Founded by Gabriela Gómez Estévez in 2015, the Berklee Motion Picture Orchestra is a cross-collegiate student organisation based at Berklee College of Music with members from its home school, the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Boston University, MIT, and Northeastern University. Its prime objective is to promote and celebrate film music by creating new live performances that will appeal to fans around Boston and the world. Serving as an educational tool, the group provides a developmental space for students interested in arranging, performing, and conducting orchestral music. Previous Music Directors include Mona Seyed-Bolorforosh (2017/18) and Christian-Frédéric Bloquert (2018/19).
Featuring an 80-piece orchestra and the Crepusculum Choir, the Berklee Motion Picture Orchestra's biggest concert yet will include selections from favourites such as The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Mulan, Angels & Demons, The DaVinci Code, Phantom Thread, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Monster's Inc, Stravinsky's L'oiseau de feu, Harry Potter, Princess Mononoke, Ironman, Captain America, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, and Avengers: Endgame.
Exclusive arrangements by Shayn Toothman, Arjan Singh, Vincenzo De Leon, Ollie Graham, Dan Santiago, Utsav Bhargava, Tommaso Annoni, Kevin S. Ponce, and Christian-Frédéric Bloquert. 2019/20 Music Director Shaun Chen conducts.
Doors open at 7:00pm.
The Orchestra
Tommaso Annoni*, Celine Hawker, Danielle Yao, Logan Mitchell
Nadya Kelly, Collin Vodicka*
Ana Mariam Vázquez-Landeros*, Gabriela Pedraza, Peter Antinozzi
Catherine Willingham*, Talia DiCostanzo, Brittany McCorriston
Zander Sugarman, Charles Ritz, Meghan Marshall, Thomas Hasselberger
Nicholas von der Nahmer*, Tarin Clott, Sean Wang
Elliot Vendel*, Kendall Andrews, Michelle Lai, Spencer Rodriguezrivera
Arjan Singh*, Nik Gambardella, Matt Wesztergom, Beck Ghantous
Colin Laird
Denizan Aktas
Shayn Toothman*, Ollie Graham, Eric Boutwell, Misaki Kobayashi, Ryan Dzik
Dan Santiago
Thomas Michaels*, Sophie Shalyagina
Colleen Murray
Jesse Timm
Alfred Liu
Mei Ling
Kate Vaughn**, Gabriel De Leon**, Finneas Moore, Jing Su, Andrea Guariguata, Letian Feng, Peiran Zhao, Veera Kuisma, Alyssa Barker
Vincenzo De Leon*, Tsumugu Misugi, Lauren Massow, Alyssa Wells-Lewis, Clara Mazo, Miles Acquaviva, Lauren Kott, Michael Semanic, Miya Wang, Remy Kuo
Josh Litton*, Mackie Moore*, Danielle Breitstein, Derek Song, Dylan Fafard
Ya-Hsuan Yu*, Matthew Henegan*, Janelle Sands, Zack Foster, Ben Eyink, Ionas Finser
Adrienne Schoenfeld*, Thea Prevalsky, AC Muench, Daniel Ashkenazy, Benedict Koh
*Principal
**Co-Concertmaster