Donald Gorder (’73) is one of nine alumni named to the 2025 class of Alumni Masters by the Nebraska Alumni Association. He will be on campus April 10-11 and honored at the Nebraska Medallion Dinner.
Gorder is the chair emeritus and founder of the Music Business/Music Management Department at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He spent nearly 30 years building Berklee’s music business program into a national leader, retiring in 2021. He is also a performing musician and practicing attorney.
Gorder earned a Bachelor of Music degree in trumpet performance from UNL and before beginning his career in music business education, earned a law degree from the University of Denver. He is vice president of the National Association of Music Merchants Affiliated Music Business Institutions and sits on the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.