Category Archives: Admissions

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India, days 9+10: Auditioning students in Mumbai

February 26, 2010 – 1:50 pm

Film scoring chair Dan Carlin sends his next-to-last dispatch from Berklee’s big trip to India.
Greetings from Chennai, India,
Instead of spending Sunday with our Valentines in and around Boston, my colleagues and I presented four clinics and a panel to interested musicians and students at the Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumbai (or, Bombay, as most of [...]

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Panama Jazz Festival Fantastic Voyage 2010

January 12, 2010 – 2:50 pm

When I boarded the plane in the cold, dreary northeast the song “Here comes the sun” entered my mind more than a couple times. I was headed to Panama for the official unveiling of a top secret new initiative, conceived by Grammy award winning jazz pianist Danilo Perez, to be housed at Berklee and [...]

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Tel Aviv – Ramallah – Amman

December 18, 2009 – 4:34 am

Monday began with an initial meeting with the Rimon administration and faculty.  We reviewed our longstanding partnership and addressed issues around curriculum transfer and student recruitment.  There is apparently a surge of interest in Rimon’s songwriting program with 150 students currently enrolled.  The program is taught by some of the best known songwriters in Israel [...]

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Arrival in Tel Aviv

December 7, 2009 – 12:22 am

After a 4-hour layover in Frankfurt, we arrived safely in Tel Aviv and made our way to the Melody Hotel.  This is part of a larger strategic plan to stay only in hotels that have names associated with music (;JK).  We just know there is a mixolydian or phrygian hotel out there somewhere.  I am traveling [...]

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Musicians in Istanbul get a crash course in auditioning

November 24, 2009 – 8:47 am

A newer component of the international Audition and Interview (A&I) events, the Preparing for An Audition clinic is exactly what it sounds like, a crash course on what to expect in the audition room.

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