Berklee Performance Center Concerts

 

April 4 Rock Arranging Live - The best student arrangements of original
and cover songs in the pop/rock idiom drawn from the Rock Arranging courses will
be performed by specially selected student performers under the direction of faculty
member Mirek Kocandrle.

GUITAR WEEK

April 5 Bret’s Frets/The Berklee John Scofield Ensemble - Bret
Wilmott, Berklee guitar faculty member, leads his six-guitar student group through a
program of original contemporary jazz compositions. In the second half Assistant
Guitar Chair Rick Peckham leads a student group through the latest original
compositions from Berklee alumnus John Scofield, including several selections from
Scofield’s upcoming Blue Note release, I Can See Your House From Here.

April 6 The Back Bay Brass Jazz Orchestra/Chord Scale Madness - Jazz
Composition department faculty member Jackson Schultz showcases some of the
strongest arrangements written by students while taking the course, “Voicings
Derived from Chord Scales.” In various styles, all with a common jazz influence, the
music will be performed by an 11-piece ensemble. In the second half, faculty
trombonist/composer/arranger Ben Elkins presents the 19-piece Back Bay Brass Jazz
orchestra performing Swing, Latin and fusion compositions and arrangements by
Thad Jones and others.

April 7 Andy Timmons/John Petrucci - Ibanez Artist/Clinician Andy
timons, of Danger Danger presents a concert of electric music in a side range of
styles. ‘Then Ibhanez Artist/Clinican John Petrucci, of Dream Theater, presents a
concert of contemporary rock music with a surprse special guest. Tonights artists
appear sponsored in part by Ibanez.

April 8 Steve Morse - Steve Morse of the Dregs presents a program of
contemporary music.

April 9 Guitar Frenzy/The Jon Finn Band - Guitar deparment faculty
members Bruce Bartlett, Jim Kelly, Rick Peckham, and Bruce Saunders perform
contemporary instrumental music with faculty members Bruce Gertz, bass and Bob
Tamagni, drums. Then faculty guitarist Jon Finn, New England Performer
magazine's 1994 Performer of the Year, will play original rock with his group.

April 11 Percussion Ensemble/World Beat Pop Ensemble - The first half
of this Percussion Department concert features Percussion Unlimited in its 20th year
as the college’s premier percussion ensemble. Compositions by David McBride,
Ingred Marshall, Elliot Carter and Thom Hasenpflug will be performed and Assistant
Professor Richard Flanagan will offer a performance of Ellito Carter's March for Four
Timpani. In the second half the Berklee World Beat Percussion Orchestra, directed
by Steve Wilkes and Casey Scheuerell, and composed of students from World Beat
Pop Lab, will perform an eclectic blend of mind expanding, trance inducing dance
inspire grooves from West Africa, South Africa, the Middle East, Brazil and Cuba.

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