Berklee Performance Center Concerts

 

October 28 - Fall Together - Faculty composers Greg Hopkins, Ted Pease, Bob
Pilkington, Ken Pullig, Marc Rossi, Bruce Thomas, and Phil Wilson will be
featured in this year's Jazz Compostion Department traditional fall concert, “Fall
Together.” A wide variety of styles and approaches to the art of jazz composition
are included. The music will be performed by a jazz orchestra of faculty players
from across the college with special guest Brad Terry, jazz whistler.

November 2 - WindsDay Concert - Al Vizzutti/Gary Campbell

November 3 - Adios Berklee - Student Pan flute player Damian Draghici plays
traditional, jazz and classical music featuring special guests faculty members
George Garzone, saxophone and Jamey Haddad, drums.

November 5 - C.W. P. P.O.V. - The Contemporary Writing and Production
Department faculty showcase their compositions and arrangements in a veritable
potpourri of musical styles including mambo pop, Latin jazz-rock, bossa fusion,
Count Basie style jazz, funk, Calypso, samba Cancao, dramatic film score-ish
ballad, and world beat gospel. The performers featured include many of
Berklee’s renowned faculty. CWP Professor Bob Doezema and Department Chair
Jay Kennedy direct.

November 12 - West African Drum and Dance - The Berklee West African
Drum & Dance classes, under the direction of Joe Galeota, present traditional,
cultural and popular styles of West African music and dance. Then Ghanaian
singer Vida Galeota will sing two cultural songs and Voice department faculty
member Gabriel Goodman will perform “He Lives In You,” from the Disney
musical, The Lion King. Special guest facutly percussionist Mohamed Kalifa
Camara will perform music from Guinea and Mali.

November 16 - Tribute to John Corley with the Concert Wind Ensemble -
This year’s concert is entitled “Tribute to John Corley” John Corley has been the
conductor of the MIT Concert Band for Fifty-one years. He will retire after this
season. He has been a champion of contemporary music and has performed
hundreds of new compositions including over sixty works by Berklee students
and faculty. He also has been on the advisory board of Berklee College of Music
for many years. A presentation will be made as well as John guest conducting
“The J.D.C. March” which was composed in his honor by Berklee Composition
Professor John Bavicchi.

Also featured this evening will be this year’s concerto winner Ivana Lisak
performing the “Concerto for Piano and Winds” by Igor Stravinsky, this year’s
winner of the Wind Ensemble Composition Contest “Two Places in Paris” by
Gerardo Perez and the American Premiere of “Sinfonia de Valencia” by Berklee
Wind Ensemble Conductor Gregory Fritze.

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