Berklee Performance Center Concerts April 4 - Commercial Arranging Majors Concert - The second annual concert featuring the writing of majors in Commercial Arranging. The contemporary pop/ rock fusion and Latin selections also feature performances by many of Berklee’s talented student performers. April 5 - Ueberseebrief, Lieder zur Liebe/Lunatique Fringe Orchestra - Gabriela Tanner offers a program of original Art-songs based on German and Swiss texts performed with piano, violin, bass and clarinet. Then composer/arranger Luna Uehara presents original compositions for jazz orchestra. April 9 - Songwriters Night - The twelve winners of the annual Songwriting Contest will have their songs performed under the direction of department chair Jack Perricone and faculty member John Stevens. The music offered ranges over a wide variety of styles from pop/reggae through alternative rock performed in original arrangements by the songwriters and student ensembles. April 11 International Folk Festival - This special event, sponsored by the Performance Studies Department, the Office of the Dean of Students and the Student Activities Center, will feature ten ensembles representing Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Greece, Cypress Brazil, Israel, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain and a fiddle ensemble playing the music of their native homelands. Following the performance, everyone is invited to a party in the Dining Hall where food from around the world can be sampled. April 16 - The Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra - Under the direction of faculty composer/arranger/trumpeter Greg Hopkins, this large ensemble will perform contemporary big band jazz. April 17 - Guitar Week-Jon Finn/Mike Keneally April 18 - Guitar Week-John Scofield/Guitar Frenzy April 19 - Guitar Week-John Wilkins/Mike Williams April 20 - Guitar Week-Guitar Night > April 22 - Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein - The Berklee Concert Choir, under the direction of Voice faculty Anne Peckham, will perform Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein, commissioned by the Cathedral of Chichester in Sussex England for their 1965 Music Festival. This performacne will feature organ, harp and percussion accompaniment and the choir will sing in Hebrew with a solo quartet and boy alto. The Performance Center at Berklee College of Music is a Ticketmaster outlet.