Cathy Berberian
Biography
Catherine Anahid Berberian (July 4, 1925 – March 6, 1983) was an American mezzo-soprano and composer based in Italy. She worked closely with many contemporary avant-garde music composers, including Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Sylvano Bussotti, Darius Milhaud, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, and Igor Stravinsky. She also interpreted works by Claudio Monteverdi, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Kurt Weill, Philipp zu Eulenburg and others. As a recital curator, she presented several vocal genres in a classical context, including arrangements of songs by the Beatles by Louis Andriessen as well as folk songs from several countries and cultures. As a composer, she wrote Stripsody (1966), in which she exploits her vocal technique using comic book sounds (onomatopoeia), and Morsicat(h)y (1969), a composition for keyboard (with the right hand only) based on Morse code.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
260 releases · 46 albums · active 1960–2024
- Performance · 232
- Other credits · 123
- Engineering · 4
Studios: Casino Zögernitz, Vienna · Palais Rasumowsky, Vienna · Riksmixningsverket · Südwest-Tonstudio Stuttgart
Frequent collaborators
- Luciano Berio
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Berio
- Igor Stravinsky
- Stravinsky
- Various
- Gioacchino Rossini
- John Cage