Jonathan Berger's orchestral, chamber, vocal and electroacoustic works have been performed throughout the world. Berger's recent commissions include Theotokia, premiered by soprano Dawn Upshaw at Spoleto USA, The Bridal Canopy (Berger's fourth string quartet, composed for the St. Lawrence String Quartet and commissioned by the Friends of Chamber Music, Denver), Memory Slips, commissioned by Chamber Music Toronto and The Lively Arts at Stanford, and a chamber work for Ensemble Plural in Madrid. Upcoming performances include The Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, Tokyo, Paris, and Toronto. Berger has received commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, WDR, the Bourges Festival. Chamber Music America, and the Mellon Fund. Miracles and Mud, Berger's recent Naxos recording of music for solo violin and string quartet has received considerable critical acclaim. Berger was the composer-in-residence at the 2010 Spoleto Festival USA. His violin concerto, Jiyeh will be released shortly on CD.
In addition to composition, Berger is an active researcher with more than 60 publications in music, science and technology. His recent research focuses on music cognition and auditory display. Currently Berger is a co-organizer of Networks & Network Analysis for the Humanities: An NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities at UCLA’s Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, where Berger has been a regular presenter.
Berger is the Denning Family Provostial Professor in Music at Stanford, and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SICA).
Discography:
- Jiyeh (violin concerto), Centaur Records, (to be released summer, 2010)
- Miracles and Mud, Naxos Records, 2007
- Echoes of Light and Time, Sony recordings, 2000
- Night Chains, CRI records, 2002