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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...
11/12/2019
Ricky Duran Lights Up the Semifinals on The Voice
Earlier this week, Ricky Duran B.M. '11 advanced to the final round of NBC's The Voice with a showstopping rendition of the Beatles's Let It Be. ...
10/12/2019
Berklee Names Former Academic Chair Sean Hagon Dean of Career Education and Services
Sean Hagon Berklee has named Sean P. Hagon associate dean of career education a...
10/12/2019
Making Space for Different Bodies: Toby MacNutt on Dance and Disability
For Toby MacNutt, a queer, nonbinary trans, and disabled dancer and choreographer, adapting is a constant part of their work, whether teaching or learning. In t...
10/12/2019
Zakir Hussain and the Art of Forgetting
To hear the Grammy-winning tabla master Zakir Hussain 19H talk about his instrument, it can sound like he's speaking about a respected loved one. In fact, h...
04/12/2019
Andrew Sarlos Big Year: On Producing for Bon Iver, Big Thief, and More
Producer Andrew Sarlo '11 is having a moment right now. Over the past few years the music production and engineering alumnus has produced every album by bre...
27/11/2019
Chi Gook Kim on Building a More Accessible World
Chi Gook Kim, associate professor and founder of Berklee's assistive music technology (AMT) program for blind and visually impaired students, was a recent g...
26/11/2019
Paula Coles Hard-Earned Advice for Dealing with Success
Success in the music industry-a hit single, a platinum album-is a goal for many musicians. But it can also pose serious challenges to maintaining mental and phy...
25/11/2019
Tool's Rhythm Section Locks in at Berklee
When Justin Chancellor was writing the bass riff for the Tool song Forty-Six and Two, from the iconic album, nema, he wasn't even a member of the band. H...
22/11/2019
Berklee Global Jazz Institute Celebrates 10th Anniversary, 100 Years of Charlie Parker
The Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI), founded by Grammy Award-winning pianis...
21/11/2019
Berklee and the Institute for Sound and Music Launch MASS MoCA Workshop
The Institute for Sound and Music (ISM) in Berlin, Germany, and Berklee College of Music will launch an immersive education workshop from Thursday, November 21,...
21/11/2019
MJ Rodriguez Finds Roles that Reflect Her True Identity
MJ Rodriguez 11 always wanted to be a star. Even as a high school student, the New Jersey native had a soulful, sublime voice. Coming to Berklee gave Rodriguez ...
21/11/2019
Berklee Alumni and Faculty Nominated for Grammy Awards
The nominees for the 62nd annual Grammy Awards were announced on Wednesday, November 20, and Berklee alumni and faculty will once again be a major presence at t...
18/11/2019
Toki Wright Named Chair of Berklees Professional Music Department
Toki Wright has been named chair of Berklee's Professional Music Department. As an acclaimed MC, producer, writer, radio host, arts diplomat, and community ...
15/11/2019
Four Berklee Guitarists Vie for Preeminent Jazz Prize
The Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition helped launch the careers of some of the genre's most acclaimed and enduring artists. Now, in its 31st ye...
15/11/2019
Berklee Announces First Gospel Summer Program
The Berklee Gospel Performance Program will be a five-day curriculum for gifted gospel vocalists and instrumentalists, bringing together the traditions and hist...
15/11/2019
Berklee Alumni Win Four Latin Grammys
Three Berklee alumni won gold-plated gramophones at the 20th annual Latin Grammy Awards, which took place November 14 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas...
14/11/2019
Natalia Lafourcade Encourages Students to Explore Their Own Worlds
When Natalia Lafourcade was six years old, she suffered a head injury after being kicked by a horse. I couldn't walk for a while, she told a packed house ...
12/11/2019
Berklee Silent Film Orchestra Performs Its Score to The Phantom of the Opera
The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra (BSFO) will perform its powerhouse score with the definitive, digital restoration of The Phantom of the Opera on Thursday, Dec...
12/11/2019
Berklees Signature Series Celebrates the Music of Queen
The Signature Series at Berklee presents Singers Showcase: A Night at the Opera The Music of Queen on Thursday, December 5, at the Berklee Performance Center at...
09/11/2019
Harry Gregson-Williams on Making and Remaking the Shrek Theme
Harry Gregson-Williams is an extremely busy man. The esteemed film composer has scored more than 100 films, plus acclaimed television shows and video games. But...
09/11/2019
Casa Limn New York Week Honors Flamenco Vocalist Carmen Linares
For the third year, Berklee's Mediterranean Music Institute (MMI) collaborated with Casa Lim n Records to put on Casa Lim n New York Week, a celebration of ...
08/11/2019
The Computer Listens to Georgia Anne Muldrow, and so Should You
Georgia Anne Muldrow grew up surrounded by music, but it wasn't until she discovered drum machines and MIDI keyboards that she figured out how to make music...
07/11/2019
Dont Ask Ron Carter to Play a Root Note
With 2,235 recordings to his name as a bassist (he set the world record in 2016 with 2,221), it's no surprise that Ron Carter drops so many legendary names ...
07/11/2019
Oh the Horror: Andy Grush '00 on Composing for Doctor Sleep
As a film composer, Andy Grush '00 doesn't find many opportunities to stretch out. Like many of his peers, Grush tends to pen a lot of pieces that can b...
06/11/2019
Berklee Celebrates BMI Day with Special Guests, Scholarship Presentation
Doreen Ringer-Ross, vice president of creative relations for film, TV and visual media at BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.), came to Berklee on Monday, November 4, to ...
05/11/2019
How Living Learning Communities Transform the College Experience
You'd never guess these students just met each other a couple weeks ago. In fact, the way they're talking about today's subject-perceptions of disab...
05/11/2019
Linda May Han Oh Joins Berklee's Bass Department
Bassist and composer Linda May Han Oh has joined Berklee College of Music's Bass Department as associate professor. The recipient of the 2018 and 2019 Bassi...
05/11/2019
Berklee Songwriter Punches Up Charlie's Angels Soundtrack
Ariana Grandes new Charlie's Angels soundtrack boasts an all-star multigenerational lineup of female vocalists, from Donna Summer and Chaka Khan 04H to Lana...
04/11/2019
Maleficent Composer: Every Note Points to the Story
Film composer Geoff Zanelli B.M. 96 has dozens of projects to his credit, most recently Disneys Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which stars Angelina Jolie. We ask...
04/11/2019
Berklee Students Original Compositions POP in Dominican Republic Funhouse
Berklee student Giulio De Renaldy relishes the challenges of music production: working with artists or organizations toward realizing a creative vision. He rece...
02/11/2019
Students Get Real World Experience at Peter Gabriels Studio
Each year since 2013, a group of 10 music production and engineering (MP&E) students have traveled to the United Kingdom for a nine-day whirlwind tour of some o...
01/11/2019
Kris Davis and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice Quartet to Perform at Dizzy's Club NYC
Kris Davis and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice Quartet will per...
31/10/2019
Internship Expo Shows Students Whats Possible
A Berklee education opens doors for any number of exciting career opportunities in the music industry. Many of those doors open first with internships. The thir...
