East Orange Teen Awarded Four-Year, Full-Tuition Berklee City Music College Scholarship to Attend Berklee College of Music

Boston, MA - August 23, 2011

The Berklee City Music program at Berklee College of Music awarded 16 young musicians a total of $2 million in full-tuition scholarships
to support four years of study at the college. Six of the recipients were from Berklee City Music Network sites around the country, the other 10 were from Boston. All of the recipients attended Berklee's Five-Week Summer Performance Program on City Music Summer Scholarships. They are expected to begin classes this fall.

Among the recipients of the Berklee City Music College Scholarship was saxophonist and bassist Darian Bravo of East Orange. Bravo is a graduate of the Cicley Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts and is also a Student of the NJPAC Jazz For Teens Program that works in collaboration with the Berklee City Music Network at the Rutgers University T.E.E.M. Gateway/Cobblestone Records partner site in Newark.