Christian Berg

Bio

About Christian Berg

Christian Berg holds a Master of Arts in Theory and Composition from Montclair State College, NJ. and a Bachelor of Music in Double Bass Performance from Manhattan School of Music in N.Y.C. He has enjoyed an active career in jazz for 34 years as a performer in clubs, concerts, festivals, films, radio, and television with such leading musicians as Chuck Mangione, Jimmy Smith, Susanna McKorkle, Mel Lewis, Jimmy Knepper, Chuck Wayne, Richie Cole, Mulgrew Miller, Eddie Daniels, Fred Hersh, Warren Vache, The Widespread Depression Orchestra, John Pizzarelli, Marty Grosz, Stanley Cowell, et al. He recently became a full time member of the prestigious Columbus Jazz Orchestra and is frequently heard with the Jazz Arts Group.

He is also active as a composer/arranger and his songs, jazz compositions and chamber pieces have been performed and recorded by many artists. He has also written original music for film & television, musical theatre, and video games.

He appears on dozens of commercial recordings with such performers as The Dells, Marty Grosz, Tim Cummiskey, the CCM Faculty Jazztet, Canto Poetico, Judith Kaye, Vivian Lord, Dick Mackie, the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, Eric Brown, and many others. His CD of original compositions, “A Man is a Tree” will be released in early January of 2007 on HipGnosis Records.

As the former Director of Research and Music Development with Brain Actuated Technologies, Inc., Yellow Springs, OH. he designed, developed and patented software for brain-actuated music. He is currently the assistant professor of jazz studies at Central State University and adjunct professor of Jazz Bass at the Conservatory College of Music, University of Cincinnati.

 
Christian Berg, playing bass