Berklee City Music
Building Communities Note By Note

	Berklee City Music Scholarship recipients with Roger Brown

Berklee City Music is a nonprofit education program that harnesses the energy of contemporary music to reach underserved 4th- to 12th-graders. Each year Berklee City Music brings high-quality music education to thousands of students in Boston and across the country.

Students develop leadership and teamwork skills, mutual respect, self-discipline, and a sense of purpose - all while finding their creative voice, discovering their strengths, and building their musical talent. With year-round tuition-free instruction, expert faculty, individualized mentoring, academic counseling, a comprehensive curriculum, scholarship opportunities, and the college's resources and facilities, youths are set up to successfully embark on higher education and careers.

To date, 127 Boston-area high school students have received four-year, full-tuition scholarships to attend Berklee College of Music. Berklee City Music has been nationally recognized with the prestigious Coming Up Taller Award, an initiative of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities to recognize and support outstanding community arts and humanities programs.

We can all be pleased that the proceeds from the annual Encore Gala help deserving young people pursue their dreams and aspirations. We offer our thanks to principal lead sponsor Bain Capital Children's Charity Ltd.; colead sponsors Abrams Capital, Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, and Subaru of New England; and all our other sponsors and guests for helping to make this possible.