Berklee Performance Center Concerts

December 3 - Presidential Inauguration
Concert - Concert marking the Inauguration
of Roger Brown as President of Berklee
College of Music, with honorary degree
recipients Dennis Chambers and Chaka
Khan.

December 9 - Singers’ Showcase - Berklee's
best student vocalists sing, whisper, belt,
shout, croon, wail, rap, swing, scat, and
holler in a program of pop, r&b, jazz and folk
music. This semester's singer's are Jeremy
Ragsdale, Evan Baughman, Natalie
Fernandez, Melinda Colaizzi, Georgel
Arevalo, J.C. Casely, Dave Petrelli, and Maeve
Gilchrist. They will be performing the music
of Aretha Franklin, Usher, Christina Aguilera,
Andrew Lloyd Weber, Janis Joplin, and many
others.

December 13 - Berklee String Orchestra with
Joe Lovano - The Berklee String Orchestra
conducted by Eugene Friesen presents Joe
Lovano playing music by Eddie Sauter, Kenny
Wheeler and Matthew Nicholl. Student
soloists will also be featured in a variety of
styles showcasing the rhythmic capabilities of
strings. The concert will include works by
Frank Bridge and Darol Anger.

December 14 -Back Bay Brass Jazz Orchestra
- Ben Elkins leads this 20-piece student big
band in a program of contemporary arrange-
ments and compositions for big band by Phil
Potts, Thad Jones, Maria Schneider, Stand
Kenton and Bill Holman with special guest
vocalist and trombonist.

Berklee College 1140 Boylston Street
of Music Boston, MA 02215-3693

www.berklee.edu

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