Visiting Artist Events

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.

 Visiting artist events are not open to the public. Log in with your OnePass to see a list of upcoming events.

Event Dates
Canceled
Berk Recital Hall (1A)
1140 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Grammy Award–winning musician Matt Rollings '86 will share his expertise as a producer, songwriter, arranger, and composer. 

Event Dates
Berk Recital Hall (1A)
1140 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Bass icon Stanley Clarke will conduct an open master class on the ingredients that made him a pioneering virtuoso doubler on both acoustic and electric bass, including what he studied, what he assigns students, and how to make the transition from each. 


Hosted by Berklee's Bass Department and Steve Bailey.

Admission
Free
Event Dates
David Friend Recital Hall (DFRH)
921 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02115
United States

Bass legend and entrepreneur Marcus Miller on the obvious and not-so-obvious ingredients to achieve triple-scale status, writing and production credits, and Grammys. 
 

Admission
Free
Event Dates
Berk Recital Hall (1A)
1140 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten are all innovators and major forces in the music world. Hear about the ins and outs of joining forces and touring the world as a bass trio, what led to it, and why.

Admission
Free
Presented By
Africana Studies Department
Event Dates
Venue Title
Room B41
150 Mass Ave
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Master class conducted by musicologist Edis Sánchez.

Event Dates
Oliver Colvin Recital Hall (1W)
1140 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Flutist Claudia Anderson's newest project, Glass Ceilings, commissioned several high-profile women composers and flutists to write pieces for flute(s) solo and electronic media, with its originating theme of gender inequality expanded to embrace the effects of COVID-19 and racial tensions of 2020.

Admission
Free
Event Dates
Oliver Colvin Recital Hall (1W)
1140 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

The Brass Department presents a Brass Showcase faculty clinic.

Admission
Free
Event Dates
Berk Recital Hall (1A)
1140 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Progressive metal guitar virtuoso Tosin Abasi performs his compositions and discusses his concepts on developing innovative guitar techniques, composition, and one's own voice.

Admission
Free
Event Dates
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Join us for a collaborative concert of instrumental and vocal music by groundbreaking composer Florence Price on the occasion of her birthday. The concert will feature performances by faculty from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Berklee College of Music, as well as guest artists from the Castle of Our Skins Chamber Ensemble. 

Admission
FREE
Event Dates
Red Room at Cafe 939
939 Boylston Street
Boston
Massachusetts
02115
United States

Deeply meditative ragas. Beautifully intricate rhythms. Soaring flights of melodic exploration. Intuitive improvisational interplay. This adventurous and unique collaboration features masters Priyank Krishna and Phil Scarff of the modern saxophone performing the intricacies of this centuries-old Indian art form.

Admission
Free

Past Visiting Artist Events

Event Dates
David Friend Recital Hall (DFRH)
921 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02115
United States

Andalusian singer, producer, arranger, and guitarist Diego Guerrero will be accompanied by percussionist Nasrine Rahmani, who will explain and demonstrate the rhythmic structures of some of the characteristic “palos” with palmas and on the flamenco cajón.

Event Dates
Red Room at Cafe 939
939 Boylston Street
Boston
Massachusetts
02115
United States

In this master class Mónica Giraldo, a singer-songwriter from Colombia, will perform some of her original songs from her six albums. 

Event Dates
Berk Recital Hall (1A)
1140 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Catalan singer-songwriter Judit Neddermann has released five critically acclaimed albums since 2014. In this master class, she will share her creative songwriting process and career insights, which have included collaborations with such celebrated artists as Alejandro Sanz and Joan Manual Serrat. 

Event Dates
Berk Recital Hall (1A)
1140 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Public interview with Q&A with Edmundson Visiting Artist Matthew Aucoin.
 

Event Dates
Berk Recital Hall (1A)
1140 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Critically acclaimed saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis presents a workshop focused on extended techniques, multiphonics, and their use in improvisation and melody.

Event Dates
Berk Recital Hall (1A)
1140 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Critically acclaimed saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis presents a trio. Featuring Berklee students Stefan Dresler, bass and Mattia Muller, drums.

Event Dates
David Friend Recital Hall (DFRH)
921 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02115
United States

Berklee Peru and the Latin American Association of Berklee Students announces an upcoming virtual master class with Peruvian artist ZAV, where he will be presenting some traditional rhythms and styles from Peru, performed by Berklee students.

Event Dates
Red Room at Cafe 939
939 Boylston Street
Boston
Massachusetts
02115
United States

JNTHN STEIN is a recording artist, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Oakland, California, and now based in Los Angeles. 

Event Dates
Berk Recital Hall (1A)
1140 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Conversation with bassist and alumni Jeni Magana. Magana is the current bassist for renown indie artist Mitski.

Moderated by David Marvuglio of the Bass Department.

Event Dates
Canceled
Berk Recital Hall (1A)
1140 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Grammy Award–winning musician Matt Rollings '86 will share his expertise as a producer, songwriter, arranger, and composer.