Alan Bern

{ Alan Bern (Bloomington, Indiana, 1955) is an American composer, pianist, accordionist, educator and cultural activist, based in Berlin since 1987. He is the founding artistic director of Yiddish Summer Weimar and the Other Music Academy (OMA). He is internationally recognized for his contributions to the research, dissemination and creative renewal of Jewish music with Brave Old World, The Other Europeans and the Semer Ensemble, among others. He is the creator of Present-Time Composition, a musical and educational approach informed by cognitive science that integrates the methods of improvisation and composition. In 2016 he received the Weimar Prize in recognition of major cultural contributions to the city of Weimar. In 2017 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia, and in 2022 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. {

Guy Klucevsek: Hope Dies Last - 2023-12-01 00:00:00

My Choice - 2021-04-02 00:00:00

Poem of a Cell, Vol. 2: The Flowing Light of the Godhead - 2019-01-04 00:00:00

Showboat to China - 2017-05-05 00:00:00

Accordion Time Voyage - 2017-02-17 00:00:00

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