Judith Berkson

Judith Berkson is a composer, vocalist, and pianist. Her multi-disciplinary work explores tuning as it relates to memory and perception. She explores small spaces between similarity and difference as in her String Quartet 1 where each instrument is tuned a syntonic comma apart. Her solo project, Liederkreis, draws on 19^th century German lieder, noise, and electroacoustic performance. She is also a Cantor and officiates traditional liturgical chanting. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and on NPR. She has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, City Opera, Laurie Anderson and has worked with ensembles including Mivos Quartet, Wet Ink, Yarn/Wire, Experiments in Opera, and the Boston Microtonal Society. She has recorded for ECM Records, has written two operas. She is currently based in Los Angeles.