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Berklee Performance Center Concerts

April 24 — Brazilian Music with Fernando Brandao Sextet - Ensemble
department faculty members showcase their performing, composition

and arranging skills as they direct their groups in an evening of contempo- .
rary jazz. Flutist Fernando Brandao presents original Brazilian music and
compositions by Egberto Gismonti, Maruicio Einhorn performed by his

septet including facutly bassist Oscar Stagnaro.

April 25- The Berklee Reverence Gospel Ensemble - An evening of
contemporary and traditional gospel music performed by Berklee’'s
Reverence Gospel Ensemble directed by faculty member Dennis Mont-
gomery lll. Berklee's small gospel ensemble, Overjoyed, will also per-
form.

April 26 — Winston Maccow/Hip Hop Ensemble- Ensemble department SF

faculty member Winston Maccow presents his student ensemble in
performance as part of Ensemble Week activities. Then the Berklee
student Hip-Hop ensemble performs under the direction of percussion
faculty Angelamia Bachemin.

April 30- Serenade to Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams — The Concert
Choir, under the direction of Voice department faculty member Anne

Peckham, will perform two major choral works: Mozart’s Laudate <% |

Dominum and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music. Featured soloists
include Yumiko Seshita, Katharine Heaton, Monica Yngvesson, Michelle
Ko, Claudia Giutierrez, Judy Jones, Chris Chatham, Joe Faulder, Vasco
Hexel, and Will Robertson. David Shrewsbury accompanies on piano.

May 1- The Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra - Under the direction of e

faculty composer/arranger/trumpeter Greg Hopkins, the Concert Jazz
Orchestra features the finest instrumentalists in the college playing
original music written expressly for the group by talented student and
faculty writers.

May 2- New Sounds for the Millennium - Under the direction of woodwind
department faculty member Peter Cokkinias, the Berklee Concert Wind
Ensemble will perform an eclectic program of works by the following
composers: Stravinsky, Holst, Reed, Weinstein, Dukas, and Brown. The
ensemble seeks out works which demonstrate a wide variety of styles
and combinations of players within the larger ensemble.

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