Berklee’s Aspire: Five-Week Music Performance Intensive
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Focus on: Music
Camp Category: Academics, Business, College Credits, College Prep, Pre-College, Adventure, Teen Tour, Arts, Choir, Drama, Film, Music, Other Arts, Performing Arts, Rock Music, Theater, International, Residential, Special Needs Camps, Visually Impaired, Sports, Yoga, Technology, and Game Design and Networking
At Berklee’s premier pre-college program, you’ll leave inspired, transformed, and equipped to drive your music forward in a collaborative environment featuring:
- College credit: Get a head start towards your undergraduate degree.
- Berklee faculty: Learn from the world’s leading music educators.
- A comprehensive curriculum: Take your musicianship to the next level with master classes, weekly private lessons, and a customized schedule tailored to your interests.
- New connections: In weekly ensembles and jam sessions, meet people who share your passion from more than 70 countries.
Berklee’s summer programs will give you a taste of Berklee, the preeminent institute of contemporary music and the performing arts, on the stage and in the classroom. Whether you are in middle school, high school, college, or beyond, there is a Berklee summer program in music, theater, and/or dance for you. You’ll enjoy access to Berklee’s state-of-the-art facilities as you learn from faculty who are the very best at what they do, joined by students who share your passion from all over the United States and more than 70 countries around the world.
You'll also learn from special guest clinicians. These have previously included chart-topping singer Charlie Puth; Beyonce background vocalist Crissy Collins; Broadway musical theater veteran Nick Adams; Megadeth bassist Dave Ellefson; and organist Cory Henry of Grammy-winning jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy. Whether you study with Berklee in Boston, Valencia, Spain, LA, or beyond, in the end, you'll leave inspired, transformed, and equipped to turn your creative spark into a fire. [Optional third graph for use in instances without space constraints:] Berklee summer programs have served as a launching pad for many students who have gone on to successful careers in the arts, including everyone from household names like Meghan Trainor, John Mayer, Robert Glasper, and Daniel Platzman of Imagine Dragons to behind-the-scenes industry titans like producer, engineer, and composer Greg Kurstin (Taylor Swift, Adele, Carly Rae Jepsen), score mixer and film music engineer Shinnosuke Miyazawa (Finding Dory, Spectre, Wall-E), and freelance composer Alexandra Hampton (ABC, MTV, VH1). Berklee summer students have also gone on to fulfilling careers at companies such as PlayStation, Xbox, Pandora, Saturday Night Live, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.