Thu, Oct 09
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Mark Small, Lee Berk: Leading the Berklee Way
Mark Small will be in conversation with Susan Berk, Lee Berk's wife, and John Trentacosta. Lee Berk was president of his namesake Berklee College of Music for twenty-five years, where he turned a small, family-operated school into the world's largest and most innovative music education institution
Date, Time & Location
Oct 09, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Pre-order Lee Berk ($29.99, paperback) from CWB here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226
The book traces the journey of descendants of poor Jewish immigrants from Russia, whose struggles and resilience paved the way for Lawrence Berk (1908–1995) and his son Lee to realize their own version of the American dream. In 1945, Lawrence founded a small one-room studio in Boston’s Back Bay, which became the Berklee School of Music, the first college to embrace jazz when other institutions rejected it. His entrepreneurial vision set the stage for what would become a groundbreaking force in music education.
Lee joined the school in 1966 and, as president from 1979, expanded Berklee into a global leader with pioneering programs in Film Scoring, Music Production, Songwriting, and more. He also launched Berklee Online in 2004, now the world’s largest provider of…