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You can purchase the Charles Ives Society Critical Edition of "Shorter Works for Piano, Vol 2: STUDIES" here. On October 20, Charles Ives' birthday, I performed his "Concord" Sonata, and "St Gaudens" (original piano version), with premieres by David Sanford and Marti Epstein at 7:30 pm, in a program titled "Other Transcendentalists." In between pieces I chatted with Executive Director Kathleen Gagne, all from Worcester's Mechanics Hall, where Thoreau and Alcott gave impassioned (and illegal) pleas for John Brown, Emerson spoke on Transcendentalism, and Frederick Douglass prophesied on the abolitionist cause in preparation for forming the 54th regiment that is remembered in Ives's "St Gaudens." David Sanford's brilliant new work, "Underground" is a tribute to Harriett Tubman, and Marti Epstein's magical piece "The Piano in the Palace Beautiful" is a tribute to Louisa May Alcott - Other Transcendentalists. For more information click here: https://conta.cc/33FCZL0 View the performance here: https://youtu.be/zET6VxnPWA0 And more news of Mechanics Hall's commissioning of its first portraits of Frederick Douglass and William Brown click here. "Flux, Ripple, Flutter" by John Aylward  Donald Berman is the featured artist on two of Sequenza 21’s list of best CDs of 2019.
Best Recordings of 2019Recording of the Year: Terry Riley, Sun Rings, Kronos Quartet, Volti (Nonesuch) George Perle Serenade for Piano and Orchestra Donald has been nominated for a GRAMMY for his work with soprano Susan Narucki on The Edge of Silence (Avie 2019)
Performances Bargemusic, May 15,2021 Bargemusic, May 31, 2019 Spring Concerts 2018 Emmanuel Music Has Another Hit Fall 2017 Press Release
Record Release Concert Rockport Chamber Music Festival Barge Music, May 27, 2016 New Yorker Preview Donald Berman Wraps Season with New Recording, Concerts in New York and Rockport Solo Recital American Masters - Boston Modern Orchestra Project Boston Musical Intelligencer Review BARGEMUSIC Masterworks Series NY Times Review BARGEMUSIC
Charles Ives Birthday Concert The Henschel Quartet Munich Beijing Modern Music Festival Pierrot Lunaire From the Lower East Side to Carnegie Hall Chamber Music with Violist Gilad Karni Reviews: Fanfare's Classical Recording Hall of Fame, August 2017Transfigured Schönberg, Transcendent Shostakovich - Sept. 27, 2011 |
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| Martin Boyken - Music for Piano Donald Berman, piano released 2014 |
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| Piano Concerto by Christopher Theofanidis with the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra released November 2011 |
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Scott Wheeler: Wasting the Night Wonderful songs by Scott Wheeler featuring 4 fabulous singers: Susanna Phillips, Krista River, Joseph Kaiser, and William Sharpe “Accompanying at the piano throughout [on Scott Wheeler’s CD of songs] is Donald Berman in one marvelously subtle performance after another, gracefully reciprocating the contrasting styles of the four singers while responding to the emotional ebb and flow of the material with perfectly pitched nuance and knowingness.” - Classical Review Wheeler's music is imaginative, varied, pungent, lyrical... |
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Americans in Rome: Music by Fellows of the
Fanfare has named "Americans in Rome: Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome" on its 2009 "Want List". "Americans in Rome," a BBC Magazine North American CD of the month In 1997, the American pianist Donald Berman forced open three old file cabinets in a musty attic above the Janiculum, the highest hill within walled Rome, and found enough years of work for each of his 10 fingers...Berman is a terrific pianist... In short, an impressive resurrection. —JEFF DUNN San Francisco Classical Voice (June 2009) "I cannot think of another set of recordings that so deftly and thoughtfully attempts an overview of the evolution of American art music, in all of its range and great energy." —PETER BURWASSER
FANFARE MAGAZINE (May/June 2009) |
 The four-CD set, Americans in Rome, attempts an overview of the evolution of American art music, in all of its range and great energy, with music from
the American Academy in Rome from 1929 and continuing to nearly the present.
With nearly five hours of material, the listener is tempted to answer the
very question of what defines American music. It may ultimately be
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The Light That is Felt: Songs by Charles Ives An American Voice, CD Reviews, Nov. 19, 2010 "There's probably no finer introduction to Ives's songs, or indeed to his output as a whole." - Andy Hamilton, "Wire" February 2009
"From the first line of Songs my Mother Taught Me, I am captivated by this New World release" - James North, FANFARE March 2009
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