On March 14, Shelbie Rassler (B.M. '20), a composition major in her senior year at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, flew home to Fort Lauderdale, Florida as the coronavirus was shutting down the campus she loved. An ambitious 22-year-old who has written music for a Lexus commercial and a PBS documentary, she was shaken and upset.

Artists are coming up with creative ways to do their work while social distancing. Now a Boston student has pulled together dozens of performers from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Berklee College of Music to form a “virtual orchestra.”

Conservatory alumni Oliver Caplan (M.M. '06, composition) and Gregory Fritze (B.M. '76, composition) have each been recognized as 2019 Honored Artists of The American Prize. Honored Artists have proven themselves to be artists of "sustained excellence" as laureates in The American Prize competitions

American Composers Orchestra to perform world premiere orchestrations of Charles Ives's 114 Songs, including two by Conservatory Chair of Composition, Contemporary Music, and Core Studies Jonathan Bailey Holland.