Mark Berger, composer/violinist/violist
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Mark Berger, composer/violinist/violist
Latest news:
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Listen to me playing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 with the Gardner Chamber Orchestra
on a Gardner Museum Podcast. Download and listen here.
The Two Composers:
Composer/performers Mark Berger and Ketty Nez joined forces in the spring of 2009 for a series of concerts
mixing the new with the established, including their own music and the world premiere of Boston University faculty
Richard Cornell's "Scherzo." Upcoming projects include new commissions and performances at MIT and Clark
University. Listen to us live here.
Street Talk Suite Talk:
A powerful collaborative project combining solo violin/viola, seven dancers and seven poet-rappers. The
choreography is by Anna Myer and the score is by composer Jakov Jakoulov. The premiere performance was
filmed and two video excerpts are posted online. 4 minute video 10 minute video
Upcoming Events:
2/5/10 - Street Talk Suite Talk at Roxbury Community College
2/20/10 - The Two Composers will present a workshop for student composers at Clark University.
2/25/10 - UMass Lowell presents "Upon a Wheel of Cloud" - a faculty concert featuring a performance of Mark
Berger's Upon A Wheel Of Cloud for viola, cello and double bass, and the second half of the program
will feature The Two Composers in works by Mark Berger and Ketty Nez. 8:00pm, Durgin Hall, 35
Wilder St, Lowell, MA.
2/28/10 - The League of Composers Chamber Players will perform my String Trio No. 2, winner of the 2009
League of Composers/ISCM Composition Competition, on a program of works by Barber, Ben Johnston
and Eric Moe. 3:00pm, Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th St, New York, NY. Click for details.
3/26/10 - The Two Composers present a concert of newly commissioned works by Matt Malsky and John
Aylward along with works by Mark Berger and Ketty Nez at Clark University, 7:30pm Razzo Hall, 20
Downing St, Worcester, MA.
Archive:
1/16/10 - Worcester Chamber Music Society presented Winter Romance - a chamber music concert featuring
my piece, Spell for flute and string trio along with the Mahler Piano Quartet and the Brahms Piano Quintet.
Saturday, 1/16/10, 7:30pm, First Unitarian Church, Worcester, MA. Read the review here!
Sunday, 1/17/10, 3:00pm, Unitarian Universalist Church, Harvard, MA.
11/19/09 - The Two Composers perform sonatas for viola and piano by Peter Child and Charles Koechlin
along with works by Mark Berger and the world premiere of Ketty Nez's Transit Out.
Boston University College of Fine Arts, Marshall Room, 855 Commonwealth Ave, Boston.
11/22/09 - The Two Composers repeat the program at MIT. 3:00pm in Killian Hall.
10/18/09 - Worcester Chamber Music Society performed my String Trio No. 2.
My String Trio No. 2 has been awarded the 2009 League of Composers/ISCM prize.
7/7/09, 7/10/09 & 7/11/09 - Music at Eden's Edge commissioned and premiered Spell for flute and string trio.
5/16/09 & 5/17/09 - Worcester Chamber Music Society presented my trio for viola, cello and bass, Upon a Wheel
of Cloud Read the review here!
5/1/09 - Awarded the Ira Gershwin Prize by Brandeis University.
3/09 - 4/09 - Music at Eden's Edge presented the first movement of my work in progress, Spell for flute and string
trio, as part of its 2009 Youth Chamber Concerts - a series of free concerts performed in public elementary
schools of a program entitled "The Composer in Our Midst."
.
Listen to me playing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 with the Gardner Chamber Orchestra
on a Gardner Museum Podcast. Download and listen here.
The Two Composers:
Composer/performers Mark Berger and Ketty Nez joined forces in the spring of 2009 for a series of concerts
mixing the new with the established, including their own music and the world premiere of Boston University faculty
Richard Cornell's "Scherzo." Upcoming projects include new commissions and performances at MIT and Clark
University. Listen to us live here.
Street Talk Suite Talk:
A powerful collaborative project combining solo violin/viola, seven dancers and seven poet-rappers. The
choreography is by Anna Myer and the score is by composer Jakov Jakoulov. The premiere performance was
filmed and two video excerpts are posted online. 4 minute video 10 minute video
Upcoming Events:
2/5/10 - Street Talk Suite Talk at Roxbury Community College
2/20/10 - The Two Composers will present a workshop for student composers at Clark University.
2/25/10 - UMass Lowell presents "Upon a Wheel of Cloud" - a faculty concert featuring a performance of Mark
Berger's Upon A Wheel Of Cloud for viola, cello and double bass, and the second half of the program
will feature The Two Composers in works by Mark Berger and Ketty Nez. 8:00pm, Durgin Hall, 35
Wilder St, Lowell, MA.
2/28/10 - The League of Composers Chamber Players will perform my String Trio No. 2, winner of the 2009
League of Composers/ISCM Composition Competition, on a program of works by Barber, Ben Johnston
and Eric Moe. 3:00pm, Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th St, New York, NY. Click for details.
3/26/10 - The Two Composers present a concert of newly commissioned works by Matt Malsky and John
Aylward along with works by Mark Berger and Ketty Nez at Clark University, 7:30pm Razzo Hall, 20
Downing St, Worcester, MA.
Archive:
1/16/10 - Worcester Chamber Music Society presented Winter Romance - a chamber music concert featuring
my piece, Spell for flute and string trio along with the Mahler Piano Quartet and the Brahms Piano Quintet.
Saturday, 1/16/10, 7:30pm, First Unitarian Church, Worcester, MA. Read the review here!
Sunday, 1/17/10, 3:00pm, Unitarian Universalist Church, Harvard, MA.
11/19/09 - The Two Composers perform sonatas for viola and piano by Peter Child and Charles Koechlin
along with works by Mark Berger and the world premiere of Ketty Nez's Transit Out.
Boston University College of Fine Arts, Marshall Room, 855 Commonwealth Ave, Boston.
11/22/09 - The Two Composers repeat the program at MIT. 3:00pm in Killian Hall.
10/18/09 - Worcester Chamber Music Society performed my String Trio No. 2.
My String Trio No. 2 has been awarded the 2009 League of Composers/ISCM prize.
7/7/09, 7/10/09 & 7/11/09 - Music at Eden's Edge commissioned and premiered Spell for flute and string trio.
5/16/09 & 5/17/09 - Worcester Chamber Music Society presented my trio for viola, cello and bass, Upon a Wheel
of Cloud Read the review here!
5/1/09 - Awarded the Ira Gershwin Prize by Brandeis University.
3/09 - 4/09 - Music at Eden's Edge presented the first movement of my work in progress, Spell for flute and string
trio, as part of its 2009 Youth Chamber Concerts - a series of free concerts performed in public elementary
schools of a program entitled "The Composer in Our Midst."