Mark Berger, Viola

Mark Berger, composer/violist/violinist, is very active in the Boston area and has performed with many of Boston’s finest ensembles, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Emmanuel Music, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Boston Lyric Opera.  An avid chamber musician, he is a member of the Worcester Chamber Music Society, Music at Eden’s Edge, a duo partnership, “The Two Composers,” with pianist/composer Ketty Nez, and has been a guest artist with the Lydian String Quartet.  Mark has performed at summer festivals such as Kneisel Hall, June in Buffalo, and Tanglewood, where he was a member of the New Fromm Players new music ensemble-in-residence.

Berger’s compositions have been performed by the Worcester Chamber Music Society, New York New Music Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex, ALEA III, Xanthos Ensemble, Music at Eden’s Edge, QX, the Lydian String Quartet, the Third Coast Percussion Quartet, Ensemble Permutaciones (Mexico), and the Hellenic Ensemble of Contemporary Music (Greece). Berger has been a prize winner in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Competition and the League of Composers/ISCM Competition, and has received grants from NEFA and the Brannen Cooper Fund.  Berger is currently on the music faculty at Clark University, UMass Lowell, and Middlesex Community College.