Charles Roland Berry (born 1957 in

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) is an American

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. He studied music history and music composition at the

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with Peter Racine Fricker, which whom he also studied serialism. In 1982, he met

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, and studied composition with him for one year.

Biography

For a time, he hosted a classical radio program on KBOO, community radio, in

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. He would host telephone interviews with famous composers. Some of these people included; Benjamin Lees, John Cage, George Crumb, George Rochberg, Ned Rorem, Karel Husa, and William Schuman. Berry edited the interviews to make them a half-hour in length, often adding excerpts of the particular composers music. In

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, he became acquainted with the Hungarian cellist, composer, and former conductor for the Honolulu Symphony, George Barati. In the 1990s he presented performances of his music in San Francisco with George Barati, Lou Harrison, and an electronic composer, Charles Amirkhanian. Mr. Berry records exclusively for Centaur Records. His Cello Concerto, Symphony No. 3 and other works were released in 2008 on Centaur CD #2898. {{DEFAULTSORT:Berry, Charles Roland American male composers 21st-century American composers Living people 1957 births Interlochen Center for the Arts alumni Musicians from Boston 21st-century American male musicians Centaur Records artists