Hello! My name is Brandon H. Allen. I’m a fifth-semester music business major here at Berklee with a concentration on voice. I am also a student employee here in the Office of Summer Programs. I’m blogging here to share some valuable lessons from the 2009 Vocal Summit. If you’ve never been to a Berklee summer program, you don’t know what you’re missing! There is a great deal to learn, even if you’re not a high school student and have been playing your instrument for years. I realized even though I’ve been singing all my life and had been here two years, there were still things that I needed to learn, and other things that I needed to hear yet again. It was quite refreshing and it “lit the fire” in me again so to speak. Here are some of the key points I picked up in two classes I was able to sit in on:
