David Friend Recital Hall Concerts

March 21- The “Cryogenic Renassiance
Orchestra” - Faculty member Greg Hopkins
recalls three of the great jazz nonets of the
past century and stretches into the future of
the genre with probing and challenging new
works. Using Miles Davis's "Birth of the
Cool" , McCoy Tyner's “Tender Moments*"
and Herbie Hancock's "Prisoner" music as
models, Greg Hopkins Nonet pushes the
envelope of this instrumentation and devel-
ops a fresh viewpoint with an exciting new
repertoire.

March 22- Free Speech Zone The Mark Rossi
Group - Faculty composer and keyboardist
Marc Rossi presents original progressive jazz
with Latin and Indian influences and special
guest guitarist Bruce Arnold.

March 23- An Evening with Birdsongs of the
Mesozoic — Faculty member Michael Bierylo
presents original electro-acoustic chamber
rock for guitar, piano synthesizers and wood-
winds.

March 24- Neil Leonard & Friends — Faculty
member Neil Leonard presents jazz, electron-
ic and chamber music for his 8-piece ensem-
ble with special guests Benjamin Schwartz,
cello and Jessi Rosinski, flute.

March 28- Off We Go! - Vocalist/pianist
Rachel Solomon presents original pop/rock
compositions and arrangements for her quar-
tet with a string quartet as special guests.

March 29- Sonic Circuits Xll - The
International Electronic Music Festival at
Berklee College of Music is an annual show-
case that includes live performance with elec-
tronics, video art, new media art, sound art,
and works for electro-acoustic tape. This con-
cert features Berklee faculty members Neil

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Leonard, Michael Bierylo, Stephen Webber,
Apostolos Paraskevas, students and special
guest Michael Norsworthy.

March 30 - Berklee Afro-Pop Ensemble —
Under the direction of Percussion
Department faculty member Mohamed
Camara the Afro-Pop ensemble performs as
part of Percussion Week.

March 31 - Enestico “T Su Charanga” -
Percussion Department faculty member
Ernesto Diaz performs as part of Percussion
Week.

April 1- The Singer Showcase —

Percussionist/marimba player Jonathan Singer

presents contemporary and classical music by

John Cage, Steve Reich, and J.S. Bach as well

as Indian Classical drumming for tabla, mri-

dangan and other percussion. y

April 4- Composition Department Student
Awards Concert- The concert will feature
pieces by student composers Akinobu Sato,
Chandra Cogburn and Lucas Vidal for small
chamber ensembles.

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