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Berklee College of Music Boston Choral Ensemble
Advanced Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Boston Choral Ensemble is an auditioned mixed-
voice chamber choir based in Boston that performs
The Berklee College of Music Advanced Vocal compelling and relevant repertoire, particularly by di-
Jazz Ensemble has performed at the 2016 and 2024 verse and living composers. Their concerts encourage
Eastern ACDA Region Conferences; and 2014, 2020, audience interaction, lowering the barriers between
2022 (Main Stage) and 2025 Jazz Education Network their audience and the works they are performing
conferences. The ensemble has placed first or second through the use of nontraditional locations and inno-
in the DownBeat student music awards between 2018 vative formats. Over the past twenty-four years, BCE
and 2024. The ensemble will be performing with the has expanded its mission, strengthening its core values
world-renowned New York Voices for a second time in through its members, volunteer-led board of directors,
April 2026. and an ever-growing musical presence in the greater
Boston community.
Ned J. Rosenblatt currently holds the po-
sition of professor in the Voice Depart- Katherine Chan is the director of choral
ment at the Berklee College of Music in activities and associate teaching profes-
Boston, Massachusetts. Rosenblatt holds sor of music at Northeastern Univer-
a BME from the University of Connecti- sity, where she conducts the University
cut, Storrs, and a master’s in jazz pedagogy from the Choral Society, Chamber Singers, and
Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory. Mosaic Advance Treble Ensemble. She also serves as
artistic director of Boston Choral Ensemble. Chan has
appeared at numerous international festivals, including
Oregon Bach Festival, Taipei Bach Festival, and Hong
Kong SingFest. In 2024 she was runner-up in the Amer-
ican Prize Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting
(college/university division). Chan received her BM in
performance and pedagogy from the Queensland Con-
servatorium of Music, Griffith University; MM in cho-
ral conducting from the University of Washington; and
DMA in conducting from the University of Minnesota.

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