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 in Boston and all across the country. Students dedicate themselves to building their musical talent, their self-confidence and, in the long run, the strength of their community.

With year-round instruction, expert faculty, individualized mentoring, and comprehensive curriculum, students are set up for success. City Music combines the breadth of Berklee resources, facilities, and available scholarships with an environment of attention and encouragement. Kids get the tools and support they need to flourish as students, musicians, and, perhaps most important, as confident and well-rounded individuals ready to shape their world.

Berklee City Music has grown with inspiring vigor. Talented urban students participate each year tuition-free, through scholarship support, in the various components of the program including:

• Music Mentoring
• Preparatory Academy
• High School Academy
• City Music Faculty Outrreach
• City Music Summer Scholarships
• City Music College Scholarships

Berklee faculty and students work with these young people not only to nurture their music skills but also to develop the discipline and professionalism they will need to succeed in higher education.

The Berklee City Music Network connects Berklee City Music in Boston with like-minded programs all over the country. The goal of the network is to provide kids with every opportunity to see their musical potential.

For more information please visit berkleecitymusicnetwork.org.

Since the program's inception in 1992, over thousands of youths have benefited from participating through scholarship support in the Berklee City Music program.

Through this program, 113 Boston-area high school students have received full-tuition, four-year scholarships to attend Berklee College of Music. Participants have also gone on to pursue degrees at Harvard, Brown, Wesleyan and NYU to name a few. Other City Music graduates are working with well-known artists.

Berklee City Music has been nationally recognized as a recipient of the prestigious Coming Up Taller Award. Coming Up Taller, an initiative of the Presidents Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, recognizes and supports outstanding community arts and humanities programs that celebrate the creativity of young people, and provide them with new learning opportunities and a chance to contribute to their communities.

Quincy Jones has become lead advocate for the program's expansion on a national level.

Berklee has received ceremonial recognition from the Higher Education Partnership and Mayor Thomas M. Menino for its City Music Program and for demonstrating exemplary best practices for grades K-12 in partnering with the Boston Public Schools.