BTOT Brochure 2004 - Berklee College of Music

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17 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.
Daryl Stewart For more than 30 years, Daryl Stewart has worked in multiple aspects of music business. He has served as agent (Regency artists, Triad Artists, William Morris Agency), manager (Shalamar, Gerald Albright, M’Shell Ndegeocello), tour manager (Ray Charles, Barry White, Randy Crawford, Whispers, Hole), tour accountant (Lollapalooza), production manager (Molson Ice Polar Beach Party), and corporate talent buyer (MGD “Blind Date” concert series). Stewart is now Managing Partner of DCS Investments, a theatrical production house. Peter Turre In March of 1978, drummer Peter Turre began touring full-time with the man who would have the biggest musical impact on his life, Ray Charles. He had first met Charles as a teenager, when his brother, trombonist Steve Turre, toured with Charles for a year. Upon joining Charles’s band, a deep musical and personal bond quickly formed. For nineteen of the next twenty-six years, until Charles’s death in 2004, Turre performed in thousands of concerts as Charles’s drummer and musical director. These dates included performances in all fifty states, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Asia, and Africa. Turre has performed for multiple U.S. Presidents, kings, queens and other heads of state as well as at venues such as the Kremlin, the Roman Coliseum, the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol, and Atlanta’s Olympic Stadium. Lawrence Watson Lawrence Watson is a modern-day Paul Robeson. He is currently a professor of ensembles at Berklee College of Music and the resident artist at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at the Harvard Law School. Watson has performed with Al Green, Smokey Robinson, Oleta Adams, Little Richard, Gladys Knight, the Neville Brothers, Tata Vega, Jean Carne, and the Boston Pops. He has also been the soloist at several events honoring three Supreme Court justices, the Governors Conference, Colin Powell, Nelson Mandela, Hillary Clinton, Desmond Tutu, and Barack Obama. 18
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