Sunday, March 1, 2015

(1937 – 2014) The Understated Genius at the Root of a Half-Century of Jazz Rich Appleman, Whit Browne, Joe Coroniti, Bruce Gertz, John Lockwood, Ed Lucie, Bruno Råberg Rich Appleman , Chair Emeritus Bass Department: In my opinion Charlie Haden was a great bassist, composer, and band leader. I first …

My childhood was filled with tennis lessons, moon-bounce birthday parties, boating at the yacht club, and Christian Rock Music. Life was balanced by two loving parents, a blonde baby brother, church every Sunday, and one of the highest rated school districts in Massachusetts.

Bruno Råberg recorded his original "Triloka - Three Realms" in Shames Family Scoring Stage at Berklee College of Music with students and faculty.

Music by Matias Ambrogi Torres Lyrics taken from “The Song of the Old Mother” a poem by William B. Yeats from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) [Link to Score]…

Born in 1992, Anton was raised on Easter Island (Chile) and moved with his family to Stockholm, Sweden in 1997. He started to play piano at the age of seven, and the guitar when he was 11. At the age of 16 he studied "Music Theory and Performance" at the prestigious music high school Rytmus in Stockholm, and later founded a company at 18 to sell music for media.

Alper Tuzcu is a singer-songwriter doing Study Abroad in Valencia. He made an EP called Between Two Waters last semester, based on Valencia standing at a cultural intersection between the Mediterranean sea and Atlantic Ocean.

David Fiuczynski is Director of the Planet MicroJam Institute at Berklee. He also moonlights as the leader of the Screaming Headless Torsos.

Jenna Moynihan and Mairi Chaimbeul

By Rumle Sieling Langdal Jensen A music Video

Click to hear MP3 submissions from the contest winners, as well as the finalists.

By Wayne Meekins