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Events Calendar
Most events are free and open to the public. The ticket price for college concerts in the Berklee Performance Center is $10 for the general public. For specific information about ticket prices and discounts please visit the BPC's website.
Upcoming Events: September 2008
September 2008
September
4
Berklee's 2008 Free Summer Concert Series
Manami Morita
Thursday, September 4, 12:00 p.m., Kendall Square
A native of Saitama, Japan, Manami Morita started playing classical piano at 4—and hated her lessons. But once she discovered jazz at age 13, she was hooked. Later, when Morita received a scholarship to study at Berklee, she put aside thoughts of doing anything other than following her dream of playing jazz. Morita appears on the Jazz Revelation Records album Common Ground, with the track “Going Home.” This expressive and energetic pianist recently won the Mary Jane Earnhart Endowed Scholarship.
Free Admission
Berklee's 2008 Free Summer Concert Series
Manami Morita
Thursday, September 4, 6:00 p.m., Institute of Contemporary Art
Thursday, September 11, 12:00 p.m., Kendall Square
Katie Thiroux, from Los Angeles, California, is the recipient of the Phil Ramone Presidential Scholarship to Berklee, a rare, full-ride award. She just completed her second year at the college. Thiroux performed at the 2004 and 2005 IAJE conferences as both a bassist and vocalist. For four years in a row, she was selected to be a member of the elite Gibson/Baldwin Grammy National Honor Jazz Ensemble. She has also received fellowships to the prestigious Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony and the Vail Jazz Festival. In 2005 she was awarded the Los Angeles Jazz Society's Shelly Manne New Talent Award. She received the Down Beat Student Music Award for Outstanding Vocal Performance (2005) and Outstanding Bassist (2006).
Free Admission
Berklee's 2008 Free Summer Concert Series
Katie Thiroux
Thursday, September 11, 6:00 p.m., Institute of Contemporary Art
Friday, September 12, 7:00 p.m., Berk Recital Hall
Four Across features piano faculty member Carmen Staaf; Josh Deutsch on trumpet/flugelhorn; Kendall Eddy on bass; and Brian Adler on drums. The bicoastal group will play originals influenced by Danilo Perez, Thelonious Monk, and Hanne Hukkelberg.
"A repeat play on my ipod. Five stars all the way!" -Ray Vega
September
16
Fourth Annual String Department Faculty Concert
Tuesday, September 16, 7:30 p.m., David Friend Recital Hall
String department faculty perform in their annual "welcome back" concert coordinated by faculty violinist Mimi Rabson.
September
17
The Sal DiFusco Project
Wednesday, September 17, 7:30 p.m., David Friend Recital Hall
Original jazz-rock fusion compositions with saxophone, keyboards, guitar, bass and drums will be performed under the direction of faculty guitarist Sal DiFusco.
Mark Shilansky: Just the Piano Playah?
Wednesday, September 17, 8:15 p.m., Berklee Performance Center
Faculty member Mark Shilansky and his band play jazz-tinged originals and arrangements of unorthodox cover songs, featuring special guest vocalists David Thorne Scott, Julie Hardy, and Kate Schutt.
September
18
Berklee's 2008 Free Summer Concert Series
Keppie Coutts
Thursday, September 18, 12:00 p.m., Kendall Square
Keppie Coutts is an Australian-born funk-folkstress reveling in the new wave of folk fusion—an eclectic mix of acoustic-based songs that step inside jazz and soul. Coutts started out spreading her words as poetry at Sydney arts haunts and indie spaces. Very quickly, the words found a canvas of music, and almost as quickly she was thrust into the studio where she recorded her debut album On the Edge of a Dream. Since coming to Berklee in 2005, she has earned the praise of peers, audiences, and mentors. She won both the Performing Songwriter Competition and the Songwriter's Showcase Competition—two prestigious showcases that Berklee presents to display its best talent.
Free Admission
September
20
The Berklee Latin Jazz All-Stars. From left, Niv Toar, trumpet; Juan Maldonado, bass; Paulo Stagnaro, leader, congas; Marco Lopez, timbales; Abraham Olivo, piano; Enrique "Kalani" Trinidad, flute and saxophone.
Berklee Latin Jazz All-Stars
Saturday, September 20, 5:00 p.m., Monterey Jazz Festival
The All-Stars complete their trio of performances with an explosive show in the Coffeehouse Gallery, the festival's most intimate venue. [details]
September
22
Marti Epstein: Composer/Pianist
Monday, September 22, 7:30 p.m., David Friend Recital Hall
Composition department faculty member pianist Marti Epstein will perform her entire 12 American etudes for solo piano. In addition, she will perform a Bach prelude and fugue and three pieces written for her by former students.
September
23
Sheryl Bailey and Friends
Tuesday, September 23, 7:30 p.m., David Friend Recital Hall
Faculty guitarist Sheryl Bailey performs original jazz and standards.
September
24
An Evening with Old Crow Medicine Show
Wednesday, September 24, 8:00 p.m., Berklee Performance Center
Old Crow Medicine Show (O.C.M.S.), featuring keening vocal harmonies, fiddles, and banjos, plays songs from some of the earliest traditions of American music—tunes from jug bands and traveling shows, back porches and dance halls, southern Appalachian string music and Memphis blues. It is not the only band playing pre-World War II blues, fiddle tunes, rags, hollers, hokum, and jug band music, but it does so with a brazenness born of growing up around AC/DC, Nirvana, and Public Enemy. The fiery result equally impresses fussy old-time music scholars, fellow modern day roots musicians, and fans that forage on the frontiers of hip.
Thursday, September 25, 12:00 p.m., Kendall Square
Free Admission
Twenty-Four Solar Terms for Piano Solo
Thursday, September 25, 7:30 p.m., David Friend Recital Hall
Faculty composer Rosey Lee presents contemporary piano music with guest artist Lauren Chack Clerk.
September
29
5/4: 5 New Works for Bassoon 4tet
Monday, September 29, 6:30 a.m., David Friend Recital Hall
The New England Bassoon Quartet will be performing five mainly classical commissioned works from Berklee faculty composers Michael Weinstein, Greg Hopkins, Andrew List, Marti Epstein, and Beth Denisch under the direction of faculty member Margaret Phillips.
