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Placido Domingo Awarded Honorary Doctorate
Renowned tenor and international conductor Placido Domingo was awarded an honorary doctor of music degree by Berklee College of Music at its campus in Valencia, Spain on Friday. The event took place at the Teatro Martín i Soler of the Palau de les Arts and was attended by local government officials and dignitaries and Berklee’s Valencia ...
Berklee's Valencia Campus Opens Applications For Its Summer Programs And Launches New Summer Study Abroad
Berklee College of Music has opened the application process for this year’s summer programs to be held at its Valencia campus in the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Spain. This year, Berklee presents a six-week Summer Study Abroad program for the first time, giving undergraduate students from Berklee and other international music institutions the ...
Jazz Band Masterclass Celebrates 10 Years Of Jazz Education
Annapolis, MD – This is the tenth anniversary year for Jazz Band Masterclass, a unique jazz education program for adults launched by internationally respected saxophonist, composer and educator Jeff Antoniuk. Begun in the back room of 49 West Coffeehouse in Annapolis, the program has steadily expanded through economic ups and downs, providing jazz enrichment to hundreds ...
Music, Mind and Meaning - The Case for the Science of Music
By Diana Hereld of Pathways in Music. Photos by Will Kirk. Recently, at the Music, Mind and Meaning conference at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, one reception conversation was the ever-laden research debate between performers, theorists and scientists. While many consider it their duty as scientists to push the cognitive and neurological ...
Guitar Legend Robben Ford Announces Guitar Dojo Camp with Sonny Landreth
Few guitarists have simultaneously shattered the boundaries of blues guitar with the eloquence and melodic invention of Robben Ford and slide guitar visionary Sonny Landreth. From August 4 – 8, 2014, at the elegantly rustic Full Moon Resort in the Catskill Forest Preserve (about 30 miles west of Woodstock, N.Y.), enthusiasts and guitarists of all skill ...
Litchfield Jazz Camp Registration Now Open!
Celebrate 18 years of Litchfield Jazz Camp at our new location, Canterbury School in New Milford, CT. Register by next Saturday, February 8 to get a special EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT. Sibling, loyalty and full combo discounts available too. Music Director Don Braden and Director of Operations Albert Rivera lead a star studded faculty through out the ...
Berklee Student To Perform With Carole King At MusiCares Person Of The Year Ceremony In King’s Honor
When multi-GRAMMY winner Carole King takes the stage at the MusiCares Person of the Year ceremony in her honor, she will be accompanied on one song by Berklee College of Music student Ahmad El Haggar from Egypt. They will perform a Middle Eastern-style version of the music legend’s song “Home Again.” The new arrangement was written ...
Johnny Carisi: Jazz Workshop
Some of the smartest and most innovative East Coast jazz recordings made in the mid-1950s were for RCA's short-lived Jazz Workshop series. They albums were recorded just as the 10-inch LP began to fade and were replaced by 12-inch discs. The larger album had been used for classical music since 1948, when the LP was first ...
Herbie Hancock Appointed 2014 Norton Professor Of Poetry At Harvard
“I’ve uncovered practical lessons and learned that the essential values in jazz and the values of Buddhism are harmonious and apply to my life on every level. Throughout my lectures, I will be interweaving and connecting these ideas.” — Herbie Hancock Los Angeles, California and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Always at the forefront of world culture, technology, business ...
Jazz Arts Group's PBJ & Jazz Series To Feature Master Blues Guitarist Sean Carney
Columbus, OH - International Blues Challenge (IBC) winner and Albert King Best Guitarist Award-winner Sean Carney returns to the Lincoln Theatre on January 11, 2014 for a blues-rockin’ PBJ & Jazz concert presented by the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) and Bob Evans Farms. Due to popular demand, this year’s season will continue to include ...
