Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Berklee’s Latin faculty members seek to guide and engage the greater Berklee community through publicizing and curating related events, course offerings, and teaching resources. Hailing from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Peru, Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela, Germany, Israel, Sweden, Portugal, and the United States, they are recognized worldwide, having earned multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy awards and nominations. 

Frequently performing and traveling to international conferences to give master classes and clinics, Latin faculty members belong to leading trade organizations, such as the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the International Association for Jazz Education, the National Association of Music Merchants, Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM), International Society of Bassists (ISB), and the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. Most are also well published as composers, arrangers, instrument specialists, or music business experts.

Bass

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Oscar Stagnaro
ostagnaro@berklee.edu
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Fernando Huergo
fhuergo@berklee.edu
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Lincoln Goines
lgoines@berklee.edu
  • Personal website
  • Country of origin: United States of America
  • Instrument/specialty: Bass

Composition

Carmen Moral standing in a large performance venue while looking at the camera.
Carmen Moral
cmoral@berklee.edu
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Francisco Noya
fnoya@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Venezuela/Spain
  • Instrument/specialty: Conducting

Contemporary Writing and Production

Dan Moretti sitting in front of a piano with his saxophone in hand
Dan Moretti
dmoretti@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: United States of America
  • Instrument/specialty: Saxophone, flute
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Bernardo Hernandez
bhernandez@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Venezuela
  • Instrument/specialty: Composition, arrangement, guitar
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Lee Abe
labe@berklee.edu
  • Personal website
  • Country of origin: Japan
  • Instrument/specialty: Composition, arrangement, production, voice, piano

Ear Training

Gilson Schachnik in a white collared shirt from the side
Gilson Schachnik
gschachnik@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Brazil
  • Instrument/specialty: Piano
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Jose Soto
jsoto2@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Costa Rica 
  • Instrument/specialty: Piano
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Caio Afiune
cafiune@berklee.edu

Ensemble

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Consuelo Candelaria
ccandelaria@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: United States of America
  • Instrument/specialty: Piano
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Fernando Brandão
fbrandao@berklee.edu
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Rebecca Cline
rcline@berklee.edu
  • Personal website
  • Country of origin: United States of America
  • Instrument/specialty: Piano
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Jacques Schwarz-Bart
jschwarzbart@berklee.edu
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Ron Reid
rreid@berklee.edu
  • Personal website
  • Country of origin: Trinidad
  • Instrument/specialty: Bass, percussion
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Tim Pascoal
tpascoal@berklee.edu
Luis Perdomo sitting in front of a piano in a black suit and blue collared shirt smiling
Luis Perdomo
lperdomo3@berklee.edu
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Lizje Sarria
lsarria@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Colombia
  • Instrument/specialty: Voice, songwriting, production

Guitar

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Ben Sher
bsher@berklee.edu
  • Personal website
  • Country of origin: United States of America
  • Instrument/specialty: Guitar
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Freddie Bryant
fbryant@berklee.edu
  • Personal website
  • Country of origin: United States of America
  • Instrument/specialty: Guitar, composition
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Berta Rojas
brojas2@berklee.edu

Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Felipe Andrade-Santos
fsantos3@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Brazil

Percussion

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Mikael Ringquist
mringquist@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Sweden
  • Instrument/specialty: Hand percussion
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Ernesto Diaz
ediaz@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Colombia
  • Instrument/specialty: Percussion
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Eguie Castrillo
ecastrillo@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Puerto Rico
  • Instrument/specialty: Hand percussion
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Ricardo Monzón
rmonzon@berklee.edu
  • Personal website
  • Country of origin: Guatemala
  • Instrument/specialty: Drums, percussion
Mark Walker playing drums in a blue collared shirt
Mark Walker
mwalker@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: United States of America
  • Instrument/specialty: Drums, percussion
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Bertram Lehmann
blehmann@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Germany
  • Instrument/specialty: Drums
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Alberto Netto
anetto@berklee.edu
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Gustavo Agatiello
gagatiello@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Argentina
  • Instrument/specialty: Vibraphone, marimba, piano, drums
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Francisco Mela
fmela@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Cuba
  • Instrument/specialty: Drums

Piano

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Leo Blanco
Lblanco@berklee.edu
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Nando Michelin
nmichelin@berklee.edu
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Olivia Pérez Collellmir
operezcollellmir@berklee.edu
Zahili Gonzalez Zamora sitting & thinking in front of a grand piano
Zahili Gonzalez Zamora
zgonzalezzamora@berklee.edu

Screen Scoring

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Claudio Ragazzi
cragazzi1@berklee.edu
  • Personal website
  • Country of origin: Argentina
  • Instrument/specialty: Guitar, composer
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Dario Eskenazi
deskenazi@berklee.edu
  • Personal website
  • Country of origin: Argentina
  • Instrument/specialty: Composition, piano

Voice

Ana Guigui outdoors looking at the camera and smiling in a black sweater
Ana Guigui
aguigui@berklee.edu
  • Personal website
  • Country of origin: Puerto Rico
  • Instrument/specialty: Voice, piano, drums, flute
Gaby Cotter in a red dress next to a vintage microphone
Gaby Cotter
mcottertaylor@berklee.edu
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Martin Guas
mguas@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Argentina
  • Instrument/specialty: Voice

 Woodwind

Edmar Colon smiling at the camera in a navy blue suit, white collared shirt and red tie
Edmar Colón
ecolongierbolini@berklee.edu
  • Personal website
  • Country of origin: Puerto Rico
  • Instrument/specialty: Saxophone, piano, composition
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Godwin Louis
glouis@berklee.edu

 Brass

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Angel Subero
asubero@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Venezuela
  • Instrument/specialty: Trombone

Music Production & Engineering

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Alejandro Rodriguez
anrodriguez@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Cuba
  • Instrument/specialty: Engineering, production

Harmony

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Joe Mulholland
jmulholland@berklee.edu
  • Personal website
  • Country of origin: United States of America
  • Instrument/specialty: Piano, synthesizer, B-3 organ

Songwriting

Rodney Alejandro in a cowboy hat on stage playing keys
Rodney Alejandro
ralejandro@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: United States of America
  • Instrument/specialty: Keys, songwriting

 Mediterranean Music Institute

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Javier Limón
jlimon@berklee.edu
  • Country of origin: Spain
  • Instrument/specialty: Piano, oboe, guitar

Staff

Many staff members at Berklee have a Latin background. Browse the list below to learn about a few of those staff members and their areas of expertise.

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Camila Escobar
cescobar2@berklee.edu

Manager of Digital Philanthropy and Student Engagement
Institutional Advancement

  • Country of origin: Colombia
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Pablo Vargas
pvargas@berklee.edu

Dean, Library & Learning Resources
The Library

  • Country of origin: Colombia