Performers, engineers, and music business professionals are among the industry experts who visit Berklee to offer clinics and master classes about the business and art of making, recording, promoting, and composing music. Often only open to the college community, these visits are opportunities for Berklee students and faculty to get an intimate and inside perspective of the industry.
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The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice is hosting another Gathering, this time with artist-in-residence Ledisi and founder/artistic director Terri Lyne Carrington! Both are powerhouse creatives, with tremendous success in many genres including jazz, soul, and R&B.
The Gathering is an ongoing series presented by the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Events are open to the greater Berklee community and public, and feature performances, guest lectures, workshops, and discussions—all with gender and racial equity as a guiding principle.
Admission
Free
Ledisi stands with BSI Ambassadors and Program Advisor Savannah McLean after her Q&A session in May 2023.
Image courtesy of the artist
Presented By
The Black Scholars Initiative and The Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice
Join us for an unforgettable evening of music and insight as alumni and Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation Recipient Nicolle Horbath with Latin Grammy and Grammy–nominee AleMor and manager Wizzmer share expertise on independent artists' management, music business, finances, and the art of co–creation. They will take us behind the making process of AleMor’s acclaimed Beautiful Humans album which has been nominated for a Grammy and Latin Grammy. Discover a new perspective on the music industry—one that celebrates collaboration and sharing over competition.
Admission
Free
Past Visiting Artist Events
Presented By
The Black Scholars Initiative, Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, Ensembles
This event is an exclusive Q&A for BSI and Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice students to learn from Braxton Cook about navigating a career after school.
In this master class, the New York Gypsy All Stars will present their music, fusion concepts, as well as a Q&A with the Berklee Middle Eastern Fusion Ensemble.
Acclaimed bassist and Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice faculty member Linda May Han Oh will join us for this next Gathering! Oh has had tremendous success as one of New York City's best bassists. Her own albums have received extensive critical praise, and she has won numerous awards including a Grammy, the 2018-2021 Bassist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist’s Association, and 2022 Bassist of the Year in Jazztimes. She has also performed as a sideman with artists such as Pat Metheny, Kenny Barron, Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, Terri Lyne Carrington, Steve Wilson, Geri Allen, and Vijay Iyer.
The Gathering is an ongoing series presented by the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Events are open to the greater Berklee community and public, and feature performances, guest lectures, workshops, and discussions—all with gender and racial equity as a guiding principle.
This master class is directed to musicians, composers, and arrangers that want to expand their musical vocabulary by learning elements of son jarocho, traditional music from Veracruz, Mexico.
Departure Duo (featuring guest artists Nina Guo, soprano, and Eddie Kass, double bass) presents a vibrant program of new music for their unique instrumentation.
Fire Jelly, the follow up to Lunar Crush (1994), featuring John Medeski and Calvin Weston and directed by David Fiuczynski, will perform and workshop microtonal compositions, solo, and comping concepts with students. This is event is hosted by the Planet MicroJam Institute.
This master class by "Los Nuñez" is a review of the craft of these two individuals: Pavel Núñez from the Dominican Republic and Miguel Nuñez from Cuba, whose skills, despite being related to music, are very different.
Celebrated harpist Brandee Younger will join the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice for this week's Gathering!
Younger is known for infusing classical, jazz, soul, and funk influences with the harp tradition, pioneered by her predecessors and idols Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. Younger leads her own ensemble, performs as a soloist, and has worked as a sideman for such musicians as Pharoah Sanders, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Ravi Coltrane, and Reggie Workman. She has also collaborated with popular artists including Lauryn Hill, John Legend, Common, The Roots, and Moses Sumney.
Don't miss this opportunity for a Q&A with this incredible artist!
The Gathering is an ongoing series presented by the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Events are open to the greater Berklee community and public, and feature performances, guest lectures, workshops, and discussions—all with gender and racial equity as a guiding principle. This Gathering is being conducted in partnership with the Berklee String Department.
Rhythm and rhythmic skills, along with the hearing skills needed to control your performance, are key skills in drumming education. But how do you create and generate ideas? And how can you educate yourself (and your students) to develop improved rhythmic abilities? This clinic will offer a structured, in-depth approach using perspectives from the realms of world music (including African and Carnatic influences), Swiss/French rudiments, and fresh approaches to use these inspirational sources.
