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04/04/2020
So Youve Shifted to Remote Learning. What Now?
Like many colleges and universities, Berklee has transitioned to a remote learning model for the remainder of the spring 2020 semester. While students are adapt...
31/03/2020
Stay at Home Festival Brings Relief to Fans and Artists
Up until very recently, the idea of a concert festival brought to mind a fairly specific picture: huge outdoor stages with walls of speakers, dozens of artists ...
25/03/2020
What the World Needs Now Is This Student-Made Video
When songwriting team Burt Bacharach and Hal David released the song What the World Needs Now Is Love (originally sung by Jackie DeShannon) in 1965, the United ...
23/03/2020
It's Time' for Women to Play a Bigger Role in Music Tech
When alumna Jasmine Kok M.M. '18 began her coursework at Berklees campus in Valencia, Spain, she noticed something: there were no female faculty members and...
23/03/2020
How to Support Artists During the COVID-19 Outbreak
As venues, tours, and festivals shut down in response to aggressive public health measures aimed at flattening the COVID-19 curve, musicians who rely on live gi...
18/03/2020
Scene at Berklee: Noa and Gil Dor
Scene at Berklee presents snapshots and stories from the hundreds of clinics, workshops, performances, and other events that take place in our community year-ro...
17/03/2020
The Music of Heartbeats
The human heart makes a distinctive two-beat sound, familiar to anyone who's ever listened through a stethoscope or felt their own pounding heart. For music...
17/03/2020
Berklee Students Find Harmony in A Cappella Groups
Walk down the halls of any Berklee building and you're likely to hear music: guitar riffs, piano scales, an ensemble mid-rehearsal. But sometimes, usually i...
06/03/2020
Berklee Announces Creation of Dream Theater Scholarship
Berklee and Dream Theater announce the creation of the Dream Theater Scholarship Fund. In celebration of the band's 35th anniversary, Dream Theater and Berk...
03/03/2020
Guerilla Opera to Perform at the Kennedy Center
Boston Conservatory at Berklee alumni group Guerilla Opera will perform Rumpelstiltskin in a free concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ...
03/03/2020
5 Self-Care Tips for Songwriters
Emily Shackelton '07 holds the coveted title of professional songwriter. On a journey that took her from Biwabik, Minnesota, to Berklee College of Music to ...
03/03/2020
Scene at Berklee: Billy Childs and Kenny Werner
Scene at Berklee presents snapshots and stories from the hundreds of clinics, workshops, performances, and other events that take place in our community year-ro...
27/02/2020
Scene at Berklee: Jeff Harleston
When Jeff Harleston became an entertainment lawyer in the mid-1990s, he'd never done a contract negotiation. As a litigator who was part of the prosecution ...
27/02/2020
Scene at Berklee: Songwriting Sprint
Scene at Berklee presents snapshots and stories from the hundreds of clinics, workshops, performances, and other events that take place in our community year-ro...
26/02/2020
Scene at Berklee: Michael League
Scene at Berklee presents snapshots and stories from the hundreds of clinics, workshops, performances, and other events that take place in our community year-ro...
25/02/2020
Scene at Berklee: Jeff Coffin
Scene at Berklee presents snapshots and stories from the hundreds of clinics, workshops, performances, and other events that take place in our community year-ro...
20/02/2020
Miguel Zenn Berklee Quintet Performs at the Red Room at Cafe 939
On March 11, the Miguel Zen n Berklee Quintet will perform at the Red Room at Cafe 939. Led by jazz saxophone legend Miguel Zen n B.M. 98, the concert will fea...
20/02/2020
Scene at Berklee: YBN Cordae
Scene at Berklee presents snapshots and stories from the hundreds of clinics, workshops, performances, and other events that take place in our community year-ro...
15/02/2020
Scene at Berklee: Grandmaster Flash
Scene at Berklee presents snapshots and stories from the hundreds of clinics, workshops, performances, and other events that take place in our community year-ro...
13/02/2020
You've Probably Never Heard This Instrument. Matthew Baker Wants to Change That.
Sometimes, innovation begins with a look to the past. In 2004, before he joined...
11/02/2020
Associate Professor Margaret McAllister Named Fulbright Scholar
Margaret McAllister, an associate professor in the Composition Department, has been named a Fulbright Scholar. With her award, Berklee has been recognized in th...
10/02/2020
Berklee Presents The Show-a Pop Music Spectacle-on March 5
Acclaimed producer, musician, and composer Rob Lewis '94 will present The Show as part of the Signature Series at Berklee on Thursday, March 5, at 8:00 p.m....
07/02/2020
Berklee Stars Dance for a Cause
The Richard Ortner Studio Building at Boston Conservatory at Berklee saw a different kind of dance performance recently, as nine members of Berklee's facult...
06/02/2020
Charene Wade on Setting Boundaries and Creating Connections
Singer, composer, arranger, and educator Charen e Wade was the latest guest of the Gathering, an ongoing series hosted by the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justi...
04/02/2020
Berklee and Boston Public Library Launch New Winter Concert Series
The Boston Public Librarys Winter Concert Series, presented in partnership with Berklee, features free acoustic concerts by Berklee artists performing in styles...
04/02/2020
Berklee Presents The Coming: Black History Month Celebration
The Signature Series at Berklee presents The Coming: Black History Month Celebration on Thursday, February 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Berklee Performance Center. T...
03/02/2020
Precious Perez Draws Musical and Academic Inspiration from Agua de Valencia
Each semester, dozens of Berklee students swap their Berklee IDs for passports, traveling across the ocean to study at Berklee's campus in Valencia, Spain. ...
01/02/2020
8 Ways to Graduate on Time (and with Less Debt)
Navigating the world of college can be overwhelming-especially when youre trying to graduate on time and pay for it all. But there are ways to put together a pl...
31/01/2020
Can You Land a Successful Career with a Performing Arts Degree?
As the story goes, Ray Charles, with 12 minutes left in a four-hour show near Pittsburgh in 1958, had run out of material. He took a breath, placed his fingers ...
31/01/2020
Berklee Announces Spring 2020 Signature Series
The Signature Series at Berklee returns with performances by students, faculty, alumni, and world-renowned, award-winning musicians. The spring half of the 2019...
29/01/2020
Berklees Student Newspaper Finds a New Groove
Berklee's online student newspaper has a fresh look for 2020-and, its editorial staff is hoping, a new sound as well. The redesigned Berklee Groove websit...
27/01/2020
Abria Smith Appointed to the Boston Cultural Council
Abria Smith, associate director of community engagement in Berklees Office of Community and Government Relations, has been named to the Boston Cultural Council....
27/01/2020
Berklee Alumni Win Grammys on Music's Biggest Night
Berklee alumni were recognized with the music industry's highest honor on Sunday, January 26, at the 62nd Grammy Awards. Esperanza Spalding B.M. 05 '18...
24/01/2020
The Women of Jazz's Next Generation Are More than Extraordinary'
The Monterey Jazz Festival has been a mainstay of jazz artistry and innovation for more than 60 years, known not just for its annual concert series, but also fo...
23/01/2020
Precious Perez Draws Musical and Academic Inspiration from Agua de Valencia'
Each semester, dozens of Berklee students swap their Berklee IDs for passports, traveling across the ocean to study at Berklee's campus in Valencia, Spain. ...
23/01/2020
Yoron Israel Named Chair of the Percussion Department
Berklee has named Yoron Israel chair of the Percussion Department. Israel, a drummer, composer, bandleader, vibraphonist, percussionist, and author, previously ...
22/01/2020
Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice Celebrates New Standards by Women Composers
Students representing the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice will perform with jazz greats Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, and Linda May Han Oh on ...
22/01/2020
You Cant Be It if You Dont See It: Ayanna Pressley Urges Representation in the Arts
The annual Berklee City Music Unsung Heroes Ceremony celebrates the contribution...
18/01/2020
DOMi and JD Beck to Perform at the Red Room at Cafe 939
On February 12, DOMi and JD Beck will perform at the Red Room at Cafe 939 at Berklee. Having received worldwide acclaim for their personal brand of jazz music, ...
17/01/2020
Little Big Towns New Lead Track Has Berklee Roots
Hillary Reynolds B.M. 10 has been writing songs for long enough to know: you can never be sure where a song's journey will lead. The songwriting alumna, ...
14/01/2020
Overwatch Composer Adam Burgess Charts a Path from Berklee to Blizzard Entertainment
A few years after graduating from Berklee with a degree in contemporary writing ...
08/01/2020
Student Clubs Offer Friendship, Experience, and Even a Little Magic
The average Berklee student has a packed schedule. Besides their regular coursework, students spend their time taking private lessons, participating in (often m...
21/12/2019
Listen to the Berklee Artists Who Made 2019s Best Music
It was a great year for music-especially for the 28 Berklee community members who earned Grammy nominations, and for the impressive number whose contributions t...
20/12/2019
Slideshow: Berklee Student Ensembles Show off Their Skills
Each semester, Berklees student ensembles wrap up their coursework with public performances around campus, sharing the music theyve been working on for months. ...
18/12/2019
Five Decades on, Jimmy Buffett Is Still Cultivating His Audience
The students who showed up to the Berklee Performance Center on a recent afternoon weren't searching for a lost shaker of salt. But what they found, as they...
18/12/2019
Tonya Butler Named Chair of Music Business/Management
Tonya Butler Image courtesy of Kelly Davidson Berklee College of Music has appointed Tonya Butler as chair of the Music Business/Management Department. She wi...
17/12/2019
Applications Open for the Julio Iglesias Scholarship
The Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation is accepting applications for the Julio Iglesias Scholarship from students admitted to Berklee College of Music who are int...
13/12/2019
Student Advice for a Smooth Finals Week
Finals week is fast approaching, and with it, the pressure that end-of-semester projects and exams can build. The team of peer wellness educators in Berklees Of...
11/12/2019
Former Fox Music President Robert Kraft Makes His Own Lane
Addressing the packed Berk Recital Hall on campus last month, music industry giant Robert Kraft seemed astonished to find himself looking back on his career wit...
11/12/2019
Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra Performance Spans Countries, Cultures, and History
On November 22, the anniversary of President John F. Kennedys assasination in 19...
