Rob Hochschild

They're lauded as some of the best musicians at Berklee. But when students in the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI) recently toured Africa, they did so without any of the egocentric trappings you might expect from people so young and talented. All they seemed to care about was connecting with audiences...

With a lead role on Broadway in The Color Purple and a recording contract with Blue Note Records, Elisabeth Withers-Mendes '94 is living her dreams.

When Paul Wachter—financial advisor to many of the biggest names in entertainment and sports—visited Berklee on April 25, he turned one of the most-heard career maxims on its ear.
"It's not about who you know, it's about what you know," he told a group of Berklee students..."

Beyond the cycle of classes, hours of study, and carefully orchestrated ceremonies, the daily unfolding drama of college life has a way of generating random circumstances that inevitably impact its actors for years to come. Look at Walter Becker and Donald Fagen '66. As undergraduates at a small liberal arts college in New York in the 1960s, a couple of smart teenagers equally obsessed with jazz, rock, and black humor, they sought out like-minded jam session buddies with whom to have some kic...

Herb Alpert is the ultimate musical synthesist. For nearly forty years, he has let his instincts guide him toward making ear-catching music free of stylistic or historical limitations.