Berklee Tower: Harmonic of Music and Energy

Berklee Tower is a new 16-storey mixed-use building, which creates a center of gravity and a strong identity for the Berklee College of Music campus. Most prominent is a 40-foothigh performance/dining space that fronts onto a major Boston thoroughfare, showcasing student performances nightly.

Twelve floors, housing 380 students plus a fitness center and music practice rooms, sit above the performance space. Six double height lounges on the residential floors help build community by linking two floors of students. In support of Berklee’s growing programs in music technology, two floors below grade house the largest recording studio complex in New England. Berklee’s Boston campus pulses with energy and with music. Located in the city’s vibrant Back Bay neighborhood, the campus is anchored by four residence halls populated solely by musicians—an ideal place to begin developing your lifelong professional network with music-makers who come to this diverse, international hub from all over the world.

As a Berklee student at the college’s Boston campus, you join a close-knit music community in a world-class university city with a wide array of live music venues both on campus and around town. A microcosm of the music industry, the campus offers practice and rehearsal rooms and top-of-the-line recording studios for anything from an intimate solo performance to a 50-piece film scoring orchestra recording to picture.

Boston is large enough to draw the world’s best musicians to its stages but small enough to facilitate the formation of strong bonds among its music community. Berklee students are central to that community and are the driving force behind popular annual events such as the Beantown Jazz Festival and the expansive Summer in the City concert series. Attractions and opportunities aside, Berklee students and alumni often note that it is the people of Boston that make this such a special place to learn and develop. Consistently ranked “America’s smartest city” by Forbes, Boston is at the forefront of innovation in education, technology, and the arts.

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