Berklee Online alums Dean Vitale and Todd Urban

From Classmates to Collaborators: Dean Vitale and Todd Urban Release New EP

After graduating from Berklee Online’s Music Production master’s degree program in 2025, Dean Vitale and Todd Urban have reunited—this time as collaborators—on a new four-song EP titled Urban Sound Studio Presents “sir” Luminous and Todd Urban.

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Kristen Long on Building the Skills (and Studio) She Needed to Produce Music

When Kristen Long wanted to develop her animated children’s music series, she realized she needed more than songwriting skills—she needed production mastery. The Royal Caribbean music director returned to Berklee (via Berklee Online) to build her own studio, earn her master’s degree, and expand her creative range without stepping away from work.

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Event Ticketing Is Broken. Berklee Online Alum Josh Misko Wants to Fix It.

Think concert ticketing is broken? So does Berklee Online alum Josh Misko. In 2025 he co-founded Seatfun, a live event platform challenging everything that’s wrong with ticketing. And he did this all while earning his master’s degree in Music Production. The company recently closed a multi-million-dollar funding round and launched a new, invite-only app.

A collage of gift ideas for musicians is pictured, including a vinyl record clock, soundproofing, a nebulizer, a game, and more.

Music Gifts: What Presents to Buy Your Musician for the Holidays in 2025

By Ale Gil

With the 2025 holidays coming up, a Berklee undergraduate student is the perfect guide for finding gifts the musicians and music lovers in your life will actually appreciate.

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Enrique Gonzalez Müller on Tina Turner, Dave Matthews, and Studio Lessons That Stick

Latin Grammy–winning producer and engineer Enrique Gonzalez Müller shares formative stories from studio experiences with artists like Tina Turner, Dave Matthews, and Nine Inch Nails. He also reflects on curiosity as a creative engine, his full-circle collaborations in Venezuela, and how those experiences shape the way he teaches music production with Berklee Online.

Andrea Pejrolo sits in front of a desk with various electronic devices and musical instruments, including two iPads, which are significant to him because he teaches the Music Writing and Production with the iPad course at Berklee Online.

5 Surprising Benefits of Producing Music on an iPad

By Ale Gil

What happens when Apple’s iPad becomes as powerful as a MacBook? Dr. Andrea Pejrolo dives into iOS26 and reveals how it’s reshaping his Music Writing and Production with the iPad course, and music production itself!

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Berklee Online Master’s Alumni Honored with 2025 Music Production Awards

For the fifth consecutive year, Enrique Gonzalez Müller has partnered with iZotope, Slate Digital, and Sweetwater Sound to award six outstanding alumni from Berklee Online’s master’s in music production program: Merrily James, Jerold Jerry, Canita Rogers, Todd Urban, Andrew Veres, and Dean Vitale. 

A live sound engineer is pictured behind a mixing board in a lively rock club with orange spotlights shining on the stage, making sure every noise coming from the stage is properly amplified, and sounds good to the audience.

Live Sound Engineering: What You Need to Start

In this excerpt from Live Event Sound Engineering and Concert Production 101, Toby Francis explores how signal flow, speaker systems, and safety protocols all contribute to producing great sound at live events.

David Mash, a Berklee Online course author and the former senior vice president of innovation, strategy, and technology for Berklee College of Music, stands against a white background, embracing one of the guitars he used to record his new album, titled Back to My Roots.

‘Back to My Roots’: David Mash Returns to Guitar After 50 Years

After losing the use of his hand in the 1970s, David Mash thought he’d never play guitar again. Nearly 50 years later, the Berklee innovator—and co-author of the Music Production 101 course—returns to his roots with a new guitar-centered album, as well as a story of resilience, reinvention, and creative legacy.

Prince Charles Alexander, Berklee Online instructor and vocal production engineer, is pictured sitting on a maroon chair, against a gray background.

Prince Charles Alexander Talks Biggie, Beyoncé, and the Secrets to Vocal Production Success

Grammy-winning producer and engineer Prince Charles Alexander discusses his career working with legends like Mary J. Blige and the Notorious B.I.G., his vocal production techniques, studio stories, and advice for aspiring music creators.