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.

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Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Guest ensemble Lamnth (Lilit Hartunian, violin, and Nicholas Tolle, cimbalom) presents an album release concert of music by Mischa Salkind-Pearl, chair of composition, contemporary music, and core studies.

Admission
FREE
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Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Boston Conservatory at Berklee welcomes acclaimed baritone Norman Garrett for a master class, as part of the Opera Innovators Series.

Admission
FREE
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Studio 106
132 Ipswich Street (Richard Ortner Studio Building), Floor 1—Studio 106
Boston
MA
02115
United States

Hinge Quartet presents BRIGHT. This energetic program includes music by Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Caroline Mallonee, and John Mayrose alongside Louis Andriessen’s modern warhorse “Hout” and Klaus Lang’s engulfing “bright darkness (night).”

Admission
FREE
Event Dates
(EDT)
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Cellist Leland Ko is a first-prize winner of the Concours Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Concert Artists Guild Louis and Susan Meisel Competition, and the Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition. Ko will be joined by pianist Adria Ye in a program of works by Bach, Boulanger, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Messiaen, and Fauré.

Admission
FREE
Event Dates
(EDT)
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Since winning the Busoni Competition at age 18, Ukrainian pianist Dinara Klinton has established herself as an exciting virtuoso. Her Boston debut recital will consist of piano fantasies by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, and Scriabin.

Admission
FREE
Event Dates
(EDT)
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Piano Masters Series guest artist Dinara Klinton presents a master class to Boston Conservatory students. This event is free and open to the public.

Admission
FREE
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Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Vocal Arts Department presents a master class led by Maestro Riccardo Frizza, one of the leading Italian conductors of his generation.

Admission
FREE
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Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Boston Conservatory at Berklee proudly welcomes back to campus American soprano Karen Slack for a vocal arts master class.

Admission
FREE
Event Dates
(EDT)
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Boston Conservatory at Berklee proudly presents Grammy Award winner Karen Slack for an intimate evening of song.

Admission
FREE
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Houston Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 1
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Guitarist Dan Lippel presents a concert of contemporary works for classical guitar.

Admission
FREE

Past Visiting Artist Events

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

Máté Pozsár leads a workshop on the Hungarian free and improvised music scene, based on the work of the Bartók Conservatory Creative Improvisers Youth Orchestra in Budapest, Hungary. 
 

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

Drummer, producer, educator, and Berklee alum Carlin Muccular will present a drum set clinic entitled the Power of the Groove. In it, he will discuss and demonstrate his wide-ranging influences as a musician and how these have shaped his vision and abilities as an artist. He will demystify the "gospel chops" phenomenon while inspiring drummers to keep the groove their main focus. Students will also have an opportunity to ask questions.

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Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Soyeon Kate Lee is on the piano faculty at the Juilliard School of Music and the Bowdoin International Summer Piano Festival. She formerly was professor at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and is in great demand for master classes around the world.

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Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition and the Concert Artists Guild Award, Korean American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee enjoys a thriving career as a soloist and chamber musician. 

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

Berklee alumnus and multi-Grammy winning pianist and producer Matt Rollings will continue the Piano Roundtable. This is an opportunity for piano students to perform and be critiqued by Rollings and fellow students. All Berklee students are welcome to attend. 
 

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

Neff Irizarry '96 presents this master class which offers an in-depth analysis of the electric guitar's evolving role as both an accompanist and soloist in Latin jazz. Beginning with its roots in traditional Latin music to the contemporary masters, the class provides clear and practical examples grounded in established precedents, enabling participants to understand and effectively execute the guitar's role in the Latin jazz idiom.

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Studio 401
31 Hemenway Street, Floor 4—Studio 401
Boston
MA
02215
United States

An interdisciplinary portrait concert of music by Ryan Suleiman with musical performance and stage direction by C. Neil Parsons and his colleagues from the Fourth Wall Ensemble, this program embraces and extends the inherent theatricality of musical performance, with an emphasis on nature and the climate crisis. 

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

Herb Alpert Scholar Jason "J. Rawls" Rawls, J. Rhodes, and Daedelus will be speaking on hip-hop production in an event presented by the Professional Music Department.

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

Saxophonist and composer Patrick Bartley presents a wide-ranging master class.

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

Berklee's Liberal Arts and Sciences Department presents Timeless Ragas, Modern Instruments, a master class and clinic.