The world's largest independent college of contemporary music, where jazz, production and songwriting are taught by working masters.
9 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President
Office of the President
Thank you for taking up the leadership of Berklee as its fifth president and for bringing a career at the meeting point of music and technology to the service of student musicians.
Founder and Artistic Director, Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice
Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice
Thank you for building the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice so that jazz can finally sound like everyone who plays it, and for drumming that made you the first woman to win the Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.
Founder and Artistic Director, Berklee Global Jazz Institute
Berklee Global Jazz Institute
Thank you for founding the Global Jazz Institute on the belief that music is a force for social good, and for piano playing with the Wayne Shorter Quartet that showed students what fearless listening sounds like.
Gary Burton Chair in Jazz Performance
Berklee Global Jazz Institute
Thank you for returning to your alma mater to hold the Gary Burton Chair, and for a saxophone voice, honored with the Grammy for 52nd Street Themes, that keeps showing students how tradition and freedom feed each other.
Professor of Piano
Piano
Thank you for a trailblazing path from Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers to the piano studios of Berklee, and for teaching with the same originality that made you a 2018 NEA Jazz Master.
Professor
Ensemble
Thank you for bringing the discipline of world tours with Beyonce and the artistry of the Grammy-nominated Diamond Cut into Berklee's ensemble rooms, where your students learn excellence is a daily practice.
Professor
Music Production and Engineering
Thank you for bringing the board experience behind Mary J. Blige, Destiny's Child and the Notorious B.I.G. into the classroom, and for showing engineers that great records are made with both ears and heart.
Professor
Music Production and Engineering
Thank you for engineering Purple Rain and Sign 'o the Times with Prince and then earning a doctorate in music cognition, and for directing Berklee's Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory where science meets the studio.
Professor
Screen Scoring
Thank you for teaching composers to score for the screen, from first orientation in film and media scoring to the senior portfolio, with the rigor the craft deserves.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of Berklee College of Music, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.