Berklee Performance Center Concerts

April 6- Writing Division Awards- The
Professional Writing Division presents it annu-
al Awards Concert featuring award-winning
writers from the division.

April 8- Yellowjackets Songbook - The
Yellowjackets Songbook

Russell Ferrante and Marcus Baylor of the
Yellowjackets will lead a group of students in
performance of the Yellowjackets vocal song-
book.

April 10 - The Great American Songbook:
The Music of Cole Porter - The songs of Cole
Porter are performed by Berklee faculty in
the lush, swinging style of pop's golden age.
Featured vocalists will be faculty members
Donna McElroy and Maggie Scott, and stu-
dent Jeremy Ragsdale. Arrangements by fac-
ulty members Richard Evans, Ken Zambello,
Joe Smith, Jay Kennedy, and Jeff Friedman.
Featured instrumentalists include Larry
Monroe, Ken Cervenka, Jackie Beard, Greg
Badolato and a host of other Berklee faculty
administrators and students.

April 11- A Berklee Jazz Festival - This con-
cert will showcase many of the College’s top
talents-instrumentalists as well as
composer/arrangers--as the Rainbow Band
performs jazz for large ensemble with special
guest vocalist Jeremy Ragsdale under the
direction of faculty trombonist, composer,
arranger Phil Wilson.

April 12 — Guitar Student Showcase Concert-
Jazz & Blues - Under the direction of faculty
members Garrison Fewell and Curt Shumate,
student led groups perform in jazz and blues
styles. This years concert will include groups
led by Federico Casagrande, Allen Hulsey,
Marco Buenaventura, Eric French, David
Jimenz and Hokei Kamuro.

April 13-Thaddeus Hogarth

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April 14 - Guitar Student Showcase Concert- L
Rock & Pop - Under the direction of faculty g
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April 15- Rick Peckham Group- Assistant

Chair-of the Guitar Department Rick

Peckham leads a group with Bruno Raberg,

bass and Nick Falk, drums, performing his B¢
original compositions, including selections

from his critically acclaimed release Left End.

April 21- Singers Showcase- Berklee's pre- = of
miere vocal event offers a variety of styles p
and musical settings for some of the college’s .
exceptional singers. The Spring 2005 Singer's

Showcase will feature the talents of lead VA o)
vocalists Kamaria Oulsley, Jeremy Ragsdale,

Tiwa Savage, Dawn Royston, Major" 3
Choirboy" Johnson, Ryan Pinkston, Jessica

Wolfe, Natalie Fernandez, and Nadine Ford. -
They will be performing the music of

Destiny's Child, Joni Mitchell, The Jackson

Five, Sarah Brightman, Anikta Baker, Shakira,

and many others.

April 25- Gospel Ensemble-Dennis Berklee
Reverence Gospel Ensemble

An evening of contemporary and traditional
gospel music performed by Berklee's
Reverence Gospel Ensemble directed by fac-
ulty member Dennis Montgomery lll.
Berklee's small gospel ensemble, Overjoyed, Sy,
will also perform.

April 26- The Berklee Contemporary Wind

Ensemble Rhapsody in Bloom -the

Contemporary Wind Orchestra focuses on

contemporary compositions by faculty and

students in compendium with pivotal twenti-

eth century works. The CWO presents a lush

orchestral sound to compliment and bring to

life the fine works of Leos Janacek, Leonard

Bernstein, Percy Grainger and George

Gershwin. World premier performances of -