Christopher Berg
1949 -Composer Christopher Berg has set the poetry of several American poets in his songs, including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank O'Hara, Gertrude Stein, and Walt Whitman.
Photo: Christopher Berg, publicity photo, Liegner Management website
About
Born in Detroit, Christopher Berg studied piano at Manhattan School of Music and is largely self-taught as a composer.
Berg's most well-known compositions are his twelve Songs on Poems by Frank O'Hara, composed from 1985-88. He has been the recipient of grants from Meet the Composer, American Music Center, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, and has been a Yaddo fellow.
For more information about Berg, please visit the links listed to the right.
--Christie Finn
Source: Liegner Management website
