Charles Roland Berry is an American composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

. He studied music history and music composition at the University of California

University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

 with and Peter Racine Fricker

Peter Racine Fricker

Peter Racine Fricker was an English composer who lived in the United States for the last thirty years of his life....

. Mr. Fricker taught him the intricate details of serialist music, and to discipline his musical imagination. He was not the best of students; due to his enthusiastic attitude and very short attention span. Later on, in 1982, he met Paul Creston

Paul Creston

Paul Creston was an Italian American composer of classical music.Born in New York City to Sicilian immigrants, Creston was self‐taught as a composer. He was an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity, initiated into the national honorary Alpha Alpha chapter...

 in San Diego, California

San Diego, California

San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...

, and studied composition with him for one year.

Biography

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

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

. 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 Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...

, 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

Charles Amirkhanian

Charles Amirkhanian is an American composer. He is a percussionist, sound poet, and radio producer of Armenian extraction. He is mostly known for his electroacoustic and text-sound music...

. Mr. Berry records exclusively for Centaur Records. His Cello Concerto, Symphony no. 3 and other works were released in 2008 on Centaur CD #2898.

CD reviews: American Record Guide, Fanfare Magazine.

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