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India, days 5+6: In the audition room

February 12, 2010 – 8:31 am

Dan Carlin, Berklee’s chair of film scoring, reports.
Feb. 10–11: Over the past two days, we’ve held Berklee auditions at the Performers Collective here in Gurgaon, India. The demand was so great that, instead of working in shifts, our two audition teams were forced to double-book. In addition, this necessitated our corralling David McKay (Berklee’s vice [...]

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India, day 4: Conversations, computers, and audition prep

February 11, 2010 – 1:37 pm

By Dan Carlin, February 9, 2010.
Today we presented several clinics at the Performers Collective, covering such topics as improvisation, funk, film music, and music business. The students, once again, were very attentive and inquisitive. In fact, our experience over these last couple of days has been that once a clinic ends, we remain for a [...]

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Berklee in India, day 3: The clinics begin

February 10, 2010 – 1:24 pm

On their third day in India, Film Scoring chair Dan Carlin and the rest of the Berklee team. . . way too busy to send photos. . . get down to work at the World Scholarship Tour visit, orienting participants to the audition process.
This was our first day at the Performers Collective, the school [...]

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Berklee in India: Arts and eats in New Delhi

February 9, 2010 – 2:56 pm

Our correspondent Dan Carlin, chair of film scoring, reports in after his first full day in India with Berklee’s World Scholarship Tour. Today, the team members meet their hosts from Performers’ Collective/Gurgaon School of Music, and learn about the area’s culture.
This has been a full day. At breakfast, I was happy to see that David [...]

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India: Arrival!

February 8, 2010 – 2:49 pm

This week, Berklee holds a flurry of events in New Delhi and Mumbai (Bombay), India, including clinics and its first-ever auditions and interviews for prospective students. (Learn more about the trip.) The team includes David McKay, Berklee’s VP for institutional advancement; frequent fliers Jason Camelio and Gojko Damjanic of International Programs; contemporary writing and production [...]

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