Berklee Performance Center Concerts

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 faculty composer/arranger/trumpeter Greg Hopkins, the Con-
cert 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 demon-
strate a wide variety of styles and combinations of players within
the larger ensemble.

May 3- Chord Scale Madness/Urban Outreach Jazz Orchestra -
Under the direction of Jazz Composition department faculty mem-
ber Jackson Schultz, some of the strongest student arrangements
from the “Voicings Derived from Chord Scales” course will be
performed by a large ensemble. Then Ensemble department
faculty member Lin Biviano presents big band jazz in the style of
the Count Basie, Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson and Buddy
Rich Bands.

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