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Christopher Berg
12+ albums
loungeClassicalclassical guitaramericansolo guitar
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(Christopher Berg is a well-known classical guitarist, performer, composer, and teacher. He is not the person in the photograph.) Christopher Berg received his training at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, in master classes with Andrés Segovia at the University of Southern California, and at the Schola Cantorum Basilensis in Switzerland . He has performed recitals in Carnegie Recital Hall and Merkin Hall in New York in addition to hundreds of recital and concerto appearances throughout the United States including the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago. His New York debut concert at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1981 was praised by the New York Times for its "special sensitivity." Recent tours have included recitals at the New England Guitar Festival in Boston , the Radford University International Guitar Festival in Virginia , the Appalachian Guitar Festival in Boone , NC , and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is a professor of music at the University of South Carolina where he directs the classical guitar program and in 2008 was named a Carolina Distinguished Professor, the university’s highest honor. His students have won top prizes in regional and national competitions. During 1999-2000 he was honored by the University of South Carolina as a recipient of a Michael J. Mungo Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and in 2003 he was awarded the Cantey Outstanding Faculty Award by the School of Music for performance, research and teaching. In 2
