04) Don Wilkins

Don Wilkins is Chair Emeritus of the Film Scoring Department at Berklee College of Music, Boston. His musical education and performance experience began in Sacramento, California. Following two years as a Music major at American River College, he learned of Berklee’s unique contemporary music curriculum and enrolled in the fall of 1966. He was most drawn to Jazz Arranging, Composition and Conducting. His arrangements and compositions were featured in student concerts and performed on local Boston TV. During his senior year, he was named Music Director, Conductor and co-Composer of Harvard’s perennial Hasty Pudding Theatricals production, The Boy Who Cried Beowulf.

Upon graduation in 1970 he returned to California and became immersed in the film industry in Hollywood. Private studies with Albert Harris and seminars with Earle Hagen led to professional scoring opportunities under composers, Fred Steiner and Earl Robinson. Don gained extensive studio experience at scoring and dubbing sessions and learned the technical craft and professional responsibilities of music editing for films and TV at Neiman-Tillar Associates. These professional opportunities would provide him with an essential foundation for developing the curriculum in Film Scoring at Berklee. He was called to join the faculty in 1975. Four years later, Film Scoring was added as a major field of study at the college.

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