Jonathan Berger

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

Berger became known as a composer of symphonic works and concertos, chamber music, vocal music and electro-acoustic music. He received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, among others the Morse Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, two Bourges prices for electroacoustic music and composition commissions the WDR, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Chamber Music America, the Chamber Music Denver ( The Bridal Canope ), the Hudson Valley Chamber Circle, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and the Jerualem Foundation. 2008 Miracle and muds appeared for Strings at the Naxos label. The sound installations Echoes of Light and Time became known.

Besides 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 Stanford 's Art Initiative and founding director of the Center for Studies in Music Technology, Yale University and teaches composition and music theory at the Center for computer Research in Music and Acoustics ( CCRMA ). He also works among others at the Stanford Center for Studies in Music Technology at the scientific research on the effects of music on the brain, of cognition and recognition of music and musical patterns and the function of music in the transportation of information and authored more than 60 publications on this subject, inter alia, for the MIT Press, the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society and the Journal of Music Theory.

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