Alex Berko
Solon, OH
Music/Composition
The “stirring” (New York Times) and “intoxicating” (Philadelphia Inquirer) music of American composer Alex Berko (b. 1995) has been commissioned and performed by the Monterey Symphony, Cape Symphony, Bloomington Symphony, The Crossing, Conspirare, NOTUS Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Miró Quartet, Del Sol String Quartet, and the Boston New Music Initiative among many others. His music has received national recognition from ASCAP, SCI, ACDA, The American Prize, The Television Academy Foundation, Rice University, Cleveland Institute of Music, and more. Berko is a recent graduate of Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music where he received his MM in composition. He holds a BM in composition with an outside concentration in piano and a certificate in entrepreneurship from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.