Berklee Performance Center Concerts

March 8- Piano Department Faculty Concert featuring Laszlo Gardony
Trio - Faculty members Laszlo Gardony, piano, Jamey Haddad, drums,
percussion and John Lockwood, bass will play selections from Mr.
Gardony’s new recxording Behind Open Doors as well as other originals
and standards.

March 12- The Journey/Fenway Brass Art Orchestra— Daniela Schachter
presents modern jazz and fusion originals for her 10- piece band and
quintet, conducted by Professor Phil Wilson. Then Susumu Watanabe
presents his 20 piece jazz big band performing straight ahead jazz in
original arrangements.

March 14- Contemporary Writing Production - The Contemporary Writing
and Production Department presents the 7th annual concert featuring the
writing of Majors in Contemporary Writing and Production. A variety of
pop/rock, fusion, jazz, and Latin compositions and arrangements written
and conducted by CWP Majors will be performed by many of Berklee's
talented student instrumentalists and vocalists.

March 15 Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble - The Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble,
under the direction of faculty vocalist Robin Ginenthal, performs twentieth
century works inspired by folk music from around the word including Berio
and Ravel’s “Folk Songs” Granados “Tonadillas” and Carter’s “Pastoral.”
The ensemble includes the following musicians: Robin Ginenthal soprano,
David Callahan conductor, Lisa De Siro piano, Masami Tomihasa piano,
Takumi Ozawa violin, Tokuhiro Doi clarinet, Kenji Kikuchi flute, Irina
Chirkova cello, David Schreiber viola, Emily Halpern Lewis harp, Vessela
Stoyanova percussion, Assen Stoyanov percussion and Weiley Lee piano.

March 26- Amel Larrieux - Drawing on a wealth of influences from hip-
hop, gospel and funky R&B, and with flashes of Middle Eastern, West
African and Indian ethnic styles, Amel Larrieux has recently released a
solo debut album titled Infinite Possibilities. Amel Larrieux was lead siren
and co-writer for the New York based duo Groove Theory. A collaborative
effort with ex-Mantronix member Bryce Wilson, Groove Theory ‘s debut
album for Epic eventually went gold on the heels of the smash single Tell
Me which broke the Top Ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Top Five
-on the R&B charts before being certified gold in October 1995. Amel’s
voice and writing also atracted the attention of former Sade guitarist and
programmer Stuart Matthewman, who recruited her for two tracks on his
group Sweetback’s Epic album in 1995.

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