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Mark Berger attended Boston University where he completed his undergraduate studies in violin with Roman Totenberg and viola with Steven Ansell. Mr. Berger has performed in summer festivals such as the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center, where he was twice invited back as a memeber of the New Fromm Players - a small ensemble dedicated to the performance of difficult new chamber works. Mr. Berger is a highly active violist and violinist in the Boston area and has recently performed with ensembles such as the Lydian String Quartet, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Lyric Opera, Emmanuel Music, Music at Eden's Edge, ALEA III Contemporary Music Ensemble, as well as the New World, Vermont, and Albany Symphonies. As a composer, Mr. Berger received his master’s degree from Boston University where he studied with Lukas Foss and Theodore Antoniou. Mr. Berger’s compositions have been performed by ensembles such as the New York New Music Ensemble, the Lydian String Quartet, ALEA III, the Harvard Group for Contemporary Music, New Music Brandeis, Studio New Music (in residence at the Moscow Conservatory), and the Hellenic Ensemble of Contemporary Music (Athens, Greece). Mr. Berger is a member of the music faculty at Middlesex Community College in Bedford, MA, and is currently a PhD candidate at Brandeis University where is director of the New Music Brandeis concert series. He studies composition with David Rakowski and Martin Boykan. |
| Contact Mark at berger2000@verizon.net for more information. | |
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Notturno for String Quartet |
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| Notturno for String Quartet.mp3 - complete | |||
| Notturno for String Quartet.pdf - complete | |||
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Notturno was written for the Lydian String Quartet and was premiered in November, 2005. | |||
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Reflections for Violin Solo |
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| Reflections for Violin Solo.mp3 - complete | |||
| Reflections for Violin Solo.pdf - complete | |||
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Composed in honor of Roman Totenberg's 95th birthday. Premiered at Boston University in February, 2006. | |||
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Percussion Quartet |
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| Percussion Quartet.mp3 - complete | |||
| Percussion Quartet.pdf - complete | |||
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Commissioned by the Third Coast Percussion Quartet as part of their Living Music Project. Recording is a live performance from May 12, 2006 at Northeaster Illinois University. | |||
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Quartet for Violin, Cello, Percussion and Piano |
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| Quartet for Violin, Cello, Percussion and Piano.mp3 - complete | |||
| Quartet for Violin, Cello, Percussion and Piano.pdf - complete | |||
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Written in 2005 for New Music Brandeis. | |||
©2005 by Mark Berger
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Mark Berger is a member of Society of Composers, Inc. SCI is dedicated to the promotion of composition, performance, understanding and dissemination of new and contemporary music.