron Schenkman, harpsichordist, pianist
Sergey Schepkin, pianist
Andrew Scott, jazz guitarist and professor
Deke Sharon, a cappella vocalist, arranger, producer
Luciana Souza, jazz vocals
David Spelman, guitarist, producer, curator
Mark Sprinkle, tenor
Isabele Taliaferro Spiller, musician, music educator, and school co-founder
Lara St. John, violinist
Eleanor Steber, soprano
Robert Strassburg, composer, conductor, musicologist, professor
Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist
Nestor Torres, Latin jazz flutist
Nicholas Urie, jazz composer, arranger
Monir Vakili, singer
Burr Van Nostrand, composer
Tom Varner, jazz French hornist, composer
VenetianPrincess, soprano
Cuong Vu, trumpeter
Linda Watson (soprano), dramatic soprano and academic voice teacher
Chou Wen-chung, composer
Mildred Weston, author, composer
Elise Fellows White, composer, violinist
Raymond Wilding-White, composer
Henry F. Williams, composer
Bruce Wolosoff, composer
Bernie Worrell, pianist, rock musician
Yitzhak Yedid, composer & pianist
Rachel Z, jazz performer
Nancy Zhou, violinist
Zhu Xiao-Mei, pianist
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_{More former students can be found at Category:New England Conservatory alumni}

Notable past and present teachers

_{More former and present teachers can be found at Category:New England Conservatory faculty}

References

↑ Howes, Durward, ed. (1937). American Women : The Official Who's Who Among the Women of the Nation, Vol. II (1937-38) . Los Angeles, CA: American Publications, Inc. p. 26. 435906904.

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[1] Howes, Durward, ed. (1937). American Women : The Official Who's Who Among the Women of the Nation, Vol. II (1937-38) . Los Angeles, CA: American Publications, Inc. p. 26. 435906904.

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List of New England Conservatory people

Contents

Alumni

Notable past and present teachers

References