![]() ![]() After graduation, Jones plans to complete a clinical music therapy internship at a psychiatric hospital and would someday like to open a facility with programs helping homeless women, victims of domestic violence, and teen mothers.Ī Haitian American music therapy major from Novato, California, Claudia Eliaza traveled to Kenya in 2007 to work with children affected by AIDS and HIV in an orphanage. She also does extensive volunteer work at homeless shelters and created and implemented a music program at a Head Start facility in Boston. Even if that meant bringing him to class, which sometimes I did." Jones becomes the first college graduate in her family. Says Jones, "When I felt like giving up, he would remind me that I had to press on, saying, 'Mommy, did you do your homework?' I would remember that I have to finish, if not for me, then for him. Her son has been a key motivator throughout. Although she didn't have money for college, she came to Boston determined and received financial aid and merit-based scholarships. Check out a concert by Gould and the rest of the Thelonious Monk Institute scholarship winners this summer.įrom Douglasville, Georgia, Whitney Jones completed the demanding music therapy degree while juggling many roles: mother, student, employee, and volunteer. An alumnus of Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, he also received Berklee's Herbie Hancock Presidential Scholarship, a full-ride award to attend the college. Gould has performed with Blanchard, Donald Harrison, Branford Marsalis, Kurt Elling, Ralph Peterson, and many others. This full-scholarship, graduate-level program allows the world's most gifted musicians to study with the greatest living jazz masters. He will spend the next two years studying with the program's artistic director, acclaimed trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard. Read a speech that Musinami gave at last year's convocation.Ī pianist from Simi Valley, California, Victor Gould is one of only six musicians selected for the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, class of 2011, in New Orleans. After graduation, he is forming recording networks CJCC and Kaleo Nation that will apply innovative new business models to the music industry. Musinami graduates with degrees in music business/management and music production and engineering. An effort was undertaken to raise funds to bring his parents to the graduation ceremony for a long-awaited and emotional reunion, but it ultimately fell short of its goal. He has not been able to see his family or return to his homeland-even for the funeral of his beloved grandmother who raised him-in five long years due to economic and political circumstances. Through passion, persistence, and faith, he gained scholarship support and has thrived, but sacrificed heavily in pursuit of his dreams. But here are the paths that led eight graduating seniors to their final walk across the stage.Ī resident of Boston's Back Bay, Kundayi Musinami came to Berklee from war-torn Zimbabwe with only $12 in his pocket and without any acquaintances in the U.S. ![]() Too many Berklee students graduate each year for us to tell all of their fascinating stories. ![]()
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