Berklee Guitar Department

Coffee Talk with Colin Sapp

Colin Sapp has over 150 recording credits and has played with all kinds of folks from Kurt Elling to The Backstreet Boys and Ally Brooke. In addition to teaching in the Berklee Guitar Dept, he also runs the Youtube page Inside Out Guitar with Colin Sapp.

Coffee Talk Bonus: Inside the Entrance Audition

We are joined by guitar professors Jane Miller, Julien Kasper,  and former Chair of the Guitar Dept Larry Baione. They help dispel myths about the entrance audition, talk about what to expect when you audition, and give some great advice on how to prepare for it.

Coffee Talk: Inside the Guitar Principal

This is a special Coffee talk episode, on what it is like to be a guitar principal. We talk about the class load, the private lessons, and how to make the most of the guitar curriculum.

Stylistic Diversity Panel Part 3

This is Part 3 of our Stylistic Diversity webinar series, featuring Guitar Professors Jeffrey Lockhart and Tim Miller.

Stylistic Diversity Panel Part 2

This is our second installment of our Stylistic Diversity series, featuring Guitar Faculty Abby Aronson-Zocher and David Gilmore

Coffee Talk: Stylistic Diversity Panel

We airing here a webinar we did about a week ago over Zoom, on the stylistic diversity of guitar students and faculty here at Berklee. We were joined by world renowned guitarists and Berklee Guitar Faculty from seemingly opposite ends of the musical spectrum- Berta Rojas and David Tronzo.

Coffee Talk with Tomo Fujita

In this rebroadcast from last year, Tomo Fujita talks about how to make the most of getting a music education, how to be a better student, and how his own experience as a Berklee student shaped his teaching.

Coffee Talk with David Tronzo

This week we revisit an interview we did with Guitar Professor David Tronzo, who shares with us thoughts about developing his own musical identity, as well as the fundamental elements of learning and practicing music.

Coffee Talk with Larry Baione

Special rebroadcast of our interview with Guitar Dept Chair Emeritus Larry Baione!

Coffee Talk: Welcome Back to Campus Edition

Welcome back to Berklee Fall 2021 with a discussion featuring the Berklee Guitar Department leadership: Chair Kim Perlak, Assistant Chair Sheryl Bailey, Senior Department Coordinator Ian Steed, and Department Coordinator Ben Cote