Updates from the Executive Director

March Update

Dear Berklee Family,

The annual celebration of Fallas is over as is the campus’s short spring break. We are now moving into the last half of the spring semester, although students will get more holidays before the end of the semester, when we break for Easter.

The campus continues to be busy. Students in the master’s in Global Entertainment and Music Business program presented a group project where they created a digital living archive of an artist who has been active for at least a decade. The project had to focus on all aspects of the artist, not just their music. Students gave the presentation in front of Berklee Valencia Honorary Doctorate recipient Yvette Noel-Schure (‘23), who Zoomed Berklee HD recipient John Legend (‘20) into the session. Following the presentation, Noel-Schure connected the student groups to each artist’s team, to discuss possible long-term development of their projects.

The students in the master’s in Contemporary Performance (Production Concentration) program had their annual spring concert at the auditorium of our neighbors in the City of Arts and Sciences, CaixaForum. This night of jazz, titled Endangered Species, featured original student compositions, led by faculty member Victoria Pilatovic. And students in the master’s in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games program had an opportunity to meet with student filmmakers from the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya, with the goal of developing collaborations for now and the future. 

The International Career Center has been very active since the success of our annual Global Career Summit in January. The ICC hosted mock interviews with students in the master’s in Music Production, Technology, and Innovation program and scheduled meetups for students in each graduate program with alumni. 

Undergraduate students were equally busy with open mics and a day trip to Peñiscola. And, of course, they just finished their midterm exams! An industry lunch, where undergraduate students also have the opportunity to network and learn from graduate students, was rescheduled for late April, due to inclement weather in the Valencia area.

At an institutional level, we celebrated Berklee’s annual Giving Day, where fundraising is conducted for a variety of institutional initiatives. At Berklee Valencia, our focus for Giving Day was on student scholarships and we are excited to have raised more money and, more importantly, had more donors, than in the past. We would like to extend a special thank you to all those who supported our students and our campus on Giving Day. 

I will have one more update before the end of the spring semester and would like to leave you with this video of Filo Ebid (MM CPPD ‘24), and his audition for Season 23 of American Idol.

Best wishes to all.