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Why Are You Looking Forward to Summer Programs?
December 7, 2020

Many students who enrolled in last year's remote summer programs have enrolled for next summer's on-campus experience. Here they tell us what brought them back. 

Bukola Balogun

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Meet Five City Music Scholars Attending Five-Week This Summer
June 24, 2020

Berklee awarded full-tuition scholarships to 60 young musicians taking part in the college’s flagship summer program.

From the left: Jacob Collier, Esperanza Spalding B.M. '05, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Victor Wooten

Berklee Offers First Online Five-Week Program
June 22, 2020

This year's Five-Week program features visiting artists Jacob Collier, Esperanza Spalding, Victor Wooten, and Terri Lyne Carrington, Christian McBride, Gerald Clayton, Kris Davis, and Linda May Han Oh.

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Berklee Announces First Gospel Summer Program
November 14, 2019

The five-day performance program brings together gospel's traditions with its contemporary cultural relevance, and will take place August 17–21, 2020.

Shalmali Kholgade

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India's Rising Stars Shine at Berklee Summer Program
August 15, 2019

Bollywood star Shalmali Kholgade and singer Pooja Tiwari added technical skills to their natural talents.

Left to right: Berklee President Roger H. Brown, Dylan Verge, Aliyah Taylor, Malachi Lewis, Diji Diallo, Gregory Cyres Jr., Thomas Cooke, Zhane Brown, Angelina Boticelli, Hazel Royer, and Krystal Banfield, vice president of outreach and social entrepreneurship

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Berklee City Music Awards Nine Four-Year, Full-Tuition Scholarships
August 7, 2019

The presentation took place at the Berklee City Music Scholarship Concert on August 6, at the end of Aspire: Five-Week Music Performance Intensive. 

Jackie Foster performing at Singers Showcase: A Tribute to Elvis Presley at the Berklee Performance Center on April 6, 2017.

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Student Jackie Foster Advances on The Voice
March 26, 2018

Jackie Foster, an eighth-semester student who got her start at Berklee by attending the Five-Week Summer Performance Program, impresses judges on The Voice. 

Khiyon Hursey B.M. '14

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From Berklee to Hamilton: Khiyon Hursey Shares Broadway Experiences with Students
September 29, 2017

Khiyon Hursey B.M. '14, a New York City-based songwriter and musical theater composer who has worked on the Broadway productions of Hamilton and Witness Uganda, recently visited the weeklong summer Musical Theater Intensive program at Berklee.

Lori McKenna, back-to-back Grammy winner for Best Country Song, recently spoke to students in the Songwriting Workshop, one of Berklee’s many summer programs.

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Grammy Winner Lori McKenna to Summer Students: ‘Music Has Given So Much Back to Me’
August 17, 2017

From Boston to Nashville, multiple Grammy-winner Lori McKenna, one of the most successful storytellers in the music business, shares her musical journey with Berklee’s summer Songwriting Workshop students.

Hit songwriter Claude Kelly B.M. '02 speaks to students in Berklee's Songwriting Workshop summer program.

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Hit Songwriter and Alumnus Claude Kelly Imparts Knowledge to Summer Songwriting Students
July 28, 2017

Students in Berklee’s summer Songwriting Workshop glean valuable insights from Claude Kelly B.M. ‘02, who has written songs for artists such as Bruno Mars, Whitney Houston, and many more.

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