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Cape of Good Hope viewed from mountain top

Berklee City Music Goes to South Africa

Berklee City Music faculty standing on the coast of the Cape of Good HopeThis past summer, a group of Berklee and City Music faculty traveled to South Africa to conduct school music programs and give a number of performances throughout the country. City Music Boston faculty member and drummer Chris Rivelli, kept a travel journal over the course of the week. Here are a few selections. You can also read the full travel journal.

By Chris Rivelli

Friday, June 9, 2017

After a 22 hour journey, Ron Mahdi, David Alexis and myself, arrived in Cape Town on Thursday night, June 8. We had a chance to get acclimated and sleep in on Friday morning. I couldn’t stay in bed though, and went out for a run. The hotel clerk recommended a trail that was nice for running, and I soon found myself headed up a breath-taking mountain, with a view over Stellenbosch, the winery town, which we are staying in.

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Berklee Indian Ensemble: Have you met Ava?

12628586_919155108167709_2231900511043166992_oI’ve known, loved and worked with Ava Dudani since my first semester at Berklee in 2014. If you’ve lived in Boston, chances are, you do too! An active performer and songwriter, Ava is an 8th semester Professional Music major focusing on Music Education and Songwriting sits down with me to share her story.

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Susana Baca meets Berklee no Berklee Performance Center!

Vinicius Sa
Vinícius Cavalieri de Sá Coutinho, born in São Paulo on March 8, 1992, is
a Brazilian guitarist and composer who is majoring in Film Scoring.
Vinicius works as the Online International Ambassador for Portuguese
language since January, 2014.
Susana Baca é uma cantora e compositora nascida no Peru. Ganhadora de 2 Grammy’s latinos,
Baca é uma das pessoas responsáveis por marcar o renascimento da música afro-peruana. Foi
nomeada ministra da cultura em Julho de 2011 e presidente da “Comissão de Cultura” no
período de 2011 a 2013.

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Tá chegando! Snarky Puppy em Boston novamente.

Vinicius Sa
Vinícius Cavalieri de Sá Coutinho, born in São Paulo on March 8, 1992, is a Brazilian guitarist and composer.
Finalmente. Está chegando o show do Snarky Puppy no Berklee Performance Center. Já postei um artigo sobre este show, porém vale a pena lembrar de que o show será no dia 28 de Novembro, às 8 da noite.

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Carreiras na área de Performance

Vinicius Sa
Vinícius Cavalieri de Sá Coutinho, born in São Paulo on March 8, 1992, is a Brazilian guitarist and composer.
Quando eu estava prestes a escolher o meu major, dei uma olhada na lista e vi “Performance”.
Na época eu pensei: “O que será que você faz da vida depois de se formar em “performance”?”.
Sem desmerecer esta área, obviamente. Só não sabia exatamente em que área e com quem um
performer trabalharia ao invés de ser um artista e contar com diversas apresentações.

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