Faculty
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Darla Hanley, Dean
DEPARTMENT : Professional Education Division"The Professional Education Division at Berklee College of Music includes five departments: music business/management, music education, music therapy, professional music, and the liberal arts. Our students are in all corners of the music industry as entrepreneurs, teachers, therapists, performers, managers, promoters, and more."
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Annette Philip, Instructor
DEPARTMENT : Voice Department"My first love is working with multiple voices, and in India I have a group, over 250 members now, called Artists Unlimited. The whole concept of circle singing is something that is so very powerful. Circle singing is a concept that as far as I know Bobby McFerrin introduced to the world. It's very organic. He assigns a part to the bass singers, and another interlocking part to the sopranos, and something else for the altos, and something else for the tenors, and maybe he would improvise over it. It's a very dynamic form of composition; it's always improvised. One of the students started a circle singing group at Berklee. You have to really surrender to the moment. I think in all music that's what we're trying to encourage our students to do, to surrender and be totally present in the moment. And I feel that circle singing is a very noncompetitive, nonhostile, supportive, healing, and liberating space to just give yourself to and then see what happens."
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"I teach Arranging 2 and Big Band Arranging. When I went to Berklee, I was a very reluctant arranging student. I just didn't think I needed it, and I wanted to become a studio musician. Taking all the other mandatory classes made sense, but arranging didn't. When would I ever arrange? It's funny that now I teach arranging and sell a lot of my arrangements. That's something that I try to instill in my students: You think you know what you want while you're here, but keep your mind open, because you have to be prepared when opportunities come up."
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Amanda Monaco, Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Guitar Department"Berklee is so comprehensive and up to date with what's really going on in the music business. They tap into that in a way that I think other schools don't. And they're very realistic about what a musician needs to have to be a complete musician as opposed to just a player. The resources are vast, and students are getting a whole music experience, even before declaring a major. They have a foundation."
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Rick Peckham, Assistant Chair
DEPARTMENT : Guitar Department"To me the musician's responsibility is not only to get the sound out of your head and to the instrument, but actually into the mind of the listener—and there are a lot of things between your mind and the listener's. You need to know about sound production on your instrument, getting your sound recorded, and making that sound the best it can be."
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- B.S., Computer Science, Middle Tennessee State University
- Drummer
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Robert Gallegos, Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Ensemble Department- B.M., Berklee College of Music
- Trumpeter
- Freelance musician
- Performances with Ray Charles, the Four Tops, the Temptations, the O'Jays, the Sam Rivers Orchestra, Mariachi Cobre with the Jacksonville Symphony, Giovanni Hidalgo, Ray Barretto, the Eguie Castrillo Latin Big Band, the Kenny Hadley Big Band, the Boston Pops, the U.S. Air Force Liberty Band, and others
- Recordings with the Eguie Castrillo Latin Big Band
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"At Berklee in general, and in our department especially, we strike the right path between the traditional composition and arranging techniques and the technological aspect of production. We teach the latest technology in terms of production, recording, and sequencing, but we also provide our students with the traditional orchestration techniques for acoustic ensembles, tools that are extremely valuable these days to any professional musician. I always strongly encourage my students to stay updated on new musical trends, new arranging techniques, new styles, and new technologies. Technology should be regarded as a tool to improve the quality of music and to help develop new musical idioms, but it is imperative for the student to sustain a balance that includes strong musicianship"
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Vadim Neselovskyi, Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Piano Department"This is not a music school for children. If you came to Berklee you obviously already have something that you want to do, and I'm curious about it. What I really enjoy about all my students is how different they are. I'm teaching the full day, and I get to teach Mozart, and then I get to talk about bebop, and then I get to talk about indie pop tunes. We cover the full body of music."
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"There's a real interest in musical theater at Berklee. I don't think there's any other college that has nearly 1,000 vocal majors. Under the initiative of Camille Colatosti, support to provide students with more opportunities to perform in a theatrical setting became a priority. We have established a musical theater minor in the Liberal Arts Department. The student-run Musical Theater Club boasts more than 400 members, and the Liberal Arts Department supports more than six productions a year.
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