Student Spring Award Winners
Each spring semester, division deans, department chairs, assistant chairs, faculty, and staff nominate those students whom they feel best embody the musical and academic qualities we seek to promote within the four instructional divisions of the college.
These awards are the most prestigious the college offers, given that nominations are made by faculty within the student’s area of specialization. Each nomination is an endorsement of that student’s potential to become a leader in tomorrow’s music industry by many of those Berklee faculty who are leaders within the industry today. On behalf of the entire college community, congratulations to you, our distinguished students, in what is certain to be only one of your many outstanding achievements in the years to come. We wish you continued success.
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Award Descriptions
Daniel Edge Memorial Scholarship
The Daniel Edge Memorial Scholarship Fund was established with gifts made by Edge’s friends and family as a permanently endowed fund to recognize talented and deserving students majoring in music production and engineering and/or students playing the saxophone who are in their third or fourth year of study at Berklee College of Music.
This fund, established by MIX magazine, recognizes continuing MP&E majors and achievement in the audio field. This award was established in response to Berklee receiving the 1985 TEC Award for best recording school. The recipient gives the college the right to notify MIX magazine of their name and biographical information in connection with the promotion and production of future TEC Awards programs. Students selected for this award will be continuing MP&E majors. The award is based on merit.
Christopher Yeoman Scholarship
These awards are given annually to a percussion student and/or a MP&E major who demonstrates outstanding musical talent and has maintained an overall minimum grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS)
These awards are given to continuing or returning students in the area of music technology and recognize outstanding achievement in music production and engineering.
Yale Thompson Memorial Scholarship Fund
In memory of a former Berklee student, Yale Thompson, the Yale Thompson Memorial Scholarship Fund was established in 1996 by his family: Larry, Oksana, and Tiffany Thompson. The endowed scholarship fund was established to recognize an outstanding music production and engineering major with first preference for a student who is a returning senior student and additional preference for a percussionist.
Joseph Baptista Memorial Scholarship
The Joseph Baptista Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund is a permanent endowed trust established in 1991 with donations from friends of Joseph Baptista.
This scholarship will be awarded annually to an academically and financially deserving student pursuing multi-media coursework within the Music Technology Division.
The Robin Coxe-Yeldham (formerly known as the Women in Audio) Award
This award is given to an outstanding female MP&E student. Robin Coxe-Yeldham was a professor in the Music Production and Engineering Department, having taught at Berklee since 1982. Throughout her distinguished career, she encouraged women to pursue careers in engineering. In 1995, the Audio Engineering Society awarded her a special “Granny” award as “First Lady in Audio Education in America.” Contributions may be made in her honor to: Berklee Women in Audio Scholarship, Berklee College of Music, Box 3, 1140 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215.
Liberal Arts Achievement Award
Determined by the Liberal Arts Department, this award goes to the student with highest cumulative liberal arts GPA.
This award recognizes outstanding achievement in the department.
This award recognizes outstanding achievement in the department.
This award recognizes outstanding achievement in the department.
MP&E Multicultural Achievement Award
This award recognizes outstanding achievement in the department.
This award recognizes outstanding achievement in the department.
This award recognizes dual majors who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in both the Music Production and Engineering and Electronic Production and Design (formerly known as Music Synthesis) departments.
Awarded annually to musically and academically deserving students, this award goes to those demonstrating outstanding achievement in the areas of music technology and/or performance.
William Randolph Hearst Scholarship
This award is designed to recognize outstanding musical and academic achievement by a dual music production and engineering and electronic production and design major (preference) or a single major within the Music Technology Division. Financial need demonstrated through submission of the appropriate documentation is also required to qualify. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a passion for learning and sharing their knowledge with others and contribute positively to the Music Technology Division. Preference will be given to applicants in their junior or senior year who play bass (not required).
Susan Ogan, mother of alumnus Gregory Ogan ‘03, has established the first-ever endowed fund for the purpose of updating technology and equipment to ensure that Berklee students have the necessary skills to produce the highest quality music possible. The fund has been established in memory of Ogan’s late husband, Gary, who passed away in 2000.
Awarded in recognition of grades, quality of work, and overall level of effort to make the most out of a degree from Berklee, the recipient receives a McDSP plug-in suite.
Awarded by Telefunken, in recognition of excellence. the recipient receives a microphone.
Awarded in recognition of “pushing forward music and technology, thinking outside the box, incorporating many genres of music into a project, or being an advocate of sharing/listening to music out loud,” the recipient receives a SONOS music playback system.
Donated by KOI Audio of Japan, this award recognizes outstanding achievement in the department.
This good person/good engineer award is named after the legendary CBS engineer, first MP&E chair, and former Music Technology dean Don Puluse.
The Sennheiser Award was established by Sennheiser to recognize excellence in audio and its future in an outstanding graduating MP&E senior. While Berklee has been educating the future of audio, Sennheiser has been hard at work designing it and developing the tools for artists to use. The recipient receives a pair of award-winning Sennheiser HD 600 headphones. The HD 600 has become a go-to favorite for mastering engineers the world over, so it would be commonplace for a graduate to use them as a critical listening component in everyday life.
Stacey Hye-Min Park Memorial Scholarship for Women
The Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund (formerly MP&E Fund for Women) is a permanent endowed trust established by an anonymous donor and named in memory of late MP&E student Stacey Hye-Min Park (2015). The scholarship is awarded to female MP&E majors who are academically deserving, demonstrate financial need, and have the potential to make a significant contribution to society through music.
Storyk/Molho Family Scholarship
The Storyk/Molho Family Scholarship Fund ("The Fund") was established in July 2018 with a gift to Berklee College of Music ("The Institution") of $20,000.00 by the families of Berklee graduate David Molho and SWDG Founding Partner, John Storyk, in memory of John's father Les Storyk, a great believer in education and the arts. The Fund will support academically and financially deserving students in their later semesters of study in the Music Production and Engineering program.