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Jim Lucchese Named Berklee’s Fifth President
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 ...
Marcela Bastida: The Keys Of Resilience
In the lush soundscape of jazz fusion, where the essence of music melds with innovation, Marcela Bastida stands as a beacon of creative brilliance and resilience. Despite her legal blindness, Marcela has not only mastered the realms of jazz as an internationally acclaimed pianist and arranger but has also revolutionized assistive music technology for visually impaired ...
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Ferran Rico
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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.
The Mentor: Katherine McVicker
by B.D. Lenz
Like most other industries, the music business has changed radically since the rise of the internet. Nearly every facet has been transformed from the delivery of its product, to its marketing, to the way booking and promotion is handled. Learning to navigate these developments is a challenge for folks in the business, let alone ...
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Eli Block
Eli Block is a versatile trumpet player and educator based in Boston. He performs regularly throughout New England with groups including the BT/ALC Big Band, Dan Gabel and The Abletones, and the Henry Godfrey Jazz Orchestra. He has also performed with the legendary Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Johnny Mathis, Gunhild Carling, and the Grammy-winning 8-Bit Big Band. In November 2022, he was featured as a Visiting Artist at St. Olaf College, where he led two master classes and performed as a featured soloist with the jazz bands.
Block received his Master’s degree in Jazz Performance with academic honors from New England Conservatory in May 2020
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Yoshie Nakayama
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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.
April 18: New England Conservatory Jazz Orchestra Presents 'High Life: The Music Of Wayne Shorter'
Legendary jazz composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who passed away on March 2, 2023, left a monumental artistic legacy. The NEC Jazz Orchestra pays tribute to Shorter with High Life: The Music of Wayne Shorter, the orchestra’s final concert of the season, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 18 in NEC’s Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, ...
April 17: New England Conservatory's Contemporary Musical Arts Dept Reimagines Music Of David Bowie
Hear David Bowie’s music as you’ve never heard it before on Wednesday, April 17 when New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts Department pays tribute to an icon of pop culture in The Music of David Bowie, a program curated by faculty member Lautaro Mantilla in collaboration with Eden MacAdam-Somer and Anthony Coleman. For 50 years, David ...
Internationally Acclaimed Trombonist And Composer Kalia Vandever Joins New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Faculty
New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department has appointed Grammy Award-winning trombonist and composer Kalia Vandever to its faculty beginning in the fall of 2024. Hailed as one of the prominent new voices in jazz trombone, Vandever leans into the challenges of her instrument and allows patience and melody to guide her process. The result is a ...
