Bill Elliott Associate Professor Contemporary Writing and Production "In the real world, particularly in film scoring, you're always struggling to get many minutes of music recorded in a short amount of time, so it's essential to use the time efficiently. You have to make your intentions clear-to answer players' questions before they have to ask them and take away from your precious time. You also have to write for the situation; so much professional work involves writing music that is easy to rehearse, easy to sight-read, easy to play, and easy to record. You can write something brilliant, but you might need three hours to rehearse it." Read more about Elliott... More on the Faculty...

About our Faculty

If there is one thing that every member of the Berklee community agrees on, it's the quality of our faculty. It's not merely that our teachers are great mentors to developing musicians or the fact of their extraordinary talent as performers, composers, producers, and business people. It's all of that, plus their deeply held belief that music isn't just a career. It's a way of being in the world and communicating with the people who inhabit it. Our faculty are passionate and serious about music, and they expect their students to be the same way.

If you come to Berklee, you'll be in the presence of not only educators but professional musicians who are among the best in their fields. Many of our faculty have earned Grammy Awards and nominations and have collaborated with the most groundbreaking artists out there. But we've got our own innovators right here, musicians you'll get to work side by side with, like Joe Lovano, Joanne Brackeen, Kenwood Dennard, Donna McElroy, Rod Morgenstein, Richard Evans, and Mick Goodrick. Spend some time reading through our site to learn more. Search below for more about them and the rest of our more than 531 faculty members. There's a lot to learn about our teachers, and a lot to learn from them.