David Friend Recital Hall Concerts

April 24 - [1:00pm] - Advanced Small Band
Ensemble - Post Bop and contemporary

jazz compositions by John Coltrane, Dave
Liebman, Mike Brecker and Freddie Hubbard
will be performed by this six piece ensemble
directed by Ed Tomassi.

April 24 —[2:30pm]| - 21st century Grooves
— David Fiuczynski leads this ensemble
performing originals and unique modern
groove arrangement of covers with intense
improvisational interplay.

April 24 — [4:00pm| —Caribbean Ensemble

- Faculty member Winston Maccow presents
his student ensemble performing music from
the Caribbean Islands.

April 24 — |7:30pm| — Clarinet Choir — Un-
der the direction of Peter Cokkinias, this
ensemble performs traditional and contempo-
rary music for clarinet.

April 25 — [1:00pm| — Reggae/Dub Ensemble
- Faculty member Winston Maccow presents
his student ensemble performing reggae and
dub music.

April 25 —|2:30pm| — Brazilian Jazz

— Faculty member Fernando Brandao leads
this student ensemble performing jazz from
Brazil including compositions by Caetano
Veloso. Milton Nascimento and Brandao.

April 25 — [4:00 pm] - Mostly Mahavishnu
- Mostly Mahavishnu focuses on the early
70s with modern groove updates.

April 25 —[7:30pm| — Turn It Up! The Berk-
lee Country Music Ensemble - The Berklee
Country Music Ensemble under the direction
of faculty guitarist Mike Ihde, performs top
country hits as well as instrumentals in clas-
sic country, western swing, and rockabilly
styles. An exciting and entertaining evening
of Hot Country and Blazing Instrumentals
performed by Berklee's best Pickers and
Singers with 2 fiddles, lap steel, dobro, three
guitars, bass. drums and seven vocalists.

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April 26 —[1:00pm| — Mimi Rabson - Faculty
member Mimi Rabson presents a program
improvisational music for strings only.

April 26 — [2:30pm| — Music of Dave
Holland Ensemble - Faculty member Lello
Molinari presents Berklee’s Dave Holland
ensemble performing music from the bassists
recordings.

April 26 — [4:00pm| — Advanced Small Band
Ensemble - A 7-piece ensemble performs
straight ahead jazz compositions under the di-
rection of faculty member Herman Hampton.

April 26 — [7:30 pm| Songwriter’s Circle
2006 - The Songwriting Department proudly
presents another in the annual Songwriter’s
Circle Series featuring four outstanding
singer-songwriters performing solo and duo
versions of their songs. This is an acoustic
writers showcase which features ‘the song’
rather than “the arrangement.” This year’s
showcase will feature Megan Burtt, Lucas
Carpenter, James Farrell and Gabrielle Sadler
performing three songs each in an acoustic
setting featuring voices and guitar or piano.

April 27 — [1:00pm| — Music of the Crusad-
ers - Faculty saxophonist Dan Moretti leads
this student ensemble through the best of

the soul/funk jazz pioneers, The Crusaders
with compositions and arrangements by Joe
Sample, Wayne Henderson, and Stix Hooper.

April 27 —[2:30pm| — Gospel: Traditional
and Spirituals - Faculty member Dennis
Montgomery presents small vocal ensembles
performing traditional and spiritual Gospel
Music.

April 27 — [4:00pm| — Jazz Composition
Ensemble - The Jazz Composition Ensemble-
-a ten piece band with alto, tenor, baritone
saxes. trumpets, trombone, guitar, piano,
bass and drums-- performs original student
compositions under the direction of Jazz
Composition department chair Ken Pullig.