Jonathan Berger

Jonathan Berger (* 1954 in New York City ) is an American composer.

Berger became known as a composer of symphonic works and concerts, chamber music, vocal music and electroacoustic music. He has received scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts , the Rockefeller Foundation, the Morse Foundation and the Mellon Foundation , two Bourges Awards for electroacoustic music, and composition commissions, among others. a. the WDR , Banff Center for the Arts , Chamber Music America , Chamber Music Denver (The Bridal Canope), Hudson Valley Chamber Circle , Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and the Jerusalem Foundation . In 2008 Miracle and Muds was released for strings on the Naxos label . The sound installations Echoes of Light and Time also became known .

In addition to his work as Billie Bennett Achilles Professor of Music Performance at Stanford University , he is co-director of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa), and the Stanford's Art Initiative and founding director of the Center for Studies in Music Technology at Yale University and teaches composition and music theory at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He also works u. a. at the Stanford Center for Studies in Music Technology researched the effects of music on the brain, the recognition and recognition of music and musical patterns and the function of music in the transport of information and has written more than 60 publications on this topic and others. a. for MIT Press , the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, and the Journal of Music Theory .

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SURNAME	Berger, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City