Under the direction of Ayn Inserto, assistant chair of the Harmony and Jazz Composition Department, and Professor Randy Pingrey, the Berklee Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra will perform original student works and arrangements.

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Berklee Jazz Composers' Workshop Concert

David Friend Recital Hall

Come join Associate Professor Rene Pfister's vocal master class for an evening of original songs written during the semester, featuring students self-accompanying and singing on both guitar and piano.

Rene Pfister's Vocal Master Class

The Red Room at Cafe 939

Soyeon Kate Lee is on the piano faculty at the Juilliard School of Music and the Bowdoin International Summer Piano Festival. She formerly was professor at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and is in great demand for master classes around the world.

Artistry in Action: Piano Masters Series—Soyeon Kate Lee Master Class

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Corey Hamm is professor of piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His students have won numerous prizes and awards, including first prize in the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition.

Artistry in Action: Piano Masters Series—Corey Hamm Master Class

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Corey Hamm is one of the world's foremost champions of contemporary piano music. For Piano Masters, he will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the spectacular The People United Will Never Be Defeated! by Frederic Rzewski, about which the composer exclaimed, “This may be the best recording!”

Artistry in Action: Piano Masters Series—Corey Hamm

Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Vocal Arts Department welcomes back baritone Roderick Williams, OBE, to present a voice master class with students. Williams is one of the UK’s most sought-after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recitals, encompassing repertoire from the baroque to world premieres.

Roderick Williams Voice Master Class

As First Associate Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2011, he was regularly featured as soloist at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl in repertoire spanning the 17th to the 21st centuries. Prior to this position, he was a member of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony. He has appeared as guest concertmaster with the orchestras of Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Houston, Ottawa, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon.

Nathan Cole Violin Master Class

New England Conservatory

NEC's newest piano faculty member will give a master class.

Master Class with Pianist Minsoo Sohn

André Laplante, who in 2005 was honored to be named an Officer of the Order of Canada, garnered international attention after winning prizes at the Geneva and Sydney international piano competitions, then capturing the silver medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Critics have compared him with Ashkenazy, Horowitz and Rudolph Serkin, placing him in the elite circle of virtuoso pianists who do not hesitate to take risks.

André Laplante Piano Master Class

Twenty-five-year-old Japanese pianist Yukine Kuroki has been taking the piano world by storm. In a one-year period, she won first prize in the Liszt Utrecht Competition (2022) and the Dublin International Competition (2022), and third prize in the Rubinstein Competition in Israel (2023). Now performing worldwide, her concerts this season include Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Verbier Festival, and the Concertgebouw. As part of the Piano Masters Series, she will lead a master class with Boston Conservatory students.

Artistry in Action: Piano Masters Series—Yukine Kuroki Master Class

Boston Conservatory at Berklee welcomes celebrated British song pianist Graham Johnson for an art song master class.

Graham Johnson is recognized as one of the world’s leading vocal accompanists, studying at the Royal Academy of Music, London. In 1972 he was the official pianist for Peter Pears’s first master classes at Snape Maltings, which brought him into contact with Benjamin Britten. In 1976, he formed the Songmakers Almanac to explore neglected areas of piano-accompanied vocal music; the founder singers were Dame Felicity Lott, Ann Murray DBE, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, and Richard Jackson.

Art Song Master Class with Graham Johnson

In tonight's concert, student ensembles, coached by members of the Borromeo String Quartet, perform Bartók string quartets.

Borromeo String Quartet + Bartók String Quartet Seminar

Boston Conservatory at Berklee welcomes renowned pianist, master teacher, chamber musician, conductor, and vocal coach Warren Jones to campus for a voice master class on art song. Jones is a former member of the collaborative piano faculty at the Manhattan School of Music. He has served as artist in residence at the Mason Gross School of Music at Rutgers University as well as  New England Conservatory and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. For many years he was the head of the vocal piano program during summers at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.

Warren Jones Voice Master Class

Boston Conservatory at Berklee welcomes Shawn Marie Jeffery, vice president of classical and creatives at UIA Talent Agency, for a master class and discussion.

Opera Innovators Series: Shawn Marie Jeffery

Berklee Peru and the Latin American Association of Berklee Students announces an upcoming virtual master class with Peruvian artist ZAV, where he will be presenting some traditional rhythms and styles from Peru, performed by Berklee students.

Peruvian Artist ZAV Virtual Master Class

Boston Conservatory at Berklee welcomes Dona D. Vaughn, artistic director of Opera Maine, for a voice master class.

Dona D. Vaughn Voice Master Class

Rachel Podger, “the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin” (The Times), has established herself as a leading interpreter of the Baroque and Classical music periods. She was the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize in October 2015, Gramophone Artist of the Year 2018, and Ambassador for REMA’s Early Music Day 2020. A creative programmer, she is the founder and Artistic Director of Brecon Baroque Festival and her ensemble Brecon Baroque. Rachel is Patron for the Continuo Foundation.

Rachel Podger Baroque Violin Masterclass

American mezzo-soprano Sandra Piques Eddy (B.M. '94) presents a master class with Boston Conservatory at Berklee students as part of the Opera Innovators Series. Eddy is a former New England Regional Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a national semifinalist who made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2001. Her Met roles include Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Lola (Cavalleria rusticana), Zulma (L'italiana in Algeri), Rosette (Manon), Mercedes (Carmen), Dragonfly (L'Enfant et les sortilèges), Countess Ceprano (Rigoletto), and Olga (The Merry Widow). Continuing her association with the Met, she more recently appeared as Fiona in Nico Muhly’s Two Boys and sang the Novice and Abbess in Suor Angelica.

Opera Innovators Series: Sandra Piques Eddy Master Class

The Voice Department welcomes baritone Roderick Williams, OBE, for a masterclass. Williams is one of the UK’s most sought-after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recitals, encompassing repertoire from the baroque to world premieres.

Roderick Williams Master Class

Acclaimed pianist Lindsay Garritson presents a master class to Boston Conservatory at Berklee students. This event is free and open to the public.

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