David Friend Recital Hall Concerts

September 27 - Composition Department
Faculty Concert — Contemporary classi-
cal music for solo instruments, chamber
ensembles and voice, featuring Berklee
faculty performers and various guests,
including Sherman Friedland, clarinet.

October 1 — Doug Johnson Trio — Doug
Johnson presents his jazz trio, featuring
new compositions.

October 2 - Carlo Aonzo and the New
England Mandolin Ensemble - Carlo
Aonzo is the winner of prestigious man-
dolin competitions on both sides of the
Atlantic, including the “Vivaldi” prize
of the sixth annual Vittorio Pitzianti Na-
tional Mandolin Competition in Venice
as well as the 27th annual Walnut Valley
National Mandolin Contest in Winfield,
Kansas. Aonzo will perform with the
New England Mandolin Ensemble,
founded by Berklee faculty member
August Watters. NEME features some
of New England’s best mandolinists,
including classical mandolin icon Mari-
lynn Mair (Roger Williams University),
multistylist virtuoso Jim Dalton (Boston
Conservatory), and mandocello specialist
Mitch Nelin.

October 3 — Richard Danielpour - Visit-
ing artist and Grammy-winning com-
poser Richard Danielpour discusses his
opera Margaret Garner and music as a
humanitarian force. A concert of arias
from Margaret Garner will be performed
by Gabrielle Goodman, mezzo-soprano;
Philip Lima, baritone; Martha Banks,
soprano; and Jesse Turner, baritone.

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October 4 — Reunion — Concert of jazz
and Brazilian music, featuring vocalist
Lisa Thorson and pianist Doug Johnson.

October 9 - 8 Shades of Blue - Led by
faculty guitarist Craig Hlady the concert
will feature originals and standards in a
blues based small group setting which
will also mix elements of jazz and funk.

October 10 — Sal Difusco Project — The
Sal Difusco Project will perform original
jazz rock fusion material. The band
consists of guitar, sax, drums, keys, bass,
and percussion.

October 15 - Nicholl & Farquharson

- Wind Music - The third in a series of
concerts by Matthew Nicholl and Mi-
chael Farquharson, Wind Music features
compositions for woodwind quintet,
rhythm section and saxophone soloist.
The ensemble includes Nicholl on piano,
Farquharson on fretted, fretless, and pic-
colo basses, Greg Badolato on tenor sax,
Steve Langone on drums, and a wood-
wind quintet composed of faculty and
area professionals. Nicholl and Farquhar-
son each wrote half of the program.

October 18 — Esterhazy Quartet - This
will be the 10 th year that the Esterhazy
String Quartet will be a visiting artist
residency at Berklee. This prestigious
quartet from St. Louis will be reading
student compositions and will be giving
comments 0 composers.