Eben Tourjee is the first president (then director) of the New England Conservatory of Music.

He is succeeded by Carl Faelten (1890), and George Chadwick (1897), Wallace Goodrich (1931), Quincy Porter (1942), Harrison Keller (1947), James Aliferis (1958), Chester Williams (1962), Gunther Schuller (1967), J. Stanley Ballinger (1977), Laurence Lesser (1983), Robert Freeman (1997), Daniel Steiner (2000), Tony Woodcock (2011), and Andrea Kalyn (2019).