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.
–Christie Finn (compiled from online sources)
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Songs
Aria (To a Lady)
Christopher Berg
Abraham Lincoln
Song Collection: Lincoln Letters
Don't Let That Horse--
Christopher Berg
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
From Calamus
Christopher Berg
Walt Whitman
Lincoln Letters
Song CollectionChristopher Berg
Abraham Lincoln
Meditation on the Divine Will
Christopher Berg
Abraham Lincoln
Song Collection: Lincoln Letters
Soap
Christopher Berg
Abraham Lincoln
Song Collection: Lincoln Letters
Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara
Song CollectionChristopher Berg
Frank O’Hara
To the Parents of Elmer E. Ellsworth (1837-1861)
Christopher Berg
Abraham Lincoln
Song Collection: Lincoln Letters
Whiskers
Christopher Berg
Abraham Lincoln
Song Collection: Lincoln Letters
Recordings
The Three-Paneled Mirror
(Christopher Berg, Tom Cipullo and Richard Pearson Thomas)
2013
Cosmic & Domestic Matters
(Christopher Berg and Daron Aric Hagen)
2008
Songs and Encores: American Songs
(Christopher Berg)
2006
Secrets
(Christopher Berg, Tom Cipullo and Richard Pearson Thomas)
2004
Un Américain à Paris
(Christopher Berg)
2003
Paul Sperry Sings American Song Cycles & Sets
(Robert Beaser, Christopher Berg and Louise Talma)
1990