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18/10/2019
Summit Brings Chinese Music Leaders to Berklee
On November 9-10, the third annual Berklee China-U.S. Music Summit will bring top Chinese music industry professionals together with students and faculty at Ber...
18/10/2019
Mexican Vocalist Aida Cuevas Meets Berklee on November 14
The Signature Series at Berklee will welcome Grammy Award-winning vocalist Aida Cuevas to the Berklee Performance Center, on Thursday, November 14, at 8:00 p.m....
18/10/2019
Berklee President Roger H. Brown Announces He Will Step Down in 2021
Roger H. Brown, who has served as Berklee's president since 2004, announced that he is stepping down from the position effective May 31, 2021. Under Brown&#...
18/10/2019
Melissa Aldana Fights Gender Discrimination with Discipline and Skill
Chilean saxophonist and Berklee alumna Melissa Aldana B.M. 09 dropped by Berklee this week as a guest at the Gathering, an event series presented by the Institu...
15/10/2019
From Tower Records to Captain Marvel
When Pinar Toprak B.M. '00 came to Berklee, she wasn't planning on a career in film scoring. The native of Istanbul started out as a piano performance m...
15/10/2019
Berklee India Exchange Presents Zakir Hussain
Berklee will present an honorary doctorate to world-renowned tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain at an historic concert celebrating his life and music on Friday, Novem...
15/10/2019
I Need It with Fire': A Day in the Studio with Joel Hamilton
Grammy-nominated producer and engineer Joel Hamilton, who visited Berklee this fall, communicates most effectively in extravagant metaphors: See if you can g...
15/10/2019
Three Berklee Alumni Win Spots on The Voice
The popular NBC series The Voice kicked off its 17th season this fall, and the initial blind audition rounds included three Berklee alumni: singer-songwriters M...
12/10/2019
Dessas Tips for Affordable, Sustainable Success
The rapper Dessa, who performs as part of the hip-hop collective Doomtree and has built a thriving solo career, stopped by Berklee recently to talk to students ...
12/10/2019
Soul of Her Own Machine: Merrill Garbus Reveals the Human Side of Looping
Using two basic loop stations and a few other basic effects pedals (including a pitch shifter and echo emulator), vocalist, songwriter, and composer Merrill Gar...
10/10/2019
Multiplatinum Artist Mary Lambert Chooses Balance over Superstardom
Singer-songwriter Mary Lambert first found the national spotlight in 2012 with the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis hit Same Love, which she cowrote and whose chorus s...
08/10/2019
Jazz Virtuosos on the Art of Self-Editing
Jazz is famous for being an improvisational genre-whether the musicians in the room are longtime collaborators or are meeting each other for the first time. But...
08/10/2019
Nick Isherwood Named the 23rd Jimmy Lyons Scholar to Berklee
Nick Isherwood, a jazz bassist from Medical Lake, Washington, has been named the 23rd recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship, a four-year, full-tuition award....
08/10/2019
Kanye Producer Talks Modern Definitions of Success
Che Pope knows a thing or two about the landscape of popular music in the last quarter decade. He was there in the 90s, recording to tape and making use of samp...
07/10/2019
Global Jazz Students Inhabit the Wonderful World of Garzone
Since 1996, Berklee students have performed on the stages of the Monterey Jazz Festival in the esteemed company of alumni performers such as Diana Krall B.M. 83...
07/10/2019
Inspired and Berklee Launch Exclusive Partnership
Inspired, a leading global network of 53 premium schools, has agreed to an exclusive partnership with Berklee to introduce an innovative curriculum and artists-...
05/10/2019
How Dogs Can Teach You to Sing Heavy Metal
If you happened to walk by Berk Recital Hall while heavy metal and rock vocalist David Benites was giving a vocal clinic, you might've wondered what the bar...
05/10/2019
Berklee's Encore Gala Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Berklee's Encore Gala celebrates its 25th anniversary on Saturday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m., at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, located at 110 Huntington ...
03/10/2019
Mary Lambert Visits Berklee for Mental Health Awareness Week
Berklee welcomes singer, songwriter, and poet Mary Lambert to its campus on Monday, October 7, for two special events taking place during Mental Health Awarenes...
27/09/2019
12 Berklee Alumni Nominated for Latin Grammy Awards
Twelve Berklee alumni have received Latin Grammy nominations for performing, songwriting, production, engineering, and mixing across a variety of categories ran...
27/09/2019
Jonathan Wyner Named President-Elect of Audio Engineering Society
Jonathan Wyner, an associate professor in Berklees Music Production and Engineering Department, has been appointed to the position of president-elect of the Aud...
27/09/2019
Five Dollars and the Truth: Mary Gauthier on Songwriting
Metaphors abound in songwriting, though they don't always venture into the realm of food. But singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier, a former restaurateur, invoke...
27/09/2019
Jonathan Perkins Named Assistant Chair of Berklees Songwriting Department
Jonathan Perkins, multiplatinum songwriter and producer, Emmy Award-winning composer, and Berklee graduate, has joined the colleges Songwriting Department as it...
26/09/2019
Neil Leonard Creates Immersive Sound Installation at Williams College
Neil Leonard, artistic director of the Interdisciplinary Arts Institute at Berklee, has been appointed the Arthur J. Levitt '52 Artist-in-Residence at Willi...
26/09/2019
George Garzone to Lead Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors at Cafe 939
Fresh off two performances together at the 2019 Monterey Jazz Festival, factulty saxophonist George Garzone will lead his sextet of international graduate stude...
26/09/2019
Ten Berklee Alumni Nominated for Latin Grammy Awards
Ten Berklee alumni have received Latin Grammy nominations for performing, songwriting, production, engineering, and mixing across a variety of categories rangin...
26/09/2019
Berklee Live at the Zoo
On Saturday, October 5, Berklees student-led program the Movement will perform for the animals at Franklin Park Zoo, located in Boston's historic Franklin P...
25/09/2019
Berklee Welcomes Dee Dee Bridgewater for Signature Series Concert
Global icon, jazz legend, and award-winning artist and producer Dee Dee Bridgewater will perform with various Berklee ensembles and musicians in the Signature S...
25/09/2019
Listen to a New Song from Women in Music Award Winner Naty Hernandez
Last fall, Naty Hernandez B.M. 19 was beginning her final year as a Berklee student and completing a songwriting major. She wouldnt have to wait until graduatin...
24/09/2019
Three Berklee Alumni Win Emmy Awards
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented three Berklee alumni with Emmy Awards in the week leading up to the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sund...
21/09/2019
BerkleeNYC Announces Fall Educational Programming
BerkleeNYC, Berklee's new center in New York City, will offer a variety of educational programs this fall at the Safehouse while major renovations take plac...
19/09/2019
Berklee and Spotify Announce 2019 EQL Residency Recipients
Last year, Spotify's social impact team and Berklee College of Music partnered to launch the EQL Studio Residency-a full-time, paid program that provides im...
17/09/2019
Nirvana Producer Steve Albini Recorded this Berklee Band's Raw New Track
When I arrived at Berklee's Studio 2 (also known as the Ark) one morning this spring, it was filled with music production and engineering students and facul...
17/09/2019
CJ Cultural Foundation Awards Six Scholarships to Berklee Students
This year, longtime Berklee partner the CJ Cultural Foundation awarded its first-ever Presidential Scholarship to entering piano student Jung Ah Eun of South Ko...
17/09/2019
Berklee and Halo Neuroscience Announce Collaboration To Accelerate Music Learning
Boston Conservatory at Berklee graduate Alyse Brown used Halo Sport to learn gui...
16/09/2019
What Is Contemporary Music?
You can find the phrase in the first line of Berklee's About page. It's our handshake: Hi, we're Berklee, a contemporary music and performing arts s...
06/09/2019
Heartbreak Is a Team Effort in The BreakUp
If you wanted to design a project to demonstrate what Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee can do when their forces combine, you couldn&#...
04/09/2019
Alumna Mara Pino Cohosts, Performs at Latino Festival at Fenway Park
Within weeks of graduation, Mar a Pino (Mar a Paula Gonzalez B.M. '19) was working with Latino Family Festival organizers to procure sponsorships and negoti...
04/09/2019
Terri Lyne Carrington Presents Album Release at Cafe 939
Drummer, producer, composer, and Berklee educator Terri Lyne Carrington will perform a concert celebrating her new album at the Red Room at Cafe 939 on Wednesda...
04/09/2019
Who Is Berklees Greatest Alum?
Who is Berklee's greatest alum? It's an age-old question, and, of course, an unanswerable one. There are just too many types of musicians and industry ...
29/08/2019
Daedelus Joins Berklee Electronic Production and Design Department
Daedelus, the boundary-pushing artist, DJ, and producer, will join Berklees Electronic Production and Design Department this fall as a founding faculty member o...
27/08/2019
How a Music Degree Helped These Grads Land a Gig at Netflix
When most people think of Netflix, music isn't what immediately comes to mind. The streaming giant has made its name from distributing, and more recently pr...
23/08/2019
Berklee Announces 2019-2020 Signature Series
The Signature Series at Berklee returns with performances by students, faculty, alumni, and world-renowned musicians. The 2019-2020 season includes concerts by ...
21/08/2019
Breathing through the Riffs
Breathe isn't always the first instruction given to guitar-playing students. But at a clinic during Berklee's Guitar Sessions summer program, Kim Perla...
19/08/2019
Indias Rising Stars Shine at Berklee Summer Program
Each summer, hundreds of students from all over the world come to Berklee for the annual Aspire: Five-Week Music Performance Intensive. This year's cohort i...
19/08/2019
Krystal Prime Banfield Named VP for Education Outreach and Social Entrepreneurship
Berklee has named Krystal Prime Banfield vice president for Educational Outreach...
19/08/2019
Leni Stern Finds a Universe of Rhythm
As part of Berklee's weeklong Guitar Sessions intensive, Leni Stern '80 gave a clinic and performance with pianist Leo Genovese and two other musicians....
17/08/2019
5 Essentials of Music Career Success
A successful career in music doesn't happen overnight. It takes patience, tenacity, an openness to critique, and even some failure to clarify your goals and...
16/08/2019
Berklee Online Increases Rates of Female Students, Staff, and Instructors
Berklee Online is paving the way for a new era in a music industry that has historically lacked female representation and leadership. Over the past decade, Berk...
16/08/2019
Forbes Names Berklee Top College for Alumni Success in Entertainment
Berklee was named no. 3 on a new Forbes list of the top 15 schools in the U.S. producing alumni who have achieved commercial success and critical acclaim in the...
