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2018 SIGNATURE SERIES at Berklee
Berklee's Signature Series brings world-renowned, award-winning artists from a diverse array of genres to work
with Berklee students in a professional performing arts setting. Guest artists reside on campus for multiple days,
offering clinics, visiting classrooms, and rehearsing with students.
Student participants, chosen by the faculty member producing the show, take the stage to perform-most
often, at the Berklee Performance Center—on the artist's last day of residency to share what they have learned
and to share their respect for the artist’s body of work with general audiences.
Past artists have included Joyce Moreno, Jorge Drexler, Wang Leehom, A. R. Rahman, Israel “Cachao” Lépez,
Tigran Hamasyan, and Rosa Passos.
Berklee Middle Eastern Festival: Celebrating 10 Years
Thursday, March 1, 2018, 8:00 p.m.
The acclaimed Berklee Middle Eastern Festival, founded by Associate Professor Christiane
Karam as a platform for multicultural exchange, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a stellar lineup
of guest artists from around the globe, including the Vadim Neselovskyi Trio, Tigran Himasyan, the
Pletenitsa Balkan Choir, Women of the World, and Berklee World Strings, directed by Grammy-
winning professor Eugene Friesen.
3 Kurt Elling Meets Berklee
$ - Thursday, March 8, 2018, 8:00 p.m.
The natural heir to jazz pioneers Eddie Jefferson, King Pleasure, and Jon Hendricks, international
/ jazz award winner Kurt Elling is a renowned artist of vocalese~the writing and performing of
“ l 7y words over recorded, improvised jazz solos.
Berklee's Signature Series brings world-renowned, award-winning artists from a diverse array of genres to work
with Berklee students in a professional performing arts setting. Guest artists reside on campus for multiple days,
offering clinics, visiting classrooms, and rehearsing with students.
Student participants, chosen by the faculty member producing the show, take the stage to perform-most
often, at the Berklee Performance Center—on the artist's last day of residency to share what they have learned
and to share their respect for the artist’s body of work with general audiences.
Past artists have included Joyce Moreno, Jorge Drexler, Wang Leehom, A. R. Rahman, Israel “Cachao” Lépez,
Tigran Hamasyan, and Rosa Passos.
Berklee Middle Eastern Festival: Celebrating 10 Years
Thursday, March 1, 2018, 8:00 p.m.
The acclaimed Berklee Middle Eastern Festival, founded by Associate Professor Christiane
Karam as a platform for multicultural exchange, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a stellar lineup
of guest artists from around the globe, including the Vadim Neselovskyi Trio, Tigran Himasyan, the
Pletenitsa Balkan Choir, Women of the World, and Berklee World Strings, directed by Grammy-
winning professor Eugene Friesen.
3 Kurt Elling Meets Berklee
$ - Thursday, March 8, 2018, 8:00 p.m.
The natural heir to jazz pioneers Eddie Jefferson, King Pleasure, and Jon Hendricks, international
/ jazz award winner Kurt Elling is a renowned artist of vocalese~the writing and performing of
“ l 7y words over recorded, improvised jazz solos.
