Upcoming Events

Berklee's official SXSW party features alumni and students performing rock, indie pop, hip-hop, folk, and country. Artists include Audible Mainframe, Ann Driscoll, Love Like Fire, Nini & Ben, Shayna Zaid & the Catch, Jordan Tarrant, Stefan Wm, and the Young Republic. [details]

Air is two musicians (Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin) who are typically French yet altogether worldly. They come to Boston in support of their latest album, Love 2. Opening for Air will be AM. [details]

KidsJam is workshop which gives Berklee Music Education students, led by Professors Libby Allison and Charlene Ryan, an opportunity to practice their skills in a fun and energetic, performance-style setting. Each session will involve singing, moving, playing instruments, stories, listening, and creating or improvising music. Email kidsjam@berklee.edu for a reservation form.

SoYoung Park, a piano player and a vocalist, presents her arranging and compositions with her band.

Original compositions and arrangements by Daniel Weiss played with great friends.

A plethora of feel-good funky music that'll get you hopping in your seats. Plenty of keys and singing along with a smorgasbord of special guests (including Flo and many more). So come on down to the Mike Barnett Happy Hour and get funked up!

Frequent travels to Brazil and the Spanish Caribbean keep Latin jazz pianist Rebecca Cline in touch with the root of her inspiration: groove. Cline displays a mastery of harmonic devices, and her improvisations radiate the rhythmic power of world music and the lyrical grace of jazz. Joining her is Will Slater on acoustic bass and Karina Colison on drums.

Come and join us for a musical journey through song. we'll give you a new twist on some old standards as well as presenting some brand-new compositions. This show will feature some of the most up-and-coming Berklee students, alumni, staff, and faculty, all coming together to create a beautiful musical portrait. Instrumental as well as a cappella—a little something for everyone.

Christian Scott is a young Berklee alumnus and Grammy-nominated jazz trumpeter, composer, and producer who is having a major impact on the jazz scene. He released his fifth album, Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, on February 1, 2010. [details]

Yui Koda performs solo pieces, original, and ensemble pieces. This is last concert for her in Berklee. Please come and share the wonderful time with her.

Pianist Shin Iikura presents this recital.

This international quintet is going to perform original compositions by Stephan Dickbauer, Alex Pinter, Dimitrije Vasilievic and Nick Merriam. By using stylistic variety in groove, composition, and arrangements, we try to connect to everybody in the audience. The music will express and project the colorful variety of our different origins while melting into one single voice.

Vocalist Kelly Moses presents this showcase of pop/rock music.

Music therapy majors will present contemporary songs that they compose and perform with and for clients in clinical settings. This annual event brings music therapy students together to celebrate music as a healing modality.

Jazz pianist Yuki Shibata, a 2009 Berklee graduate, leads a group performing her originals.

The contemporary writing and production student concert features some of the best CWP students and their dynamic songs and arrangements in an exciting mix of electrifying music. [details]

Alone or with fellow musicians, guitar, fiddle, or banjo in hand, Bruce Molsky has been exploring traditional music from an astonishingly broad range of cultures over the past two decades, synthesizing them and refracting them through his own evolving sensibilities to the point where the sources of his inspiration transform themselves into a sound that is uniquely his. [details]

Jim Benoit, percussionist and vibraphonist, will give a one-hour recital featuring a wide variety of music from solo classical and contemporary pieces to a septet performance by the Waitiki 7.

Play in the Black Box is the first series at the Arsenal Center for the Arts featuring Berklee students—an intimate and personal experience for every concertgoer. Tubby Love will be performing music tonight from new album Tubby Love and Graymation. [details]

For his senior recital David Kocses will be playing tunes from Miles Davis, Roy Haynes, John Coltrane, and many others.

Pianist Hiroshi Uenohara presents this senior recital.

The Red Room presents: Deafened By Love, an indie rock band hailing from Western Massachusetts. [details]

This is a concert of the best student projects from CP212 (Counterpoint 2) courses from 2009.

Several Berklee composers will have their pieces read for the 2010 commencement. The winning composer will be selected to have his/her piece performed at the 2010 commencement.

The Red Room at Cafe 939 presents its hour-long lunchtime concert series, the New Brew, featuring Elise Hayes. Bring your lunch or indulge your palate with coffeehouse fare.

Liutauras Janusaitis presents original compositions and standard arrangements in a modern jazz idiom.

Pianist Maria Eugenia Leon Mazorra presents this recital, combining classical and jazz music.

Aslihan Niksarli will play original compositions with her band. It will be a night of improvisation, avant garde, and funk.

Blues music in the style of the Muddy Waters Band, Etta James, and Little Walter, and originals by Tyghan Zhivaz will be presented in this inspired senior recital. Featuring the band Van der Blues.

Original chamber music compositions will be featured by three selected Berklee student composers.

Hear the familiar strains of love, loss, triumph, sorrow, and joy in a dozen new ways as Berklee students perform music from around the world. Learn more about the concert.

Classical violinist Martynas Švėgžda von Bekker, a Fulbright Scholar at Boston University, presents a clinic. [details]

This program is a showcase for the understudies in the production of Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida. This is a prelude to the full show which will take place April 21 in the BPC.

Short concert showcasing originals by James Partridge.

Guitarist/composer Jun Soo Kim will play original compositions and some jazz standards for his senior recital, including exciting music from different parts of the world.

In this senior guitar recital, Pablo Vallejos presents a performance of standard and original compositions in the jazz idiom with a small band ensemble of vibrant interaction.

Ryan Cabrera burst into the music scene in 2004 with his hits "On the Way Down" and "True." Since then he has toured extensively and put out several other albums, most recently The Moon Under Water. Come hear the hits and some new material that Ryan is readying for his next release. Also appearing: Samantha Schultz

Freezepop has always been something of an oxymoron: embraced by both hipsters and nerds, serious about irony, and retro-futuristic. A synth band in a guitar video game, singing pop songs about rock. And it all somehow makes sense when you listen to the music. [details]

Jackie Barnes's Journey in African Grooves will take you on a rhythmic experience through the continent that has given him so much inspiration throughout his studies at Berklee. The show will combine influences from Morocco, Sénégal, Mali, Ghana, Cameroon, and South Africa, showcasing such artists as Mokhtar Samba, Oumou Sangare, Thandiswa, and Miriam Makeba, and will feature an array of talented instrumentalists and vocalists. This unforgettable show will leave you as inspired as Barnes has been by these wonderful songs. Look out for some special guests!

In a dazzling display of Indian percussion, tabla superstar Zakir Hussain is joined by the finest percussionists from India's classical and folk traditions, including Sabir Khan, (sarangi, lute) Ganesh and Kumaresh (violins), Taufiq Qureshi (percussion), Navin Sharma (dholak, two-headed folk drum), Sridar Parthasarathy (mridangam, barrel drum), and the breathtaking Bengali Drummers.

KidsJam is workshop which gives Berklee Music Education students, led by Professors Libby Allison and Charlene Ryan, an opportunity to practice their skills in a fun and energetic, performance-style setting. Each session will involve singing, moving, playing instruments, stories, listening, and creating or improvising music. Email kidsjam@berklee.edu for a reservation form.

As with bossa nova, flamenco now has a rich vocabulary to play any kind of repertoire without losing its distinctive sound. Artist/producer Javier Limón, a five-time Latin Grammy–winner, presents a clinic on flamenco interpretation that focuses on composition. Students will gain tools to enhance their own music, chords, rhythms, and melodic expression. [details]

Mario Evon (Mario Guthrie), the "Prince of Reggae-Soul" will perform not only his original material but a series of covers in an acoustic set, with a host of his friends and some of Berklee's most talented musicians. The instrumentation will include piano, guitar, violin, and percussion.

Lihi Haruvi presents her original music together with talented friends in this enchanting recital.

The music in this recital is the result of four years of exceptional education and unpredictable debauchery. Mark Kilianski showcases his compositions and arrangements as the culmination of his formal studies in jazz composition and informal studies of bluegrass, old-time, and Irish folk music at Berklee.

Guitarist/composer Mark Hadley leads a recital of original works influenced by jazz, rock, hip-hop, and electronic music.

A production of the Musical Theater Club.

A recital of original modern jazz compositions written by Alan Retamozo. For combo and medium-sized groups including mixed woodwinds and brass with rhythm section. Featuring some of Berklee's finest players.

Pianist Christian Li presents a combination of originals and standards.

Yoshinori Oiwa presents this recital.