AUDITIONS AND

OPPORTUNITIES
SIGNATURE SERIES 2021:
SINGERS SHOWCASE: Tina Turner—Simply the Best
Thursday, December 9 at 8:00 p.m.
Berklee Performance Center
Join a global cast of students for an exhilarating evening of entertainment honoring the legendary singer, songwriter, actor, and author
Tina Turner. Produced by Maureen McMullan ’09, the concert will showcase some of Berklee’s most outstanding vocalists, instrumentalists,
arrangers, dancers, and track producers as they interpret Turner’s most iconic songs from her unparalleled, high-octane live performances and
supreme recordings, such as “Shake a Tail Feather,” “Proud Mary,” “River Deep, Mountain High,” “Nutbush City Limits,” “What’s Love Got to Do
With It,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” “Private Dancer,” and many more.
Over her boundary-breaking six-decade career, Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock, 1939, in rural Tennessee) has sold more than 200 million
records worldwide and earned eight Grammy Awards and 25 nominations. She has also received three Grammy Hall of Fame Awards and a
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Turner is a Kennedy Center Honors recipient and a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
with Ike Turner in 1991 and as a solo artist in 2021. She is also the first woman and first Black artist to be on the cover of Rolling Stone
magazine. When Beyoncé was asked about her main artistic influence, she immediately named Turner as her idol. Widely known as “the
Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Turner is a singular talent and trailblazer who defies predefined industry categories. She has smashed gender and
racial boundaries, survived domestic abuse, and continues to inspire generations of musicians as one of the most impactful and distinctive
singers in history.
SINGERS SHOWCASE INFO-SESSION: We will be hosting a Singers Showcase Info-Session at Red Room, Cafe 939 on Thursday,
September 9, 2021 from 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. During the session you’ll get to meet the production team and hear more about the concert.
We’ll also include a Q&A to answer any audition/application questions you may have and offer up some top tips to help you present
yourself and your materials as professionally as possible.
LEAD AND BACKGROUND VOCAL AUDITIONS: Online application details can be found at: bit.ly/Showcase_Vocals
We are casting for both lead and background vocalists. Casting will happen in two phases:
1). Online Open Call Auditions
2). In-Person Callback Auditions (which are by invitation only) will be held live in the Berklee Performance Center
• Deadline to apply: Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 11:00 p.m. EDT
Mark your calendar:
• Callback Auditions: Thursday, September 16, 2021 from 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. EDT
HOUSE BAND AUDITIONS: Online application details can be found at: bit.ly/ShowcaseHouseBand
We are casting for piano, keyboard, electric and acoustic guitar, EDI, electric and upright bass, drums, percussion, alto, tenor, and baritone
saxophone, trumpet, trombone, and strings.
• Deadline to apply: Sunday, September 12, 2021 at 11:00 p.m. EDT
TRACK PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: Online application details can be found at: bit.ly/ShowcaseTrackProduction
• Deadline to apply: Sunday, September 12, 2021 at 11:00 p.m. EDT
ARRANGING OPPORTUNITIES: Online application details can be found at: bit.ly/Showcase_Arrangers
• Deadline to apply: Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 11:00 p.m. EDT
ELIGIBILITY: All currently enrolled College and Conservatory students are eligible to apply. If you need accommodations on the basis
of disability to complete any of the applications, please get in touch with Maureen McMullan, concert and event producer, at
mmcmullan@berklee.edu.
• All applications will be reviewed equally and fairly. The production team is committed to Berklee’s diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.