Berklee Performance Center Concerts

April 22 — Singers Showcase - Berklee's premiere vocal event offers a
variety of styles and musical settings for some of the college’s exceptional
singers. The featured student vocalists are Christy Bluhm, Natalie Stovall,
Jeremy Ragsdale, Stacy Baker, Rachel Loy, Andrew Douglass, Sarah
Johnson, and Evan Baughman. They will be performing the music of Natalie
Cole, Nelly Furtado, Linda Eder, Billy Joel, Christina Aguilera, The Dixie
Chicks, and others. The concert will also feature special guest Voice Fac-
ulty and Showcase Alumni Gwen Leathers.

April 26 — Hallelujah! Amen! An Evening of Gospel Music - An evening
of contemporary and traditional gospel music performed by Berklee's Rev-
erence Gospel Ensemble directed by faculty member Dennis Montgomery
Ill. Berklee’'s small gospel ensemble, Overjoyed, will also perform.

April 27 — Chord Scale/Urban Outreach Jazz Orchestra - Under the di-
rection 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 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. This year’s concert features several compositions by
student tenor saxophone player Johann Pyykko.

April 28 — The Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra - Faculty member Greg
Hopkins directs this big band in a program of contemporary jazz.

April 30 — Pat Metheny - Visiting Professor Pat Metheny is producing a
record for a Berklee student group. In the first half of the concert, he and
the group perform selections from the recording. The second half of the
show features Metheny with special guest Gary Burton.

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