David Friend Recital Hall Concerts

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 XIl — 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
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.

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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.

April.12- NOIR persents “The Ibrahima
Drum” — Guitar department faculty member
Chris Buono hand the group NOIR--Chris
Tarry, bass, Andy Sanesi, drums, Jason Scott,
tenor sax, Jesse Selengut, trumpet—bring the
tale of The Ibrahima Drum to Berklee. The
band’s performance is a recount of a com-
pelling narrative penned by Selengut that is
interwoven with dark and funky composi-
tions affording the musicians room to delve
into deep improvisations.

7:30 pm - Bruce Saunders Quartet featuring
Rob Thomas — Faculty guitarist Bruce
Saunders presents original jazz for quartet in
cluding faculty bassist Bruno Raberg and
drummer Take Toriama with special guest
faculty violinist Rob Thomas.

April 13- [4:00 pm] Jane Miller - Faculty
Guitarist/Composer Jane Miller leads a quar-
tet featuring guitar, piano, bass, and drums.
The group plays contemporary jazz instru-
mentals composed by the leader as well as
some arrangements of music by other com-
posers in the jazz and popular music genres.
Some acoustic guitar will be featured as well
as the more traditional jazz electric guitar.

April 13 -7:30 pm - Dave Fiuczynski & Dave
Tronzo - Two iconoclastic guitar titans named
Dave join forces in a show of slide and fret-
less guitar, free form blues and eastern
melodies, Moroccan tinged grooves and
straight ahead mans featuring faculty gui-
tarists David Fiuzynski, Dave Tronzo with
bassist Mike Rivard and drummer Bertram
Lehman.