Results for "Berklee College of Music"

Whitney Marchelle Jackson

Born: March 23, 1960

Whitney Marchelle is a Internationally distributed recording and performance artist in Jazz, Pop,and Blues. Performances in 5 Star Hotels,Festivals, award winning venues like Carnegie Hall (New York Jazz Academy,United Nations, The Velvet Note (GA),Minton's Harlem,Jazz Foundation Events, NYC Blue Note,and Cotton Club to name a few. Over 30 years experience. see. www.whitneymarchelle.com National commercials under her belt including Spike Lees State Farm Insurance. Write-ups in New York NETWORK JOURNAL, Jazztimes, Jazziz, NYC Times,City Newspaper,Maxx Myricks's Maxx House , NYCHot House

Ray Seol

Born: December 1, 1973

Ray Seol is an Associate Professor of Professional Music and a Fulbright Scholar, as well as a distinguished jazz bassist and producer. He began shaping his musical identity at The New School’s School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City, studying under legendary bassists Reggie Workman and Buster Williams.

His ability to fuse sound and color through synesthesia led to pioneering work in sonic visualization, developed during his master’s studies in music technology at New York University. This concept evolved into Interactive Jazz: Jazz as a New Visual Art, which has been showcased in galleries across New York and Seoul.

Since 2007, he has released five studio albums and performed at major international jazz festivals, collaborating with artists such as Jason Moran, Marta Gómez, Scott Robinson, Art Hirahara, and Takuya Kuroda

Noah Allen

Noah Allen is a trumpet player, composer, songwriter, and producer from Uxbridge, Massachusetts. He began his musical journey in church, first playing drums at the age of four before picking up the trumpet at eight. It was in that same church setting where he honed his ear, learned to read music, and began composing.

Over the past six years, Allen has been an active presence in the Providence and Boston music scenes. In 2023, he was featured on Love & the Catalyst by Aimée Allen—an album nominated for Best Vocal Jazz Album at the NAACP Image Awards. That same summer, Allen joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Sean Jones, touring Europe and performing at renowned venues including Carnegie Hall and London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Marc Gratama

Born: July 23, 1968

Born in the Netherlands, Marc Gratama started playing drums at the age of 9. In 1982, he and his family moved to Iowa City, Iowa. During his time in Iowa he performed and recorded extensively as part of the Iowa City music scene. After having studied classical percussion at the University of Iowa, Marc transferred to Berklee College of Music to focus on his drumset playing and graduated in 1997.

During his five years as a Boston resident Marc was very active on the East Coast music scene, performing in Boston, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Martha’s Vineyard and New York with steady projects, recordings and freelance work. In New York he performed with Cuba Gooding and the Main Ingredient. Cuba Gooding wrote and recorded the popular song “Everybody Plays the Fool” which was later covered by Aaron Neville of the Neville Brothers. Apart from his musical endeavors in Boston, Marc performed with various rock groups, funk groups, jazz small groups and Big Bands in the United States, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Hungary. Marc has performed with many well established musicians including Phil Wilson, Hal Crook, Steve La Spina, John Abercrombie, George Garzone, and Jerry Bergonzi. He also toured and recorded with Bergonzi for the Swedish X-Records label in the fall of ’94 and the Dutch A-Records label in the fall of ’95. Marc then went on to perform and record with the Boston fusion power trio Neptune Ensemble for the Hi-Test records label. In August of 1998, Marc moved back to Holland, where he was in high demand as a freelance drummer. He was a member of the Max Vax Trio, performing at the 1999 Iowa City Jazz Festival, and played with such European notables as Jazz tenor saxophonist Dick de Graaf, bassists Bobby Jacobs, Theo de Jong, Hein van der Geyn, Jean Louis Rassinfosse, as well as Hans “Big Boy” Dulfer and Dutch trumpet player Saskia Laroo. While in the Netherlands, Marc played drums on a solo album by Debbie Sledge, one of the famous 70’s “Sister Sledge” disco queens. He was also part of the Amalgam Jazz Quartet, and recorded a CD with them In May of 2001.

Jim Lucchese Named Berklee’s Fifth President

July 28, 2024

Berklee has announced that Jim Lucchese, a pioneering music industry executive and a dedicated artist advocate will become its fifth president, effective January 1, 2025. Lucchese brings to this role 20 years of experience innovating artist-focused services. A Boston-born musician who has served Berklee in many advisory roles over the course of his career, Lucchese is ...

Devin Daniels

A recent graduate of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Studies, Inglewood-native Devin Daniels is one of the most unique and exciting voices in LA's thriving the modern jazz scene. African American Alto Saxophonist Devin Daniels has performed in many different configurations of bands in the jazz idiom since 2010. Hailing from Inglewood, California, Daniels started playing saxophone in the Just Lovin’ Music Studios program, led by pianist Michelle Love. This program is a free program designed to give students of color a chance to rent out and learn a new instrument

Ferran Rico

Born: January 23, 1999

Between head-nodding grooves and meaningful melodies, Ferran’s music brings together contemporary jazz with central European harmony, his Mediterranean origin and his love for

the music of the world, with the common denominator of deep roots in improvised Black American Music. Ferran offers a unique, very entertaining yet encompassing show.

Yoshie Nakayama

Born: March 24, 1980

Yoshie Nakayama, a music producer, trombonist, and singer, is known for co-founding Songs for World Peace, a global initiative leveraging music to promote world peace. 

Her a cappella composition "Sing For You" led the UNIVOZ Vocal Ensemble to win in the Adult category on WBGH’s “Sing That Thing!” and its music video was premiered at the Global Voices Film Festival San Francisco 2021, hosted by UN Women San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.

Her arrangements are housed in the Japanese Library of Congress in Tokyo and are published by Sheet Music Plus, Fairy Inc., and the Jazz Vocalist Society of Japan.

Award-Winning Seoul Pianist Yujung Jung Plays Jazz Around The World

August 10, 2023

Award-Winning Korean Musician Creates Her Own Fusion Genre Yujung Jung, a Korean Music Award-winning pianist and graduate of Dongduk Women’s University, Berklee College of Music and The Berklee Global Jazz Institute in the United States, has been playing at major festivals for two decades, dazzling audiences around the world with her unique jazz, Gospel and K-Pop ...

Michael Fox