Graduate Programs
Contemporary Performance (Production Concentration)
You’ll hone your skills and find your artistic voice in this three-semester program that stands apart from other advanced performance degrees by offering students a diverse curriculum.
Global Entertainment and Music Business
Master the methods and concepts that will prepare you to join the visionaries, executives, and entrepreneurs who lead today’s global music industry.
Music Production, Technology, and Innovation
Explore new artistic directions using innovations in music, technology, and the application of technology to music. If you’re a performer or composer with excellent musical proficiency and technological acumen, this program will help you deepen your skills and apply them in ever-changing ways.
Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games
Sharpen your scoring skills and develop your personal voice in a program that focuses on the art and craft of composing, orchestrating, editing, and producing music for the screen.
Electronic Music Genres: A Guide to the Most Influential Styles
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AI in Music: Composition, Production, and Analysis
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping how music is created, analyzed, produced, and experienced. This course explores the technologies at the core of that transformation, combining technical foundations with hands-on practice. You’ll work with AI tools and workflows through guided activities, independent experimentation, and project-based assignments. Along the way, you’ll tackle tasks in music recognition, analysis, production, and generation, using a range of AI-based apps and software shaping today’s music industry.
You’ll begin by examining how musical content is represented so it can be processed by AI models, introducing essential concepts in signal processing and Music Information Retrieval (MIR). From there, you’ll explore how AI analyzes, recognizes, classifies, and manipulates musical content, and how these techniques drive intelligent production workflows, such as mixing and mastering. You’ll also examine how AI technologies shape the modern music business, powering data-driven strategies that influence how music is discovered, distributed, and consumed. The course then turns to Generative AI (GenAI), covering algorithmic composition and deep learning models, with tasks such as music and lyric generation, text-to-music systems, style transfer, and voice conversion. The final section addresses the legal, ethical, and societal questions that accompany machine-generated music.
Throughout, you’ll connect each task to the underlying AI methods, investigate commercial tools, and critically evaluate their capabilities.
Over 12 weeks, you’ll learn to harness AI for creative and professional workflows. Emphasizing technological foundations, practical applications, critical analysis, and ethical reflection, this course prepares you to navigate and lead in the evolving world of AI-enhanced music composition, production, and analysis.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Explain core concepts of artificial intelligence (AI) and their specific applications in music and audio processing.
- Analyze digital music representations, including symbolic formats (e.g., MIDI) and audio signals.
- Use real-world AI environments and libraries to analyze audio, visualize musical features, and extract musical content with AI.
- Apply Music Information Retrieval (MIR) methods to analyze and extract musical features and perform related tasks such as beat detection, chord recognition, and source separation.
- Examine how AI technologies shape music discovery and distribution, enabling data-driven personalization, playlist curation, trend prediction, and audience segmentation across streaming and social platforms.
- Experiment with intelligent music production (IMP) tools for tasks such as mixing and mastering.
- Apply deep learning-based generative AI (GenAI) techniques to create and transform music through tasks such as text-to-MIDI, lyric generation, text-to-music, accompaniment, cover adaptation, and style transfer.
- Critically evaluate the legal, ethical, and societal implications of AI-generated music.
Next semester
starts Jan 12, 2026
www.online.berklee.edu/free-music-course-resources
Has anyone else noticed this?
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What is Generative AI and Should Musicians be Afraid? Carlos Arana Will Let You Know!
Top News of 2025
During his inauguration address in October 2025, President Jim Lucchese spoke about how artists don’t come to Berklee because they’re looking for their vocation. Rather, “If you’re here, [your vocation] found you,” he said. “You’re pursuing your art because you have to, and it creates a special connection. Our faculty see that calling in our students, and our students see themselves in their teachers.”
That special connection was on display throughout the year. Our students continued to blur the lines between classrooms and professional experience through partnerships with FIFA, Red Bull, and Boston Calling. At Berklee Valencia, faculty and alumni worked together to score Alejandro Amenábar’s latest film. We focused on music’s power to heal and expand opportunities, with faculty members bringing music therapy to Chinese elders(Opens in a new window) in Boston and staging the Berklee Inclusion Ensemble’s debut performance.
“That’s why our students are here,” Lucchese said in his remarks, citing the Berklee community’s ability to heal and bring people together. “And that’s why we’re here, too.”
Below, take a look back at where 2025 took us, and join us in imagining where we’re going next.
Bob Dylan Receives Berklee Honorary Doctorate
Bob Dylan Awarded Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of Music
“Who knows what path my career might have taken if I’d been fortunate enough to learn from some of the great musicians who taught at Berklee.”—Bob Dylan
This Berklee Program Turns Class Projects into Career Breakthroughs
“It’s all about getting our curriculum connected to what’s actually happening out in the industry at the moment.”
—Rodney Alejandro, dean of professional writing and music technology
How Musicians Can (and Should) Use AI—According to Berklee Experts
“When we use AI, we have to develop our own ethics.”
—Lori Landay, professor of cultural studies
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Filmed at Berklee NYC’s Power Station
“[The film crew was] shocked to find out that the studios. . . looked almost identical to as they would have looked when Bruce was recording Nebraska.”
—Hayley Isaacson, studio manager, Power Station
Berklee Celebrates the Inauguration of President Jim Lucchese
“Some institutions talk about helping students find their vocation. If you’re here, that’s not a problem. If you’re here, it found you.”
—Jim Lucchese, president
Arooj Aftab on ‘Vulture Prince,’ Grammy Noms, Genius.com, and Berklee
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