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Camilo Makes Week-long Visit as Herb Alpert Visiting Professor March 7 - 11
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BOSTON, MA, February 28, 2005 — Piano giant Michel Camilo, in a week-long visit to Berklee College of Music as Herb Alpert Visiting Professor, will present a concert with saxophonist Joe Lovano '72, Wednesday, March 9 at 8:15 p.m. in the Berklee Performance Center. All proceeds will benefit the Michel Camilo Scholarship Fund, which makes college possible for young people from Latin America needing financial support. Tickets for the concert are $20 general public; $15 seniors.
Over the last several years, Michel Camilo and Berklee have become more and more closely involved. In 2000, he was given an honorary doctorate of music from the college, in honor of his many contributions to contemporary music, as a performer, composer, and arranger. His scholarship was established in 2002.
Other Herb Alpert Visiting Professors include, pianist/composer Alan Broadbent '69, bassist Abe Laboriel, Sr. '72, guitarist/composer Pat Metheny, and most recently, producer/engineer George Massenburg. The Alpert Professorship was established in 2000 with the support of the Herb Alpert Foundation, the philanthropic organization launched by A&M Records cofounder and seven-time Grammy-winning recording artist Herb Alpert. The Alpert Visiting Professorship Program brings to Berklee a steady stream of world-class performance and music industry leaders, each agreeing to a three-year commitment to Berklee, for two weeks each academic year.
Pianist and composer Michel Camilo was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1954. He composed his first song at age five, studied for 13 years at the National Conservatory and at 16 joined the National Symphony Orchestra. In 1987, he made his debut as a classical conductor with the National Symphony Orchestra. That year, he also won an Emmy Award for his composition, The Goodwill Games Theme, and became the musical director of the Heineken Jazz Festival in his native Dominican Republic, a post he held through 1992. Camilo's 2000 Verve release Spain won Best Latin Jazz Album in the first-ever Latin Grammy Awards. And his 2002 CD Triangulo (Telarc Jazz) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.
Currently one of the most sought-after saxophonists on the jazz scene, Joe Lovano is the first artist to occupy the Gary Burton Chair in Jazz Performance, and has been a highly visible faculty member at Berklee since the fall of 2001. His credits include a host of Grammy nominations, which culminated in a Grammy award in 2000 for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.
Berklee College of Music was founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music was through the study and practice of contemporary music. For over half a century, the college has evolved constantly to reflect the state of the art of music and the music business. With over a dozen performance and nonperformance majors, a diverse and talented student body representing over 70 countries, and a music industry "who's who" of alumni, Berklee is the world's premier learning lab for the music of today — and tomorrow.
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Nick Balkin
Office of Public Information
(617) 747-2247
nbalkin@berklee.edu
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