Visiting Artist Events

Performers, engineers, and music business professionals are among the industry experts who visit Berklee to offer clinics and master classes about the business and art of making, recording, promoting, and composing music. Often only open to the college community, these visits are opportunities for Berklee students and faculty to get an intimate and inside perspective of the industry.

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Guest Artist: Andrew Garland in Recital
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Boston Conservatory at Berklee presents a recital featuring American baritone Andrew Garland.

Admission
FREE
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Artistry in Action: String Masters Series—Curtis Stewart, Violin
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Hailed for his ability to translate stories of American self-determination to the concert stage, six-time Grammy-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart presents a recital of celebrated and original works as part of the String Masters Series.

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Artistry in Action: Piano Masters Series—Sean Chen in Recital
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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American pianist Sean Chen achieved international celebrity in 2013, after receiving the Bronze Medal at the Cliburn International Competition and winning the American Piano Award.

Admission
FREE
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Artistry in Action: Piano Masters Series—Sean Chen Master Class
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Piano Masters Series guest artist Sean Chen presents a master class to Boston Conservatory students. This event is free and open to the public.

Admission
FREE
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Artistry in Action: String Masters Series—Michael Casimir, Viola
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Acclaimed violist Michael Casimir joins Boston Conservatory’s String Masters Series along with frequent guest pianist Tae Kim, to offer an exciting recital of works for viola and piano.

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Guest Artist: Lamnth Performs Student Works
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Guest ensemble Lamnth (Lilit Hartunian, violin, and Nicholas Tolle, cimbalom) presents a concert of new works by Boston Conservatory composition students.

Admission
FREE
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Opera Innovators Series: Master Class with Brenda Rae, Soprano
Boston Lyric Opera + Community Studios
15 Channel Center St
Boston
MA
02210
United States
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Acclaimed soprano Brenda Rae will lead a master class with Boston Conservatory at Berklee students as part of the Opera Innovators Series.

Admission
FREE
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Artistry in Action: Piano Masters Series—Terrence Wilson in Recital
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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American pianist Terrence Wilson enjoys an active international concert career. A Grammy nominee and recipient of the Avery Fisher Grant, he has performed with the National Symphony as well as the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, San Francisco, and St. Louis, and the orchestras of Cleveland, Minnesota, and Philadelphia, as well as at the Verbier Festival and Lincoln Center.

Admission
FREE
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Artistry in Action: Piano Masters Series—Terrence Wilson Master Class
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Piano Masters Series guest artist Terrence Wilson presents a master class to Boston Conservatory students. This event is free and open to the public.

Admission
FREE
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Churchill Competition
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Boston Conservatory at Berklee Piano Students compete in the Churchill Piano Competition for the chance to win a one-year scholarship prize.

Admission
FREE

Past Visiting Artist Events

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Graduate Vocal Pedagogy Guest Residency: Lecture and Master Class
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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The graduate vocal pedagogy program will be joined by an esteemed guest for a lecture and master class.

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Graduate Vocal Pedagogy Guest Residency: Master Class
Houston Hall—8 Fenway, Floor 1

The graduate vocal pedagogy program will be joined by an esteemed guest for a master class.

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Opera Innovators Series: Master Class with Maestro Riccardo Frizza
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Vocal Arts Department presents a master class led by Maestro Riccardo Frizza, one of the leading Italian conductors of his generation.

Dinara Klinton, a woman with long black hair and in a blue glitter dress, is holding her hands up with palms facing the camera, pressed against a clear glass wall, and looking up to the sky.
Artistry in Action: Piano Masters Series—Dinara Klinton Master Class
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Piano Masters Series guest artist Dinara Klinton presents a master class to Boston Conservatory students. This event is free and open to the public.

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Artistry in Action: Piano Masters Series—Dinara Klinton in Recital
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Since winning the Busoni Competition at age 18, Ukrainian pianist Dinara Klinton has established herself as an exciting virtuoso. Her Boston debut recital will consist of piano fantasies by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, and Scriabin.

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Artistry in Action: String Masters Series—Leland Ko, Cello, and Adria Ye, Piano
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Cellist Leland Ko is a first-prize winner of the Concours Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Concert Artists Guild Louis and Susan Meisel Competition, and the Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition. Ko will be joined by pianist Adria Ye in a program of works by Bach, Boulanger, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Messiaen, and Fauré.

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Hinge Quartet: BRIGHT
Studio 106
132 Ipswich Street (Richard Ortner Studio Building), Floor 1—Studio 106
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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Hinge Quartet presents BRIGHT. This energetic program includes music by Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Caroline Mallonee, and John Mayrose alongside Louis Andriessen’s modern warhorse “Hout” and Klaus Lang’s engulfing “bright darkness (night).”

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Opera Innovators Series: Master Class with Norman Garrett, Baritone
Studio T401 (Boston Conservatory at Berklee)
31 Hemenway Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Boston Conservatory at Berklee welcomes acclaimed baritone Norman Garrett for a master class, as part of the Opera Innovators Series.

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Guest Artist: Lamnth Presents Mischa Salkind-Pearl’s Album Release Party
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Guest ensemble Lamnth (Lilit Hartunian, violin, and Nicholas Tolle, cimbalom) presents an album release concert of music by Mischa Salkind-Pearl, chair of composition, contemporary music, and core studies.

Photo of Yessaï Karapetian playing a piano and keyboard with each hand. He has long curly black hair, a beard, and glasses.

Yessaï Karapetian

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The Gathering with Guest Yessaï Karapetian
Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice Forum Room
1249 Boylston St, room 130
Boston
MA
02215
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The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice welcomes Yessaï Karapetian, a multi-instrumentalist with an ambitiously wide approach to contemporary jazz.