Buck Meek B.M. ’10 discusses returning to Berklee on tour with Jeff Tweedy, writing and recording with Big Thief, how a surreal encounter with Joni Mitchell helped him finish his song “Halo Light," and more. Image by Shervin Lainez.
Dancer and choreographer, Ebony Williams (B.F.A. '05, contemporary dance), noted for her work with Beyoncé, was recently honored with an Alumni Achievement Award. She talks here about her road to a dance career and how she uses stories to inform her choreography. (Image by Nikita Alba)
Berklee alumna Nella Rojas muses on solitude with a Latin beat in the title track from her upcoming album.
Listen to Hakim’s slow-burning single, "Bet She Looks Like You,” ahead of his April 19 show at the Red Room at Cafe 939. Engineered by Zanne Hanna Edited by Darcy Davis
As a player and an educator, Berklee's new Guitar Department chair balances deep roots in tradition with stylistically diverse collaborations. Visit kimperlak.com for links to more music by Kim Perlak and the Perlak/Tronzo Duo.
Bands ranging from Americana and jazz to Berklee’s Balkan Choir and Indian Ensemble reimagined Metallica songs for Boston Conservatory at Berklee's Center Stage dance concert, 'Limitless,' April 11–14. Visit bostonconservatory.berklee.edu/centerstage for tickets and more information.
Berklee and Women in Music recently released the first-ever study of women working in the music industry. Erin Barra, who helmed the project, and researcher Becky Prior delve into the report's process, its findings, and how the industry can do better.
Alumnae folk trio Lula Wiles—featuring Eleanor Buckland '15, Isa Burke B.M. '16, and Mali Obomsawin '14—craft songs steeped in folk traditions, but with a raw and modern perspective. Listen to the ethereal triple harmonies in their ballad of heartbreak, "Love Gone Wrong."
Molsky's Mountain Drifters Search for a 'Bright Side Somewhere' by Berklee College of Music
Krystal Banfield, who leads Berklee City Music, talks with Stefanie Henning of the Career Center about how City Music helps disadvantaged young people develop musically while at the same time giving them an artistic community to thrive in.
Grammy-winning Brazilian vocalist and songwriter Luciana Souza B.M. ‘88, a featured performer at Larry Klein Meets Berklee on February 21, sets music to poetry on her latest album, The Book of Longing.
As Boston Conservatory at Berklee prepares to stage 'Hydrogen Jukebox,' a chamber opera collaboration between composer Philip Glass and poet Allen Ginsberg, director Nathan Troup shares his vision for adapting the experimental piece for today’s audience.
The incoming Woodwind Department chair’s versatility and lyricism are on full display in his new band, co-led with guitarist Matthew Stevens B.M. ’04. The band’s album was released on Whirlwind Recordings, owned by renowned bassist and composer Michael Janisch B.M. ’02.
Veteran Chinese music producer Billy Koh shares the insights he's gleaned from four decades working in the industry.
As we break for the holiday recess, 'Sounds of Berklee' flips the mic to our student engineer, Darcy Davis, whose band of fellow Berklee students, Lonely Path, just released their first single, "Continuum" on Spotify. Take a listen to the energetic, funked-up song and see if you're not humming that chorus all week.
The assistant chair of Berklee's Music Business/Management Department offers her practical, tough-love wisdom on making it in today’s industry.
Berklee Indian Ensemble Brings "Untold Stories" to Life by Berklee College of Music
Berklee's fall events calendar is stuffed full of senior recitals—each one telling its own story from showing up on campus with one idea, to graduating with many more to draw on. Here, three of those students share how they went about creating their final show at Berklee.
Berta Rojas and Paquito D'Rivera's Dia y Medio sprang from their four-year tour across the Americas. Here, we listen to "Las Abejas." Catch their Signature Series performance at Berklee on November 15.
Silkroad artists Cristina Pato, Galician bagpipes, and Edward Perez, double bass, discuss the collective's vision for education and its collaboration with Boston Conservatory at Berklee. And we listen to their song "Joropo-Festejo: Muiñeira de Chantada” from Pato’s album Latina, arranged by Perez.
Keyboard wunderkind and performance major Domi Degalle (a.k.a. DOMi) teams up with multi-instrumentalist Louis Cole (of KNOWER) for the synth and live-loop driven "Dark Webb," the first of a three-song collaboration.
The Boston Conservatory at Berklee contraBAND conductor interprets the landscape of African contemporary classical music, as well as his own identity, for a Center Stage performance on October 30.
In this episode, we listen to Avanti Nagral, a singer-songwriter pursuing a dual degree from Berklee and Harvard. She addresses issues of respect in relationships, set against a catchy beat, in "Treated."
In this episode, we talk to Professor Lucy Holstedt, who started the Women Musicians Network and annual concert in 1998, back when Berklee's student population was just over 20 percent female. She talks about what life for women students was like and how it's changed.
In this episode, we’ll listen to “Banshee” by the late jazz pioneer John Abercrombie ’67. Abercrombie will be celebrated with a Signature Series tribute concert on October 10.
As technical director for Tiny Desk concerts, Rogosin infuses NPR Music's popular video series with a mix of technology, theatricality, and artistry.
Petrova, who will perform with her quartet at the Monterey Jazz Festival on September 21 and 22, composed "The Traveler" on the Hammond organ.
In this episode, we’ll listen to alumnus Noé Zagroun’s latest piano piece, which reflects his upbringing in the French Riviera and the network of jazz and classical instrumentalists that he has worked with during his time here. He'll play Boston Common's Brewer Plaza on September 24.
In this episode, we’ll check out Associate Professor David Gilmore’s jazz-fusion song "Blues Mind Matter." Gilmore will perform at the Berklee Performance Center on August 13.
In this episode of Sounds of Berklee, we listen to Danielle Juhre, a powerhouse vocalist and music business major who draws on the help of her creative peers and education in business to manage and build a performance career on her own terms.
