Berklee College of Music
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Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. It has an enrollment of approximately 3,800 students and a faculty of approximately 430 (as of 2004). Berklee offers a fully accredited four-year baccalaureate degree or diploma. Degree program tuition is approximately $20,350 for the fall through spring academic year (as of 2004).
Berklee has the largest percentage of undergraduate students from outside the U.S.—26 percent—representing more than 70 countries. Women comprise 24.6 percent of the student body. Domestic minority enrollment is African-American, 6.4 percent; Hispanic, 5.5 percent; Asian-American, 4.1 percent. The five countries that supply the largest percentage of foreign students to Berklee are Japan, Korea, Germany, Switzerland, and Brazil. The school's current president, Roger H. Brown, was inaugurated in 2004.
Berklee offers three full time semesters per year: Fall, Spring, and an accelerated twelve week summer program. (Compared to the regular sixteen weeks for Fall and Spring.)
There are 230 acoustic pianos and more than 1,000 guitar principals at Berklee. The average class size is 11. The holdings of the college's Stan Getz Media Center and Library include more than 11,500 recordings, 20,000 books, 17,000 musical scores, and 6,000 lead sheets.
Berklee was founded by Lawrence Berk and was originally named Schillinger House of Music, after his teacher Joseph Schillinger. The original purpose of the school was to teach the Schillinger System of musical harmony and composition. After expansion of the school's curriculum, Berk changed the name to Berklee School of Music after his son Lee Berk in 1954 and as a pun on the name of the famous University of California, Berkeley. When the school received its accreditation, the name was changed to Berklee College of Music in 1973. Ironically, Lee Berk never formally studied music, instead focusing on Business and Real Estate Law, however his daughter Lucy Berk is an alumnus of the college.
At the time of its founding, almost all music schools focused primarily on classical music. The original mission of Berklee was to provide formal training in jazz, rock, and other contemporary music not available at other music schools.
Contrary to common misconceptions, applying to Berklee does not require any form of tryout or performance before a review board and maintains an open admissions policy. Study with a private instructor for at least one year prior to admission is required and references are preferred.
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Facilities
- 13 buildings in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood
- a practice & rehearsal building in Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood
Majors
- Performance
- Composition
- Jazz Composition
- Music Production & Engineering
- Film Scoring
- Music Business/Management
- Music Synthesis
- Contemporary Writing & Production
- Music Education
- Songwriting
- Music Therapy
- Professional Music
Prominent alumni
- Jason Bittner
- Blonde Redhead members Amedeo Pace and Simone Pace
- Gary Burton
- Will Calhoun
- Alf Clausen
- Bruce Cockburn
- Vinnie Colaiuta
- Paula Cole
- Fernando Cutait
- Al DiMeola*
- Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci, and John Myung*
- Big Wreck members Ian Thornley, Brian Doherty, Dave Henning, Forrest Williams
- Mekaal Hasan
- Melissa Etheridge
- Kevin Eubanks
- Bill Evans (saxophonist)
- Donald Fagen*
- Laurie Geltman
- Juan Luis Guerra
- Trina Hamlin
- Jan Hammer
- Roy Hargrove*
- Juliana Hatfield
- Bruce Hornsby
- Infinity Minus One
- Lukas Johnson of Chatter
- Quincy Jones
- Killswitch Engage members Adam Dutkiewicz and Joel Stroetzel
- Joseph Koo
- Diana Krall
- Joe Lovano
- Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks (dropped out)
- Aimee Mann*
- Arif Mardin
- Branford Marsalis
- John Mayer*
- Mudge
- Trey Parker*
- Chris Pennie
- Bill Pierce
- David Rawlings
- Ed Roland of Collective Soul
- Wallace Roney (left to join Art Blakey)
- Kurt Rosenwinkel
- John Scofield
- Howard Shore
- Alan Silvestri
- Steve Smith
- Andrea Stankevitch of Chatter
- Susan Tedeschi
- Brian Transeau*
- Steve Vai
- Lee-Hom Wang (Asian pop and R&B idol)
- Sadao Watanabe
- Gillian Welch
* Designates left before receiving diploma.
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