 John Heiss
Flute; Chamber Music; Composition; Music History & Musicology; Music Theory; masterclasses on extended flute technique;
Director of Contemporary Ensemble
John Heiss is an active composer, conductor, flutist, and teacher. His works have been performed worldwide, receiving premieres by Speculum Musicae, Boston Musica Viva, Collage New Music, the Da Capo Chamber Players, Aeolian Chamber Players, Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, and Alea III. He has received awards and commissions from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Fromm Foundation, NEA, Rockefeller Foundation, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, ASCAP, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His principal publishers are Boosey & Hawkes, E.C. Schirmer, and Elkus & Son.
Heiss has been principal flute of Boston Musica Viva and has performed with many local ensembles, including the BSO.
His articles on contemporary music have appeared in Winds Quarterly, Perspectives of New Music, and The Instrumentalist. Along with Juilliard faculty Joel Sachs, Heiss has designed and written a book/CD-Rom classical music primer for Blue Marble Music entitled Classical Explorer.
Starting in the 1970s, Heiss has directed many NEC festivals dedicated to composers or themes, and has spearheaded visits to NEC by many composers, including Ligeti, Lutoslawski, Berio, Carter, Messiaen, Schuller, and Tippett.
At Commencement 1998, John Heiss received NEC's Louis and Adrienne Krasner Teaching Excellence Award.
B.A. in mathematics, Lehigh University; M.F.A., music, Princeton University. Composition with Milton Babbitt, Edward T. Cone, Earl Kim, Otto Luening, Darius Milhaud; flute with Arthur Lora, James Hosmer, Albert Tipton. Recordings on TelArc, Nonesuch, CRI, Golden Crest, Arista, Turnabout, Video Artists International, Boston Records, AFKA. Former faculty of Columbia University, Barnard College, MIT, NEC Institute at Tanglewood.
In addition to his work in multidisciplinary role in NEC College studies, John Heiss teaches flute to NEC Preparatory and Continuing Education students.
 Renée Krimsier
As a soloist and chamber musician flutist Renée Krimsier has made a name for herself in the areas of contemporary and classical repertoire. She is former director of and performer in the "Intermezzi" concert series at Charleston’s prestigious Spoleto Festival U.S.A. as well as the "Incontri Musicali" series at the Spoleto Festival in Italy. As a chamber musician she has toured with the Aurora Trio, is a member of Boston Musica Viva, and participates in the festivals in Marlboro, Tanglewood, and La Musica in Sarasota. Dedicated to the exploration of contemporary music, Krimsier has commissioned a number of new works. She is former principal flute of the Filarmonica de Caracas in Venezuela and the Charleston Symphony in South Carolina.
 Paula Robison
Donna Hieken Flute Chair
concert halls and music festivals in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Far East, at the United Nations, and at the White House. At NEC, she occupies a teaching chair endowed in 2005 by Charles "Chuck" and Donna Hieken, with matching funds from the Nicholas Family Challenge.
At age 20, Robison was invited by Leonard Bernstein to be a soloist with the New York Philharmonic. Robison joined the Young Concert Artists roster and became the first American to win First Prize at the Geneva International Competition. She has been profiled on CBS-TV's "Sunday Morning," in The New York Times, Musical America, People, Women Who Rock, Virtuoso, and Ovation magazines, and has performed on television's "Live from Lincoln Center," "Christmas at the Kennedy Center," and "The Today Show."
A founding member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Robison was also a participant in the Spoleto Festival for over 30 years, earning her the Premio Pegaso and the Adelaide Ristori prizes for her contribution to Italian cultural life.
Robison has commissioned works for flute and orchestra by Leon Kirchner, Toru Takemitsu, Oliver Knussen, Kenneth Frazelle, and Robert Beaser.
Publications: The Paula Robison Flute Warmups Book, The Andersen Collection (European American Music Publishers), Paula Robison Flute Masterclass: Paul Hindemith (Schott), The Sidney Lanier Collection, Paula Robison Masterclass: Frank Martin (Universal Edition), To a Wild Rose (G. Schirmer-Associated).
B.S., The Juilliard School; D.M.A. honoris causa, San Francisco Conservatory. Studies with Marcel Moyse and Julius Baker. Recordings on Mode, Bridge, MusicMasters, Marlboro Recording Society, CBS Masterworks, Sony Classical, Vanguard, Omega, Pergola Recordings.
 Elizabeth Rowe
Flute (BSO principal)
Elizabeth Rowe was appointed to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Walter Piston Principal Flute chair in 2004 and joined the NEC faculty a year later. An accomplished orchestral musician, she held titled positions with the orchestras of Fort Wayne, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. before coming to Boston at age 29.
Equally at home in front of the orchestra, Rowe made her BSO solo debut at Tanglewood in 2008, under the direction of André Previn. She joins Music Director James Levine and the BSO to perform the American premiere of Elliott Carter’s Flute Concerto in February 2010. In August 2010, Rowe will be featured in Gabriela Lena Frank’s Illapa: Tone Poem for Flute and Orchestra, also with the BSO. Rowe’s connection to the BSO dates back to the summer of 1996, when she was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and performed as principal flute under the direction of Seiji Ozawa in Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes.
As a member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Elizabeth Rowe performs a wide variety of chamber works throughout the season at NEC's Jordan Hall. Her recording with the Chamber Players of Mozart’s Quartet in A Major for flute and strings received critical acclaim.
Noted for her insightful teaching, Rowe attracts flute students from around the country to her lessons and masterclasses. In addition to her regular teaching duties at NEC and Tanglewood, she recently returned to Los Angeles to join her own teacher, Jim Walker, former principal flute of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as a guest teacher at his week-long intensive course, “Beyond the Masterclass.”
Bachelor of Music (Trustee Scholar), University of Southern California. Studies with Jim Walker. Former faculty of Peabody Conservatory of Music, University of Maryland. Also faculty and guest artist at Tanglewood Music Center, National Orchestral Institute of Music, New World Symphony.
Chamber music plays an important role in Fried’s musical life. She is a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Garrick Ohlsson, Nathaniel Rosen and her husband, violinist/violist Paul Biss. She has been featured guest artist at Chamber Music East in Boston, the La Solla Chamber Festival, the Lockenhaus Festival, and the Naantali Festival in Finland.
Miriam Fried’s successful solo career was launched in 1968 after she was awarded First Prize in Genoa’s Paganini International Competition. Three years later she claimed top honors in the Queen Elisabeth International Competition where she gained further world attention by becoming the first woman ever to win the prestigious award. Her early childhood included lessons with Alice Fenyves in Tel Aviv, as well as the opportunity to meet and play for the many great violinists who visited Israel, including Isaac Stern, Nathan Milstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Henryk Szeryng, Zino Francescatti and Erica Morini. She came to the United States as a protegee of Isaac Stern and continued her studies with Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School and with Joseph Gingold at Indiana University. Before coming to NEC, Fried served on the faculty of Indiana University.
Violin with Isaac Stern, Alice Fenyves, Lorand Fenyves, Paul Makanowitsky, Ivan Galamian, and Joseph Gingold. Recordings on Koss, Lyrinx, and Finlandia.
Synthia Meyers
Cynthia Meyers joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as piccolo in fall 2006; she occupies the Evelyn and C. Charles Marran Chair at the BSO. Meyers joins the New England Conservatory flute faculty in fall 2014.
Before coming to Boston, Meyers served as the principal piccolo of the Houston Symphony for nine years under the direction of both Christoph Eshenbach and Hans Graf. She is the former principal flutist of the Omaha Symphony, a post that she held for nine seasons. During her tenure in Omaha, she had been a featured soloist with the orchestra on numerous occasions.
A native of Somerset, Pennsylvania, Meyers began playing the piano at age 3. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Carnegie Mellon University and finished her Master of Music at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Jeffrey Khaner, principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She took an interest in playing the piccolo while in Cleveland, and continued study solely on that instrument with William Hebert, of the Cleveland Orchestra.
In addition to playing with the BSO and teaching privately, Meyers has performed at the Grand Teton Music Festival with colleagues from other major orchestras around the country. She has also performed with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony.
B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University; M.M., Cleveland Institute of Music. Studies with Jeffrey Khaner, William Hebert.
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