Visiting Artist Events

Ahead of his Red Room at Cafe 939 appearance, Kassa Overall visits the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice as a special guest for the Gathering.

Máté Pozsár leads a workshop on the Hungarian free and improvised music scene, based on the work of the Bartók Conservatory Creative Improvisers Youth Orchestra in Budapest, Hungary. 
 

Drummer, producer, educator, and Berklee alum Carlin Muccular will present a drum set clinic entitled the Power of the Groove. In it, he will discuss and demonstrate his wide-ranging influences as a musician and how these have shaped his vision and abilities as an artist. He will demystify the "gospel chops" phenomenon while inspiring drummers to keep the groove their main focus. Students will also have an opportunity to ask questions.

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.

Winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition and the Concert Artists Guild Award, Korean American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee enjoys a thriving career as a soloist and chamber musician. 

Berklee alumnus and multi-Grammy winning pianist and producer Matt Rollings will continue the Piano Roundtable. This is an opportunity for piano students to perform and be critiqued by Rollings and fellow students. All Berklee students are welcome to attend. 
 

Neff Irizarry '96 presents this master class which offers an in-depth analysis of the electric guitar's evolving role as both an accompanist and soloist in Latin jazz. Beginning with its roots in traditional Latin music to the contemporary masters, the class provides clear and practical examples grounded in established precedents, enabling participants to understand and effectively execute the guitar's role in the Latin jazz idiom.

An interdisciplinary portrait concert of music by Ryan Suleiman with musical performance and stage direction by C. Neil Parsons and his colleagues from the Fourth Wall Ensemble, this program embraces and extends the inherent theatricality of musical performance, with an emphasis on nature and the climate crisis. 

Herb Alpert Scholar Jason "J. Rawls" Rawls, J. Rhodes, and Daedelus will be speaking on hip-hop production in an event presented by the Professional Music Department.

Saxophonist and composer Patrick Bartley presents a wide-ranging master class.