Luciano Berio

Berio taught at Tanglewood in 1960, at Dartington in 1961-62, at Mills College from 1962-64, and at the Juilliard School from 1965-71, where in 1967, he founded the Juilliard Ensemble. In 1972, he returned to Italy, and worked in collaboration with Pierre Boulez at IRCAM from 1974-80, as director of the electroacoustic department. In 1993-94, he was Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University and in 1999, he took over as interim director of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome (and was elected its President and Artistic Director in 2000).He has received numerous awards, including Honorary Doctorates from universities in London (1980), Siena (1995) and Edinburgh and Turin (1999). He has also received the Ernst von Siemens-Musikpreis (Munich, 1989), the Prize of the Wolf Foundation (Jerusalem, 1991), the Leone d'oro from the Venice Biennale (1995), and the Praemium Imperiale (a Japanese arts and culture prize, 1996). Most recently, he received the Premio Internazionale Luigi Vanvitelli (Caserta, 2001). His works have been performed across the world by many leading ensembles, including l'Ensemble InterContemporain, l'Ensemble Musique Vivante, the Juilliard Ensemble, the King's Singers, the London Voices, the Pierrot Players, the Raschèr Saxophonquartett, and the Swingle Singers. Conductors of his music include Daniel Barenboim, Bruno Bartoletti, Pierre Boulez, Ernest Bour, Marcello Bufalini, Riccardo Chailly, Michael Gielen, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mariss Jansons, Lorin Maazel, Diego Masson, Eduardo Mata, Hans Rosbaud, Paul Sacher, Leif Segerstam, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Ward Swingle, Edo de Waart, and David Zinman.