BTOT Brochure 2004 - Berklee College of Music

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as Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Southern Maine, and universities
in Arizona, Colorado, and Minnesota. He is a veteran performer on NPR’s A Prairie
Home Companion, and also designed the Powdermilk Biscuit logo for the show in
1970. Peterson’s own radio show can be heard Fridays on weru.org.
Renald Richard
Renald Richard is a professional trumpet player and lyricist who
joined the Ray Charles band in 1954, serving as Charles’s first
band leader and solo trumpeter. He cowrote “I Got a Woman”
with Charles in the back seat of a car on the way to a gig. It
went on to become Charles’s first no. 1 hit. Richard went on to
write songs that have been recorded by the Beatles, the Rolling
Stones, and Elvis Presley.
Loren Schoenberg
Loren Schoenberg began piano lessons at the age of four. He
interest in jazz led him to become a jazz historian, working at
the New York Jazz Museum. In 1974, he began playing tenor
saxophone and within two years was playing professionally.
Schoenberg has worked with a many swing greats including
Benny Goodman. In 1980, he began leading a big band. Since
then the increasingly distinctive soloist has recorded a series of
excellent swing-oriented records for Aviva and Music Masters, both with his big
band and with a combo.
Curt Sobel ’78
Emmy Award-winner Curt Sobel is a respected Hollywood music
editor, supervisor, and composer having over 125 films to his
credit. He has been associated with Oscar-recognized films such
as Ray, The Bourne Ultimatum, Finding Neverland, Speed, An
Officer and a Gentleman, The Insider, and Nine. Sobel has
worked with highly gifted film composers including Tom
Newman, James Newton Howard, Danny Elfman, and John
Powell. Artists he has worked closely with include Ray Charles, Prince, Jamie Foxx,
Donald Fagen, and Santana. He has worked with directors including Francis
Coppola, George Lucas, and Robert DeNiro. Sobel worked on the film Ray as the
Music Supervisor and won the Broadcast Film Critics Award for Best Soundtrack
along with the Golden Reel Award for Best Music Editing. He graduated from
Berklee and was honored with the 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award for his
contributions to film music and role as mentor to young film and composing students.