Berklee College of Music
The Berklee College of Music is an independent music college in Boston , Massachusetts .
The school currently has 7,000 students. Annual tuition, excluding accommodation, is around $ 43,000, with each applicant automatically applying for a scholarship. Berklee has a high proportion of foreign students; more than 22.8% come from more than 70 countries.
history
Berklee was founded in 1945 by Lawrence Berk as the Schillinger House of Music , named after his teacher Joseph Schillinger . The school's original purpose was to teach the Schillinger composition system. After an expansion of the school's curriculum in 1954, Berk changed the name to Berklee School of Music after his son Lee Berk and in reference to the name of the famous University of Berkeley . When the school received its accreditation in 1973, the name was changed to Berklee College of Music . However, the founder's son and namesake, Lee Berk, never studied music.
At the time of its inception, almost all music schools focused mainly on classical music. The original purpose of Berklee was to provide formal education in jazz , rock, and other contemporary music that was not available in other music schools.
Since the fall semester 2006 all students have to pass an entrance exam. This is a departure from the school's open admission principle that she has used for many years. The admission rate at Berklee College in 2012 was approximately 19%. The entrance examination can also be taken at partner institutions abroad. For the German-speaking area, this is possible at the Jazz & Rock Schools in Freiburg and in Ottobrunn near Munich.
courses
Berklee College offers twelve different degree programs. These are Performance, Composition , Jazz Composition, Music Production and Technology, Film Music , Music Business / Management, Music Synthesis, Contemporary Writing and Producing, Music Education, Songwriting , Music Therapy, and Professional Music.
Teachers include or have included Gary Burton , Steve Swallow , Joanne Brackeen , James Williams , Garrison Fewell, and Esperanza Spalding (who also studied there).
Well-known alumni
The school has a large number of prominent teachers, staff, guest artists and former students. These include roughly (final year in brackets, alphabetically):
- John Abercrombie (jazz guitarist)
- Toshiko Akiyoshi (jazz pianist and big band leader)
- Eric André (Comedian)
- Anjani (singer and pianist)
- John Blackwell (1973 - 2017) (former drummer for Prince )
- Park Bom (singer, former member of the K-pop group 2NE1 )
- Joanne Brackeen
- Gary Burton (jazz vibraphone player and five-time Grammy winner, 1962)
- Terri Lyne Carrington (jazz drummer, 1983)
- Kent Carter (bassist, 1964)
- Vinnie Colaiuta (drummer with Frank Zappa, Sting and many others)
- Flo Dauner (drummer, inter alia with Die Fantastischen Vier )
- Ramin Djawadi (film composer)
- Dave Douglas (jazz trumpeter)
- Adam Dutkiewicz (band leader and guitarist of the metalcore band Killswitch Engage )
- Al Di Meola (Italian-American fusion and jazz guitarist, among others with Return To Forever )
- Melissa Etheridge (1980)
- Kevin Eubanks (1979)
- Donald Fagen (singer, keyboardist / "Steely Dan")
- Avram Fefer (jazz saxophonist)
- Garrison Fewell
- Bill Frisell (jazz guitarist, 1977)
- Ricky Garcia (guitarist from LaFee , 2002)
- Dusko Goykovich (jazz trumpeter)
- Juan Luis Guerra (singer, guitarist and composer )
- Stu Hamm (bassist)
- Jan Hammer ( keyboards )
- Roy Hargrove
- Gabriele Hasler (singer, multi-instrumentalist)
- Laura Jansen (singer, pianist)
- Quincy Jones ( producer and 26-time Grammy winner, 1951)
- Julian Joseph (jazz pianist)
- Kizzy (singer, songwriter, actress and presenter)
- Martin Koller (jazz guitarist)
- Diana Krall ( jazz pianist and singer, 1983)
- Cornelius Claudio Kreusch ( jazz pianist , producer and composer, 1994)
- Alexander Kuhn , saxophonist
- Wang Lee-Hom (musician, composer, record producer)
- Joe Lovano (jazz saxophonist, 1972)
- Natalie Maines (singer of the Dixie Chicks )
- Mike Mangini (drummer of Dream Theater )
- Aimee Mann (singer, songwriter, bassist and guitarist)
- Michael Manring ( bassist )
- Charlie Mariano (jazz saxophonist)
- Branford Marsalis (jazz saxophonist, 1980)
- John Mayer (pop and blues guitarist)
- Brad Mehldau (jazz pianist)
- George Mraz
- John Myung (bassist from Dream Theater )
- Pat Metheny (jazz fusion guitarist)
- Greg Osby
- Mikko Henrik Julius Paananen (bass player from HIM )
- Henning Pauly ( YouTube host "EytschPi42", founder of Frameshift , 2000)
- Danilo Pérez (1988)
- John Petrucci (guitarist from Dream Theater )
- Mika Pohjola (jazz pianist and composer)
- Mike Portnoy (former Dream Theater drummer )
- Psy (Park Jae-sang, singer)
- Charlie Puth (singer, songwriter)
- Josef Resl (drummer, composer)
- JR Rotem (music producer)
- John Scofield (jazz guitarist, 1973)
- Christian Scott (jazz trumpeter)
- Alan Silvestri (film music composer)
- Dave Samuels (jazz vibraphonist , founding member of "Steps Ahead")
- Maria Scheiblhuber (harpist)
- Howard Shore (film composer and conductor , 1969)
- Steve Slagle
- Steve Smith (drummer at Journey, Vital Information, Steps Ahead)
- Tommy Smith (saxophonist and teacher)
- Esperanza Spalding
- Oliver Steller (reciter and musician)
- Mike Stern (jazz guitarist)
- Joel Stroetzel (guitarist of the metalcore band Killswitch Engage)
- Steve Swallow
- Susan Tedeschi (singer and guitarist of the Tedeschi Trucks Band)
- Jacky Terrasson (jazz pianist)
- Brian Transeau (BT) ( trance artist)
- Hiromi Uehara (jazz pianist)
- Steve Vai (guitarist)
- Emil Viklický (pianist)
- Miroslav Vitouš (bassist)
- Titus Vollmer (film composer, guitarist, 2000)
- Klaus Wagenleiter (jazz pianist, 1982)
- Jack Walrath
- Hiroshi Watanabe (musician) ( trance artist)
- Dave Weckl (fusion drummer)
- Brad Whitford ( Aerosmith guitarist )
- James Williams
- Geoff Zanelli (film composer)
- Joe Zawinul (jazz pianist, composer, founding member of Weather Report )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2018–2019 academic year https://www.berklee.edu/about/facts-and-statistics
- ^ Berklee College, Cost of Attendance
- ↑ a b Collegedata
- ↑ Berklee students like Toshiko Akiyoshi came into contact with the system there until the 1960s. The system was later no longer taught in Berklee
- ↑ Reinhardt Haydn: HIM - His Infernal Majesty. Plexus Publishing, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-85965-392-3 , p. 27, M. Paananen also known as Migé, attended Berklee College of Music in Boston for one summer.
- ↑ (c) Henning Pauly, design by Tobias Kunz: Henning Pauly.com. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
- ↑ MUSIC Group - TC Electronic | Artist specific page. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
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