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the Monterey Symphony, Cape Symphony, Plymouth Philharmonic, Bloomington
Symphony, Donald Nally, The Crossing, Craig Hella Johnson, Conspirare, NOTUS
Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Cathedral Choral Society and the Washington
National Cathedral, Del Sol String Quartet, Boston New Music Initiative, Arabic/jazz
artist Nai Barghouti and jazz/folk duo Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz.

Berko has received two consecutive ASCAP Morton Gould Awards for his
orchestra and choral music (2022/2021). Another recent project in collaboration
with composer Daniel Bayot and the Lebron James Family Foundation landed
Berko a regional EMMY ® for his music. His work has also received national
recognition from the Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI/ASCAP commission), The
American Prize (Choral Music Division), American Choral Directors Association
(Brock Memorial Prize), DownBeat Magazine (Best Arrangement), Rice University
(Paul and Christiane Cooper Prize), and Cleveland Institute of Music (Carl E.
Baldassarre Composer/Performer Award).

Berko’s Lincoln was included on The Crossing’s album, Rising w/ The Crossing
released by New Focus Records. The album was met with critical acclaim: It was
nominated for a 2022 GRAMMY ® for Best Choral Performance and was included
in The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 by the New York Times and NPR’s A
Diary Of Classical Albums For A Troubled 2020.

Berko holds a MM in composition from Rice University’s Shepherd School of
Music where he was a Brown Fellow. He received his BM in composition, an
outside concentration in piano, and a certificate in entrepreneurship from Indiana
University’s Jacobs School of Music.

Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 Ludwig van Beethoven
(“Pastoral Symphony”) (1770 — 1827)
Excerpts: Music from movements 1, 4 & 5

Beethoven’s even-numbered symphonies often are deemed secondary to his
odd-numbered ones, which, after all, include the indisputably momentous Eroica
(#3), Fifth (#5) and Choral (#9). Yet Beethoven’s 1808 Symphony # 6 in F major
(“Pastoral”), Op. 68, although seemingly more modest, is every bit as influential.
Together with the Symphony #5 in c-minor, Op. 67, it displays the two poles of his
creative personality.

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