Full Calendar of Events at the Berklee Performance Center

The Chinese New Year Concert is an annual celebration of the Chinese New Year. In its eleventh year, the concert will include Chinese hit music from a variety of genres, as well as dance and other types of live performance.

The incomparable Cécile McLorin Salvant returns, fresh off the heels of becoming a 2020 MacArthur Genius and Doris Duke Artist Award recipient—two of the most coveted recognitions in art.

This concert will celebrate the life and work of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis (1925-2021). Theodorakis is one the major figures of Greek art music, who successfully married poetry with music for more than 50 years, creating an aesthetic product of high artistic and emotional value.

Moods of Her is a generational exploration of songs and words from women artists and activists who have helped propel music forward.

Daymé Arocena will perform a blend of traditional Santerían chant, jazz stylings, contemporary R&B influences, and Afro-Cuban music with Berklee students. 

Berklee's International Folk Festival brings together the college's diverse community for a performance featuring various traditional musical cultures from around the world.

This concert will feature all of the premier a cappella groups at Berklee College of Music: On the Vox, Pitch Slapped, Treble Threat, and Upper Structure.

Anaïs Mitchell, the esteemed singer-songwriter whose Broadway smash Hadestown won eight awards—including Best Musical—at the 2019 Tony Awards, is joined on this one-of-a-kind tour by folk supergroup trio Bonny Light Horseman.

The International Championship of Collegiate A Capella is the only international tournament that showcases student—and now professional—a cappella singing. This event will feature top collegiate groups from the Northeast region competing for the title of International Champion. 

Join us for a tribute concert honoring the inaugural Berklee Legacy Awardees—legendary artists Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Joseph Douglass, and Carmen de Lavallade. 

In A Tribute to Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul, Damien Sneed pays homage to the icon with fresh renditions of hits including "Respect," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Natural Woman," "Knew You Were Waiting," "Precious Memories," "Think," "Until You Come Back to Me," "Daydreaming," "Freeway," and others.

The International Championship of Collegiate A Capella is the only international tournament that showcases student—and now professional—a cappella singing. This event will feature top collegiate groups from the Northeast region competing for the title of International Champion.

Enjoy the sights and sounds of live music with an international cast of students celebrating the artistry and songwriting prowess of Taylor Swift. Produced by Maureen McMullan ’09, this concert will feature a diverse array of Berklee’s most outstanding vocalists, instrumentalists, arrangers, and track producers as they interpret some of Swift’s most popular songs. 

Berklee's Music Business/Management and Professional Music Departments are joining forces to host a three-part event that features K-pop and the culture of the Korean Wave.

The Mick Goodrick Legacy Concert will feature live performances by his alumni: visiting artists Julian Lage and Wolfgang Muthspiel, and guitar faculty Tim Miller, Randy Roos, David Fiuczynski, Abby Aronson, and Norm Zocher. The show also will include video tributes by special guests Gary Burton and Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Mike and Leni Stern, and Wayne Krantz.

With virtuosity, strength, spirit, and sheer endurance, Yamato displays its breathtaking performance on more than 20 drums, as well as with bronze cymbals, vocals, and bamboo flutes. 

Marisa Monte stormed onto the music scene in her native Brazil in the late 1980’s and has remained center stage ever since. Releasing one wildly successful project after another, this four-time Latin Grammy Award winner is recognized as the greatest Brazilian singer of her generation.

This concert will pay tribute to the music, sound, and artistry of Stevie Wonder.

Celebrating the 13th anniversary of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, this concert will feature top BGJI alumni and student talent performing original compositions with a host of acclaimed faculty and visiting artists, including BGJI Artistic Director Danilo Pérez.

The International Championship of Collegiate A Capella is the only international tournament that showcases student—and now professional—a cappella singing. This event will feature top collegiate groups from the Northeast region competing for the title of International Champion. 

Ídolos Latinos is a musical tribute to the most important Latin American and Spanish artists who—throughout the ages— have inspired and moved the world.

Since the release of Kingfish, his Grammy-nominated 2019 Alligator Records debut, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has quickly become the defining blues voice of his generation.

The Show is a pop music spectacle, an electrifying live production of world-renowned hits, reimagined by an elite group of singers, rappers, arrangers, and instrumentalists from Berklee.

One of Cuba’s most prolific jazz artists, pianist Omar Sosa, and Senegalese kora master Seckou Keita create exquisitely beautiful music that spans jazz, Latin, and African influences.

L. Shankar, renowned for his deeply soulful performances of Indian classical music, is a soloist who has also accompanied many of South India’s leading vocalists. 

Join an eclectic cast of student performers for a thrilling evening of live music celebrating one of the most beloved voices of all time, the living legend Sir Elton John.

The SFJAZZ Collective is a bonafide jazz supergroup, recently named "contemporary jazz's premier all-star band" by The New York Times. 

The 8-Bit Big Band is a Grammy-nominated, genre-bending jazz orchestra formed around the love of video games, their associated soundtracks, and the musical desire to explore and expand an ever-growing contemporary body of music which the group has lovingly dubbed "The Great Video Game Songbook."

The Berklee Beyoncé Ensemble is a large production that captures the essence of HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) culture and aesthetics.

The Berklee Beyoncé Ensemble is a large production that captures the essence of HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) culture and aesthetic.

Latin Grammy Cultural Scholarship recipient and singer-songwriter Nicolle Horbath (from Colombia) joins drummer/music director Emanuel Lewis (from New York) to present “The Dream—Viviendo el Sueño,"  a night when musical dreams come true.

Berklee's Music Business/Management Department will host the Second Annual Business of Gospel Music Symposium, featuring some of the most prominent gospel musicians, executives, and influencers of our time.

Iconic Grammy-winning singer Lila Downs bridges traditions from across the Americas, with influences ranging from the folk and ranchera music of Mexico and South America to North American folk, jazz, blues, and hip-hop.

Featuring a powerhouse band and a dazzling array of theater talent, this concert celebrates the winners of the Curtain Up Musical Theater Songwriting Contest.

Professor Greg Hopkins, director of Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra, leads the BCJO in his farewell concert, having led the ensemble for the past 27 years.

Join us for an original musical adaptation created by Rene Pfister, director of Berklee Theater for Young Audiences.

Mali’s Afropop duo Amadou & Mariam and gospel legends Blind Boys of Alabama share a soul-stirring music that knows no borders. 

The Berklee Symphonic Winds will present its annual spring concert featuring music for winds, brass, and percussion, by female and non-binary composers and arrangers.

Rescheduled from October 25, 2020. Award-winning artist, composer, and producer Ólafur Arnalds is back on the road with new material. After a triumphant return to the stage in 2018, he is completing his final set of shows after nearly three years of touring.

Zucchero, one of Italy's most acclaimed artists, has performed a series of unique concerts throughout the world over the past two years.

Multi-award winning band Clannad fuses elements of traditional Irish music with more contemporary folk, new age, and rock, creating a unique and ethereal sound that combines haunting melodies and mesmerizing vocals.

Cœur de Pirate (French for pirate heart) is the stage name for award-winning French-Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist Béatrice Martin.