Quincy Jones, and when the first Singers’
Showcase was held the following fall.
That was also the year Rose became
Chair of the Performance Studies
Department, which led to an even deeper

involvement with the Performance Center.

“Larry Berk had brought me to the BPC

in 1973, when it was a shambles,” Rose
notes, “and told me that all of the school’s
concerts would be done there. The
recording studios were being built at

the same time, so | was working and
teaching in both facilities from their
inception. When | became the Berklee
Performance Studies chair, we had
dozens of classes performing all kinds

of music. Since | was the major user of the
BPC, it made sense in the early '90s that |
would manage the college’s

concert spaces.”

With the invaluable assistance of
members of his Yo Team (faculty
producers) this new charge allowed Rose,
in his words, to “bring a lot of stuff above
ground where the interest already existed
‘underground’ among the students,”
including the inaugural Singers'’
Showcase, the first concert of country mu-
sic, and other concerts such as the annual
International Folk Music Festival. At the

same time, Rose retained his other
responsibilities, which only increased

as he was promoted to assistant vice
president for Special Programs in

1993 and Vice President for Special
Programs in 2012. These include the
Berklee High School Jazz Festival, which
Rose began to produce in the late 1980s
after years as an adjudicator, and the
Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival, which he
has produced alongside Artistic Director
Terri Lyne Carrington.

Rose is particularly proud of the Five-
Week Summer Performance Program,
which draws students from all over the
world. “Lee Berk asked me to take it over
in 1986, and with great educators and
leaders like Bob Doezema, Dave Weigert,
and John LaPorta, we designed a
program for high school kids like the kind
we would've liked to have when we were
in high school. I'm proud that 30 percent
of Berklee's entering classes have
participated in one of the college’s 20-
plus summer programs, and that Meghan
Trainor, Charlie Puth, John Mayer, and
many other successful musicians have also
attended. These programs have become
an entry point for faculty, and a place to
pilot new curricula.”