2019 Berklee Signature Series

Berklee American Roots Music Program 10th Anniversary
Tuesday, March 12,2019 at 7:30 p.m.
Berklee Performance Center

Celebrating the first 10 years of the Berklee American Roots Music Program, this
extraordinary concert welcomes back some of the amazing musicians who passed
through Berklee during the program’s first decade, as well as some of the incredible bands that got
their start here. Come hear Sierra Hull'11 and Molly Tuttle B.M. 14, the Lonely Heartstring Band, Mile
Twelve, Twisted Pine, Molsky's Mountain Drifters, Jenna & Mairi (Jenna Moynihan B.M. "13 and Mairi
Chaimbeul B.M. '16), and the Goodbye Girls, as well as Donna McElroy and the Jubilee Spirit Ensemble,
Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, Darol Anger, Kevin Barry, and others. The concert is produced by Matt Glaser,
artistic director of the Berklee American Roots Music Program.

  

Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy
Friday, April 5,2019 at 8:00 p.m.
Boston Symphony Hall

Grammy-winning conductor Arnie Roth leads the Berklee Contemporary Symphony
= Orchestra (Julius P. Williams, artistic director) through a captivating and specially
concelved program of Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy for the show's triumphant return to
Boston's celebrated Symphony Hall. Launched in 2007, in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of
Final Fantasy, this concert tour features the music of video game composers Nobuo Uematsu and Yoko
Shimomura, as well as vocalist Susan Calloway as a guest soloist. This multimedia experience shows
stirring screen images—direct from game developer Square Enix-that reflect the soaring emotions of
a symphony orchestra and chorus performing music selected from the entire Final Fantasy catalogue.

CareerJam 2019

Sylvia Rhone Tribute Concert

“ Friday, April 5,2019 at 7:30 p.m.
Berklee Performance Center
f Berklee's Career Jam culminates in a concert celebrating Sylvia Rhone, "godmother
N of the music industry,” and many of the genre-spanning, world-renowned artists she
has launched and worked with throughout her career. Led by musical director Rob Lewis '94 (Christina

Aguilera, New Kids on the Block, Toni Braxton), the concert will feature Berklee students performing the
music of Missy Elliott, J.J. Fad, Tracy Chapman, Lil Wayne, and Camila Cabello.