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Pianist Rings in New Year at Berklee
On New Year's Eve, New Orleans piano professor—and Berklee NOVA fund recipient—Henry Butler kicked off the NPR Toast of the Nation international broadcast from Berklee's David Friend Recital Hall. (Boston Globe, December 30, 2005)

Pickers and Strummers Find a Home in the City
Adding bluegrass to its contemporary music curriculum, Berklee responds to the interests of its students and trends in contemporary music. (Boston Globe, December 28, 2005)

Alumni Make Year-End 'Best Of' List
Recordings made by two recent alumni—saxophonist Miguel Zenon and composer Guillermo Klein—make Ben Ratliff's list of the best jazz albums of 2005. (New York Times, December 25, 2005)

Raising Voices and Spirits
Berklee's popular annual gospel concert, featuring two visiting artists from New Orleans, vocalist Marva Wright and pianist/vocalist Davell Crawford, leaves "no one unmoved," according to a glowing review of the show. (Boston Globe, December 15, 2005)

Tech Talk
Berklee's Studio A is showcased on the cover of the November issue of Mix, which features an interview with Stephen Croes and Rob Jaczko on the past, present, and future of the college's Music Technology Division. (Mix, November 1, 2005)

Scheiner, Massenburg Teach Berklee Students
Music Production & Engineering student Marimikel Charier writes about Berklee's recent visit from Grammy-winners Elliot Scheiner, George Massenburg, and Kathy Mattea. (Mix, November 1, 2005)

Global Perspectives
The unique stories of three international students—from Zimbabwe, Japan, and Kenya—are told in a series of radio profiles produced by Voice of America. (October 2005)

Student Songwriters Step Up
Two Berklee songsmiths catch the attention of country star Kathy Mattea, who recently recorded their song in the Berklee studios. Learn about how it happened in the Boston Globe. (October 9, 2005)

Former Faculty Composer Passes at 98
Conductor and composer Jeronimas Kacinskas, who taught at Berklee from 1967 to 1986 after fleeing his native Lithuania, is remembered in a Boston Globe obituary. (September 19, 2005)

From Berklee to the Big Time
Four members of pop group The Click Five met at Berklee, and now the rest of the world will meet them as they ready for their major label debut. Read about them in the Boston Globe. (August 7, 2005)

Berklee Student Remembers Rock School Days
First-year Berklee student guitarist Madi Diaz is the star of a new documentary, Rock School, about a Philadelphia school for teenage musicians. Boston Globe. (June 3, 2005)

Music Businessman Goes Back in School
Newbury Comics CEO and Berklee trustee Mike Dreese enrolls in The Future of Music, a new online course offering from Berkleemusic.com. Read about Dreese's class project in Mix. (May 18, 2005)

"Ace of Bass"
Twenty-year-old Esperanza Spalding, who is graduating from Berklee next month, is making a name for herself as a triple-threat musician. She writes songs, plays upright bass, and sings her original material with her band this week. Read a profile in the Boston Globe. (April 22, 2005)
Learn more about Esperanza in our Student Profiles section.

Faculty Guitarist Hits Milestone
When mid-50s guitarist John Stein takes the stage next week with his quartet, featuring saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman, it'll be his first gig as a leader at Boston jazz club Scullers. Learn about Stein's journey from Kansas City to Vermont to the top of the local jazz scene in the Boston Globe. (April 15, 2005)

Big Band Passion
Jazz composition professor by day, admired big band arranger and trumpeter by night, Berklee's Greg Hopkins works hard to breathe new life into music rooted in the early 20th century. Read more about his life, teaching, and music in the Boston Globe. (March 27, 2005)

Brazilian Chanteuse Finds Her Voice in Boston
"I'm really focused on Brazilian music and trying to get this mixture of rhythms and jazz," says Berklee senior Marcele to the Boston Globe. Read more about her rich musical upbringing, various gigs around town, and what brought her to North America in the first place. (March 18, 2005)

Taking the Break in Music City
Berklee students make their annual pilgrimage to Nashville for a week of clinics and concerts. An Associated Press story features interviews with guest artists Kathy Mattea and Matraca Berg, Berklee President Roger H. Brown, and faculty member Pat Pattison. (March 17, 2005)

Staff Vibraphonist Steps it Up
Berklee staff member Mattias Lupri's latest recording, Transition Sonic, marks another big step in his movement from life as a rock drummer to jazz composer and performer. The Boston Globe talks to the Lupri about playing with the greats and a gig at the Gardener Museum. (March 4, 2005)

Berklee Professor Reminisces in Harvard Magazine
Professor Walter Harp's submission for his Harvard class's fortieth anniversary report was singled out in Harvard Magazine. Read Professor Harp's recollections about "two people who played important roles in my undergraduate life...I chose then to think that each of them mattered not at all. Now I know better." (March-April, 2005 issue)

Berklee Entrepreneur Makes it Happen
Three years after founding his online concert booking company, music business/management alumnus Panos Panay is watching his big idea pay dividends. Visit Sonicbids.com. (February 23, 2005)

New Music Festival a Success
Writer Steve Morse praises the "endless" talent displayed at the 2005 Berklee New Music festival. Read more in his Boston Globe Rock Notes column. (February 18, 2005) Scroll down to the "New Music Festival" heading.

Getting Ray Right
Alumnus Curt Sobel comes to campus and talks about his work on the Oscar-nominated Ray. Learn how Sobel helped Jamie Foxx nail his portrayal of Ray Charles by taking a look at this story from the Boston Globe. (January 2005)

Gary Burton Takes to the Air
The Grammy-winning vibraphonist retired from his role as Berklee senior vice president just a few months ago, but he's wasting no time in beginning a new career, as a radio host with Sirius Satellite Radio. Read more about Gary Burton's new endeavor in Jazz Times. (January 26, 2005)

Grammy-Winning Arranger Loves the Classroom
Faculty arranger and bassist Richard Evans reflects on the joys teaching Berklee students. His work will be featured in the Music of Cole Porter, on January 27. Read a profile in the Boston Globe. (January 23, 2005)

Berklee Finds Budding Songwriter in Pakistan
According to the Boston Globe, you don't see many guitar-toting Muslim women in Lahore, Pakistan, but Berklee found a particularly talented one anyway, and awarded her its first-ever Steve Vai online scholarship. Learn more about Arooj Aftab and the Berkleemusic online school in the Globe's Sunday arts section. (January 16, 2005)

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