The Berklee Initiative

Berklee City Music is the college strategic initiative to engage underserved urban teens in a year-round music education program designed to prepare them to pursue higher education and reduce specific music-related achievement gaps between minority and non-minority teens and between economically disadvantaged teens and their more advantaged peers. City Music provides quality music instruction, mentoring, and college scholarships to teens from Boston as well as to those enrolled at City Music network sites. This is achieved with the Berklee PULSE method, a cutting-edge curriculum centered around present-day music styles; the instruments that youth tend to select; and theoretical, listening, improvisational, and performance skills. Teens who play musical instruments should bring them to program.