Full Calendar of Events at the Berklee Performance Center

Berklee's 39th International Folk Festival, directed by Christiane Karam and Vessela Stoyanova, celebrates the college's diverse community with a performance showcasing traditional music from cultures around the world, featuring both Berklee students and special guest artists.

An iconic Iranian artist of this generation, Mansour is one of the most popular singers among the 100 million Farsi-speaking people worldwide. Known for his positive messages and energetic music, Mansour’s work has become part of the fabric of Iranian life, even though he lives and records in the US.

The Berklee Tower of Power Ensemble invites you to come renew your soul, cleanse your funky palette, and get your groove on as they present their unique spin on the music of Tower of Power.

Professor Eguie Castrillo presents Mambo Mania, his long-awaited show at the Berklee Performance Center, with a big band made up of the most outstanding students and professors at Berklee College of Music, and featuring saxophonist Edmar Colón.

Bluegrass banjo standout Noam Pikelny brings together accomplished friends for this concert that promises virtuosity, playful and unbounded musicianship, and, if Pikelny’s self-deprecatingly hilarious YouTube outings are any indication, plenty of smiles and humor.  
 

The International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella is a bracket tournament including over 450 groups in the US and Europe. In this semifinal show, 10 collegiate groups from the Northeast will showcase their talents in hopes of moving to the final round.
 

This concert will feature all of the premier a cappella groups at Berklee College of Music: On the Vox, Pitch Slapped, Treble Threat, and Upper Structure.
 

Berklee’s Career Jam culminates in the second annual Career Jam Award Show, highlighting talent from all career communities and a broad spectrum of majors. From writers to producers to business teams, this concert will showcase the most recognized students in their growing industry expertise.
 

Best of the Boston Comedy Festival is a one-night-only celebration of the festival’s greatest moments. Proceeds from the show will benefit the Comedy Gives Back Fire Fund, providing crucial support to comedians affected by the devastating fires in Los Angeles.

Dr. Mario Alonso Puig, a physician and surgeon fellow at Harvard University, is the author of 12 books and a renowned speaker specializing in methods to help individuals and organizations reach their full potential. 

The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice (JGJ) presents its second Grand Gathering, with special guests JGJ artist-in-residence Marquis Hill, Kris Davis, Terri Lyne Carrington, Christiana Hunte, Val Jeanty, and Matthew Stevens. 

Matt Jenson, a member of Berklee's Piano Department, presents an album release concert for Unmarked Routes, featuring an evening of ambient-neoclassical-dub-piano-with-electronics, a string quartet, woodwinds, and dance.

The Music Inclusion Ensemble is an innovative musical collaboration of disabled artists reimagining classical music. Developed and codirected by Adrian Anantawan, Gaelynn Lea, and Molly Joyce, it is joined by a rotating cast of talented disabled musicians and allies at various stages of their musical careers.
 

Berklee students who have successfully completed the Literary Influences of David Bowie course will perform a selection of Bowie songs that reflect the themes of fate, immortality, and elements of the supernatural.
 

Join us as the talented students from Berklee's Contemporary Writing and Production Department showcase their ability to reimagine classic melodies and craft original compositions.

Each semester, 250 talented Berklee vocal students compete for a spot in Singers Night, one of Berklee's Voice Department's most prestigious shows. This semester's theme: 80s Flashback.

Abeer Nehme will transport the audience to a world of warmth with her deeply emotional songs.

Featuring a powerhouse band and a line-up of stellar vocalists, Curtain Up celebrates the winners of Berklee’s annual Musical Theater Songwriting Contest. Don’t miss this dazzling showcase of musical theater talent at the 17th annual performance of original songs written, orchestrated, and performed by Berklee students. 

This year's Gospel Extravaganza will feature Berklee's Reverence Gospel Ensemble and will pay tribute to the tremendous legacy of gospel music at Berklee through a retrospective glimpse of 40-plus years of excellence presented by the Reverence Reunion Gospel Choir and hosted by Dr. Teresa Jackson.

With stories from Aakash Gupta's childhood home to his first multinational corporation job after graduation, this show is personal, awkward, and even more hilarious. 

Saxophone great and former Berklee professor Bill Pierce in a program of new arrangements by Eric Gould for sax, rhythm section, and strings, directed by Eugene Friesen.
 

Join Ichiko Aoba on an ethereal journey with her latest release, Luminescent Creatures. With the power to bend space around her, Aoba pulls listeners from reality and surrounds them in the comforting fabric of her imagination.

Ali Sethi creates music that is a rich fusion of traditional qawwali, ghazals, and modern influences. The New York City-based Pakistani artist blends traditional South Asian melodies with global beats, drawing on folk and woke iconographies to tell powerful tales of identity. 

The story of the legendary chanteuse Edith Piaf's life and career, told through her timeless songs, is a sweeping and romantic experience. 

Living legend Eva Ayllón is celebrating 55 years of spreading the joy of Peruvian music around the world. She is joined by the young, exuberant talent Daniela Darcourt, and together they will transform the stage into a pure musical explosion.