Donald Berman

Piano

Pianist Donald Berman is recognized as a chief exponent of new works by living composers, overlooked music by 20th century masters, and recitals that link classical and modern repertoires. His 2-volume The Unknown Ives represents the only recording of the complete short piano works of Charles Ives extant. The Uncovered Ruggles offers premiere recordings of unpublished sketches, transcriptions, and realizations of Ruggles' music. Recent recordings include the 4-CD set Americans in Rome and, with Susan Narucki, The Light That Is Felt: Songs of Charles Ives.

Recent concerts include premieres of Christopher Theofanidis's Piano Concerto with orchestras of Belgrade, Serbia, Columbus, Ohio, and Hartford, CT and an electro-acoustic program When Brahma Sleeps presented at (le) Poisson Rouge (NYC). He received the 2010 Classical Recording Foundation's Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award.

Mr. Berman is a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard for 2010-11. He teaches at Tufts University and co-directs the New England Conservatory Summer Piano Institute. He is Treasurer of the Charles Ives Society and on the Executive Board of Art of the States. A prizewinner of the 1991 Schubert International Competition, Berman studied with Leonard Shure, John Kirkpatrick, George Barth, and Mildred Victor.