Berklee Performance Center Concerts

 

November 12 - Vocal Summit in Concert - Voice depart-
ment faculty member Bob Stoloff presents the a capella group
Vocal Summit in a program utilizing “spontaneous improvi-
sation” that creatively integrates music, theatre and move-
ment in musical styles from jazz to the classics.

November 13 - New Notes on the Staff - The Vocal Jazz
Ensemble, under the direction of faculty member Art

LaPierre, opens with jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Jerome
Kern and Johhny Mercer. Then new Voice Department faculty -
members Didi Stewart, Lisa Thorson and Donna McElroy

perform accompanied by a faculty rhythm section of Joe
Mullholland, piano, Dave Clark, bass and Bob Stoloff, drums.

November 14 - The Berklee Thelonious Monk En-
semble Post-Bop original compositions by Thelonious Monk
performed by this Berklee ensemble under the direction of
Assistant Chair of the Guitar Department, Rick Peckham.

November 19 - Gregg’nhemk Soundings - Under the
direction of Department Chair Jay Kennedy, compositions
and arrangements by the faculty of the Contemporary Writ-
ing and Production Department in a potpourri of styles will
be performed by a large band featuring Berklee faculty
members.

November 20 - The Berklee Concert Wind Ensemble -
Under the direction of Greg Fritze, the Berklee Concert Wind
Ensemble will perform a concert of contemporary composi-
tions for winds featuring “Five songs by Robert Frost” a
composition by Berklee Faculty Composer Michael Weinstein.
The ensemble will also perform United States Premieres of
two new compositions by Spanish Composers - “Estigia” by
Francisco Tamarit and “Tres Dances Valencianes” by Aman
Blanquer. Also performed will be “Rocky Point Holliday” by
Ron Nelson, Incandation and Dance by John Barnes Chance
and Bugler’s Holiday with faculty trumpet soloists Wayne
Naus, Dick Lowell and George Zonce.

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