Berklee Performance Center Concerts

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April 29 - Chord Scale Madness/Lin Biviano Big Band
Jazz Ensemble- Under the direction of Jazz Composition
department faculty member Jackson Schultz, some of the
strongest student arrangements from the “Voicings Derived
from Chord Scales” course will be performed by a large en-
semble. Then Ensemble department faculty member Lin
Biviano presents big band jazz in the style of the Maynard
Ferguson Band with arrangements and compositions of Don
Sebesky, Slide Hampton Willie Maiden, Ernie Wilkins and
Biviano.

April 30 - Le Hot Club de Berklee - Under the direction of
faculty composer/arranger/trombonist Phil Wilson, jazz fusion
originals will be performed by one of Berklee’s premiere en-
sembles.

May 1 - Shout!-The Reverence Gospel Ensemble & Over-
joyed- An evening of contemporary and traditional gospel
music performed by Berklee’s Reverence Gospel Ensemble will
feature compositions by Donald Lawrence, Johnathan Hall,
Jules Bartholomew, David Frazier and ensemble director
faculty member Dennis Montgomery III. Berklee’s new small
gospel ensemble, Overjoyed, will also perform.

May 2 - Viento De Sal /Johnny Richard’s Cuban Fire -
Student Composer /arranger Pedro Barboza presents original
contemporary Venezuelan music for large ensemble. Then The
Back Bay Brass Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of faculty
member Ben Elkins, presents Cuban Fire, a seven movement
suite for jazz orchestra composed and arranged by Johnny
Richards and originally recorded by the Stan Kenton Orches-
tra.

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