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03/07/2020
Berklee Faculty Elected to Grammy Board of Trustees
The Recording Academys national board of trustees now includes two Berklee faculty members and a Berklee Online student. Terri Lyne Carrington, founder and ar...
02/07/2020
Songs for Social Change Contest Winners Announced
Berklees Songwriting Department and Songs for Social Change initiative have announced the results of their 2020 Songs for Social Change Contest. This years cont...
02/07/2020
Scarlet Keys Redefines Homework in Her Remote Songwriting Courses
When Scarlet Keys, associate professor in the Songwriting Department, shifted to a fully remote environment in the spring, when the coronavirus (COVID-19) pande...
01/07/2020
Unsure About Fall Plans? Consider Studying in Spain.
On June 15, Berklee announced that it was offering students two options for the fall semester. They could come to campus and take part in a mixed in-person and ...
25/06/2020
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Women have been part of jazz from its beginning. It's a rich but complicated story framed by limited opportunity mixed with unwritten rules, sexism, and ben...
25/06/2020
They Keep Saying: Keira Smiths Powerful Take on Jill Scotts Watching Me
At the end of Keira Smith's cover of Jill Scott's Watching Me, the Atlanta-based singer throws up a fist in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter mov...
25/06/2020
Alumna Kirbys Viral Video Helped Bring Down Aunt Jemima Brand
In the wake of recent protests, there's been a call to eradicate symbols of slavery, from the town square to the pantry. As statues of Confederate soldiers ...
25/06/2020
Meet Five City Music Scholars Attending Five-Week This Summer
This year, Berklee awarded City Music Summer Scholarships to 59 outstanding young musicians from the United States and Canada. These students, who must be nomin...
23/06/2020
Berklee Offers First Online Five-Week Program
This July, Berklee will launch its first-ever virtual five-week program in partnership with Berklee Online-the largest provider of accredited online music educa...
19/06/2020
Alec Schulman Receives BMI Future Jazz Masters Scholarship
The BMI Foundation has named Alec Schulman, a fifth-semester student at Berklee College of Music, as the winner of this years BMI Future Jazz Master Scholarship...
18/06/2020
Going Back to Berklee: Plans Announced for Fall 2020
This past January, few in higher education could have predicted the kind of 180-degree turn that the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic would bring to colleges and...
10/06/2020
Julio Iglesias Scholarship Awarded to Mar Gimnez Marn
The Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation has named piano and voice student Mar Gim nez Mar n as winner of its 2020 Prodigy Scholarship. The four-year scholarship-co...
29/05/2020
Berklee Alumni and Faculty Honored by the Jazz Journalists Association
The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) recognized 11 Berklee alumni and faculty members with JJA Jazz Awards in a number of categories this year. Berklee'...
26/05/2020
Berklee and Women in Music Win Innovation Award for 2019 Report
Berklee and Women in Music (WIM) received an award for their report, Women in the U.S. Music Industry: Obstacles and Opportunities, at SIM S o Paulo in Brazi...
14/05/2020
Hope and Joy in Isolation: Theater in the Time of COVID-19
Live theater often depends on interaction: between the actors and their crew and director, between different actors on stage, and between the actors and the aud...
14/05/2020
The Berklee Really Eclectic Orchestra Records an All-Strings Rendition of Miserlou from Home
The Berklee Really Eclectic Orchestra (BREO), a high school ensemble for string ...
14/05/2020
Berklee Students Honored at 43rd Annual DownBeat Student Music Awards
DownBeat magazine recognized 14 Berklee College of Music students with 15 DownBeat Student Music Awards across a wide variety of categories, including Jazz Arra...
14/05/2020
Creating a Vibrant Campus Life Experience Online
In a typical semester, Berklee's Center for Campus Life sponsors dozens of on-site events, as well as giving student clubs space, support, and funding to ru...
09/05/2020
Berklee Celebrates Class of 2020 as Commencement Goes Virtual
In two virtual commencement celebrations earlier today, Berklee President Roger H. Brown presented honorary doctorates to music icons Sheila E., John Legend, an...
06/05/2020
New Berklee India Exchange Music Video Supports Musicians Affected by COVID-19
The Berklee India Exchange (BIX) has released a new music video to support ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) relief work in India. The video features a new version...
02/05/2020
From Tabla to Tech: Nitish Kulkarni
Though his musical career began with tabla playing, Nitish Kulkarni M.M. '16 has expanded his skill set to keyboards, arranging, production, and engineering...
29/04/2020
Amid Coronavirus Challenges, Courtney Powers Finds New Ways to Inspire Students
Thirteen years after graduating from Berklee, Courtney Powers B.M. '07 is exactly where she wants to be: teaching music to young people. Now, during the cor...
29/04/2020
BGJI Celebrates International Jazz Day with the Wayne Shorter Quartet Reunion
The Berklee Global Jazz Institute and its founder and artistic director, Grammy Award-winning jazz artist Danilo P rez, have orchestrated a a virtual reunion of...
27/04/2020
Berklee Student, Faculty Member to be Featured in HBO Documentary
Berklee College of Music student Adam Walden will be one of five featured subjects in the HBO documentary Autism: The Sequel, premiering on Tuesday, April 28. I...
23/04/2020
Using Quarantine to Elevate Your Art
Over the past several weeks, as Zoom ensembles have proliferated and musicians have come up with digital solutions for band practice, many artists have found cr...
22/04/2020
Boston Conservatorys Shelbie Rassler Returns to Virtual Performance with Fight Song'
Boston Conservatory at Berklee composition student Shelbie Rassler convened a vi...
21/04/2020
Berklee Student Sam Zilli Named Truman Scholar
Sam Zilli, a Berklee College of Music student, was named a 2020 Truman Scholar by former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, president of the Harry S. Tru...
21/04/2020
When Mom Has Midterms
In many ways, Bonny Baez's day is not much different from that of thousands of college students: He works a part-time job, does several hours of school work...
16/04/2020
Your Guide to Berklee Online's Most Popular Courses
As the longer-term reality of social distancing sets in, many have begun to look for new opportunities to use their homebound time well. Some are brushing up on...
13/04/2020
Berklee Professor Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Marti Epstein, a composition professor at Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee, has been named one of 175 recipients of the 2020 Guggenhe...
09/04/2020
Music Therapy Alumni Bring Joy to Clients via Telehealth
As the U.S. continues to navigate the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, music therapists, like other mental health professionals, are adapting to new rhythms. Th...
08/04/2020
Its 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...
07/04/2020
Berklee Popular Music Institute Launches Berklee at Home Concert Series
Students in the Berklee Popular Music Institute (BPMI) usually spend their spring semester gearing up for festival season: they find, develop, book, and promote...
07/04/2020
Students Go Virtual for Berklee Anywhere Concert Series
While the majority of concerts and events around the globe have been canceled, students at Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee continue ...
07/04/2020
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Andr De Shields, Sheila E., John Legend, Cassandra Wilson to Receive Honorary Doctorates
Five of the most influential artists in the performing arts will receive honorar...
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...
