Academics
With an array of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as summer, international, and precollege offerings, Berklee College of Music provides options for students of all levels to explore and achieve their artistic, academic, and career potential.
The David Friend Recital Hall, located in the Genko Uchida building at 921 Boylston Street, is a semicircular performance space with a horseshoe-shaped balcony, designed by architect Shizuo Harada.
Join Berklee Faculty Stefano Marchese and Andrea Pejrolo, along with some exceptional guest artists, for an exciting evening of sophisticated music, where Mediterranean rhythms and atmospheres meet jazz harmonies and melodies.
This concert, directed by Yoshie Nakayama, is dedicated to promoting world peace through the universal language of music, embracing the diversity and global spirit of the Berklee community.
This concert features performances by Voice Department students and faculty singing songs from the Post 1960 Jazz Vocal Repertoire Project, a developing resource website curated by Voice Department Professor Lisa Thorson in collaboration with Library Resources. The concert brings the music to a live performance environment, arranged and interpreted by our talented student and faculty vocalists.
An evening of music for jazz orchestra featuring some of Boston's finest musicians, with original compositions and arrangements inspired by poetry, literature, and cosmic phenomena.
Woodwind Department fall welcome event for new and continuing students. Woodwind Department faculty and students will share information on the department as well as live performances.
The RPJO features many Berklee faculty members and folks from the greater Boston area and will be playing Pingrey's original compositions and arrangements. Brand new music from 2023 and 2024 will be in the spotlight!
Songwriting Professor Michael Wartofsky presents excerpts from his latest shows: Spin Me Right Round (based on the young adult novel by Berklee Faculty Faculty David Valdes) and LATE, with book and lyrics by award-winning playwright Kathleen Cahill.
Performance featuring members of our diverse and illustrious Berklee percussion department, including Nancy Zeltsman, Gustavo Agatiello, Chair Yoron Israel, and guest faculty member Craig McNutt, as part of the 2023 Summer Program "Berklee Drums and Percussion Workshop." The concert will display the full gamut of percussion styles.
A retrospective of long-time faculty member Michael Bierylo's musical work during his time at Berklee, featuring Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with special guests Roger Miller, Neil Leonard, Daedelus, and Phil Lima.
Over his 28 year career at Berklee, starting as a faculty member in 1995 then becoming Chair of the Electronic Production and Designed Department in 2012, Michael Bierylo has enjoyed a musical life as a guitarist, composer and electronic musician. Tonight's concert will be a retrospective of his musical work during this time featuring Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with special guests Roger Miller, Neil Leonard, Daedelus and Phil Lima.
Combining music and video to create spontaneous portals into alternate space-time dimensions, Underwater Airport is an entirely improvisational multimedia ensemble inspired by such diverse sources as shamanic trance music, 1960's free jazz and psychedelia, ambient electronica, and world beat.
This great night of music will feature the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra performing works by Ayn Inserto, assistant chair of the harmony and jazz composition department. Arrangements and compositions will focus on the beauty of the line as it intertwines through harmony and various grooves. This music will sizzle in the summer of 2023!
An evening of original compositions spanning many facets of the jazz genre with Vice President Ron Savage and Sound of Soul, featuring Bill Pierce, Bobby Broom, Farayi Malek, Consuelo Candelaria-Barry, and Ron Mahdi.