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Alan Bern
Alan Bern is credited on 65 releases across 15 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1983–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
65
Pressings credited
15
Albums
5
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Alan Bern (Bloomington, Indiana, 1955) is an American composer, pianist, accordionist, educator and cultural activist, based in Berlin since 1987. He is the founding artistic director of Yiddish Summer Weimar and the Other Music Academy (OMA). He is internationally recognized for his contributions to the research, dissemination and creative renewal of Jewish music with Brave Old World, The Other Europeans and the Semer Ensemble, among others. He is the creator of Present-Time Composition, a musical and educational approach informed by cognitive science that integrates the methods of improvisation and composition. In 2016 he received the Weimar Prize in recognition of major cultural contributions to the city of Weimar. In 2017 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia, and in 2022 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Credited work
65 releases · 15 albums · active 1983–2025
- Performance · 174
- Other credits · 44
- Production · 2
- Engineering · 1
Studios: Lunapark Studios · The Hit Factory · Radio City Music Hall · Atelier des Nuages
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Brave Old World
- The Klezmatics
- Itzhak Perlman
- Various
- Forshpil
- Acquaragia Drom
- Ruth Pelham
- The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band
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