Berklee Performance Center Concerts



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April 20 - Guitar Week-Guitar Night - Five of Berklee's top rock, jazz, blues, and
fusion student guitarists will be featured individually and collectively in a fast paced
program of covers and originals. Five all-star student rhythm sections will assist in
the Guitar Department’s biggest annual event.

April 22 - Spirit Song with Vocal Summit/Chichester Psalms by Leonard
Bernstein - Under the direction of faculty member Bob Stoloff, Berklee’s Vocal
Summit presents original music in many musical idioms including jazz, folk, classical
and spontaneous improvisations by composers Neuza Teixeira, Andy Rozas, Megan
Gass and Richard Meffley. Then the Berklee Concert Choir, under the direction of
Voice faculty Anne Peckham, will perform Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein,
commissioned by the Cathedral of Chichester in Sussex England for their 1965 Music
Festival. This performacne will feature organ, harp and percussion accompaniment
and the choir will sing in Hebrew with a solo quartet and boy alto.

April 25 - Singers’ Showcase - In honor of Berklee’s 50th anniversary the Yo Team
presents a tribute to fifty years of music from the forties up until to present day. This
concert will feature some of the college’s finest student vocalists, instrumentalists, and
arrangers performing music of artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Andrews Sisters , Fats
Domino, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Beatles, The Supremes, Elton John, Donna
Summer, Toni Braxton, Stevie Wonder, and K.D. Lang.

April 29 - Chord Scale Madness/Lin Biviano Big Band Jazz Ensemble- Under the
direction of Jazz Composition department faculty member Jackson Schultz, some of
the strongest student arrangements from the “Voicings Derived from Chord Scales”
course will be performed by a large ensemble. Then Ensemble department faculty
member Lin Biviano presents big band jazz in the style of the Maynard Ferguson
Band with arrangements and compositions of Don Sebesky, Slide Hampton Willie
Maiden, Ernie Wilkins and Biviano.

April 30 - An Evening with the Berklee Rainbow Orchestra - Under the direction
of faculty composer/arranger/trombonist Phil Wilson, jazz fusion originals will be
performed by one of Berklee's premiere ensembles .

May 1 - Shout!-The Reverence Gospel Ensemble & Overjoyed- An evening of
contemporary and traditional gospel music performed by Berklee's Reverence Gospel
Ensemble will feature compositions by Donald Lawrence, Johnathan Hall, Jules
Bartholomew, David Frazier and ensemble director faculty member Dennis
Montgomery III. Berklee's new small gospel ensemble, Overjoyed, will also perform.

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