The music education outreach wrapped on Monday, the team’s last day in Kenya, with a visit to Starehe Boys Centre, where the Berklee professors gave a workshop and clinic for students in the music class.
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Joey Guglielmo in Kenya, pt. 2
July 12, 2010 – 2:30 pm
Another dispatch from the music business major, who was part of the Berklee team that traveled to Kenya to audition potential students and connect with music educators. Read his first post.
Workshops at Brookhouse in Nairobi, and concert performance
July 8, 2010 – 1:56 pm
After the Independence Day party at the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya’s residence, we headed back to the Brookhouse School where professors Ron Reid and Dan Moretti gave clinics for Brookhouse students, musicians who had auditioned earlier in the week, and local musicians. Here, Reid works with an ensemble – and gets the entire class to [...]
A student visits Kenya
July 8, 2010 – 8:17 am
Student Joey Guglielmo, a music business major and guitarist, accompanied Berklee’s admissions team to Kenya this month. But he wasn’t just along for the ride—he’s a representative of his family’s foundation March to the Top, which supports education, conservation, and health care in Africa. He shares his impressions: Day 1: Brookhouse School Today we spoke [...]
Videos from Berklee’s events in Nairobi
July 6, 2010 – 2:15 pm
Actually, these are the first of many videos from the events last week. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 82 musicians from several different African countries auditioned at the Brookhouse School in Nairobi, Kenya, for scholarship opportunities to attend Berklee through the Africa Scholars Program. Many others had to be turned away because there just wasn’t [...]