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Biography
David Berlin is a composer, music educator, educational content developer and arts
education consultant. He has collaborated extensively in dance-theatre and multi-artist,
performances, such as Furoshiki, After the Fall, M. C. Richards Sound Fugue, and Out
of the Deep, with poet Rosaly Roffman and choreographer Holly Boda-Sutton, performed
at the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, Indiana University of PA, Beaver Valley PA for a
teacher training program and elsewhere. The Little Match Girl; Landscape of Sorrow
with Rosaly Roffman and choreographer Karen Clemente, performed in Philadelphia.
Lada in the Linden, a site-specific piece created for the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in
collaboration with Poet Rosaly Roffman and Storyteller Stephany Fromm. Over the
years, he has collaborated on numerous occasions with the choreographer Pat McKeown,
creating music for works such as Doctor Zoology, Memoirs, Clippings, Modnoc,
Characters and Critters, Christopher's Quest and No More Masks. He also collaborated
with Poet Lynn Emanuel, McKewon Interarts Co. and a collection of puppet makers and
visual artists in Hotel Fiesta and Palindromos. He created music for Linda Miller of the
Pittsburgh Dance Alloy, the dance company "Orchasis" and dancer Celeste Beerman of
Bowling Green University (Ohio) for an international electronic music festival that was
held there. Dear Boy, his first collaboration in musical theatre with librettist/lyricist
Jeanne Drennan, received a developmental workshop and public reading and singing in
2010, produced by the Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre.
His output is primarily orchestral and chamber music and his compositions have been
performed by such groups as the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia
Classical Symphony Orchestra, the Laureate Woodwind Quintet, the Renaissance City
Woodwind Quintet, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and the Sterbrooke Ensemble
at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan and at the Galopogos Art Space in Brooklyn.
Internationally, his work has been performed by the Cuarteto de Saxófones de Barcelona,
and by Ensemble HND in Sweden. In 2010 his work for three cellos and percussion,
“Critical Response,” had its world premiere performed by the rock cello band "Cello
Fury" at PA Intermediate Unit 1 in California, PA. His piece “DNA” was written for a
project called "360 degrees of 60x60" (Burgundy Mix). It is a large-scale collaborative
piece with 59 other composers and video artist Patrick Liddell, and has been presented
repeatedly, both nationally and internationally.
He took his training at Carnegie Mellon University and his doctorate at West Virginia
University. His 47 year teaching career ranges from third grade students through graduate
school. At Carnegie Mellon, he taught instrumental methods, brass methods, secondary
methods, band arranging and repertoire, student teacher supervision, music theory,
composition, and subsequently became Coordinator of Graduate Studies. He still
teaches there part-time where he gives an on-line theory and composition course through
the Department of Special Music Programs. In addition to numerous other professional
organizations for educators and composers he is a member of the American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers and the Society of Composers.