Derek Bermel

Two-time Grammy-nominated composer-clarinetist Derek Bermel’s music has been commissioned and performed by a dizzyingly eclectic array of some of today’s most celebrated artists and institutions on major stages across the globe, including the Pittsburgh, National, Saint Louis, New Jersey, Boston, and Pacific Symphonies, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles, New Century, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, WNYC Radio, eighth blackbird, the Guarneri and JACK String Quartets, Seattle and La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Figura (Denmark) Ensemble, Midori, ASKO/Schoenberg Ensemble and Veenfabriek (Netherlands). He has collaborated on several film scores, and with playwright Will Eno, installation artist Shimon Attie, choreographer Sheron Wray, hip hop legend Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), and he has been recognized as a dynamic and unconventional curator of concert series. Founding Clarinetist of the Music from Copland House ensemble, he is Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, Director of Copland House’s CULTIVATE emerging composer’s institute, Curator of Gamper Festival at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and was Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for Advance Study in Princeton and Seattle Symphony. He has performed his own clarinet concerto with orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and has premiered and performed on four continents works by hundreds of composers.