Sounds of Berklee

By Rob Hochschild March 19, 2011 Sierra Hull's career was already taking off when she landed at Berklee in September 2009. The mandolinist's debut CD was out on Rounder Records and she was on the road more often than not when she accepted a presidential scholarship and enrolled in the college's new artist diploma program. Now in her fourth and final semester at Berklee, Hull recently sat down to t...

Ten-time Grammy winner Bobby McFerrin helped kick off Berklee's 2010–2011 school year with a presentation at the college's Opening Day festivities. The vocal improvisation master turned his keynote speech into an interactive experience, encouraging questions from the audience and pulling faculty, staff, and alumni onto the stage to make music with him. http://www.berklee.edu/news/2665/podcast-insi...

Laurdine Kenneth "Pat" Patrick was an alto and baritone sax player best known for his long association with the progressive musician Sun Ra. After his death, his children—including current Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick—learned their father had left a voluminous collection of photographs, scores, concert programs, teaching notes, and other memorabilia that illustrated not only his own artist...

Episode 3, September 2007 Sounds of Berklee will have a Spanish flavor this month. The new track comes from Conrad Herwig's Sketches of Spain Y Mas, a collection of the trombonist's Latin jazz arrangements of classic Miles Davis compositions. When you listen to Herwig's arrangement of "Seven Steps to Heaven," you'll be getting just a taste of the BeanTown Jazz Festival's free outdoor concert this...

August 2007 Latin jazz is coming your way in this month's installment of Sounds of Berklee. We kicked off the new podcast last month with singer/songwriter Madi Diaz, and we promise something a little different every time a new tune goes out. If you subscribe, you'll receive a free track each month recorded by a Berklee-related artist. Listening to musicians in the Berklee community is a great way...

July 13, 2007 You could make a case that she's already ahead of Bob Dylan. After all, the iconic songwriter was 22 years old when he played the Newport Folk Festival for the first time in 1963. Fifth-semester student Madi Diaz, who will open for Linda Ronstadt at this year's festival in early August, is only 21.

By Mike Keefe-Feldman November 5, 2013 The musical theater program at Berklee has recently been expanding exponentially, and one of the driving forces behind that expansion is Berklee Voice Department instructor Rene Pfister, who directs many of Berklee’s musical theater productions. This semester, those productions include the Halloween spectacular BPC Screams!, the hit musical Footloose, and a B...