Events

Venezuelan bassist Luis Celis presents a set of original compositions and arrangements inspired by jazz, classical, and traditional Venezuelan music. 
 

Bass performance and jazz composition major Beth McPherson will perform a set of some of the funkiest and grooviest bass features in jazz fusion. 

Indonesian bass player Aubrey Situmorang presents a collection of jazz- and R&B-influenced originals and covers.

This year, the WesFest tradition continues in Boston, Massachusetts; Nashville, Tennessee; and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, as the Berklee Bass Department hosts the legendary Wooten Brothers, featuring Grammy Award winner and Berklee Performance Scholar in Residence Victor Wooten. Learn more about Wes Wehmiller, hear world-class jazz and rock, and cheer on Braeden Myers, this year’s scholarship winner, and his band. The concert will be livestreamed from Cafe 939 at Berklee in Boston, Wooten Studios in Nashville, and TreeHouse Studios in Myrtle Beach for friends and supporters around the world.

Zack Lamb will end his journey at Berklee with covers and arrangements of classic R&B, neo-soul, and funk fusion with a jazz flavor.

In this video rewind from 2017, bass principal Michael Decena presents original compositions and arrangements of covers. 

In this video rewind from 2018, watch George Constantinou, a Greek bassist who is influenced by a wide variety of genres, perform his original compositions in the style of modern jazz with powerful arrangements that mix jazz with classical music and rock.