About Mariel

Mariel Berger started playing piano when she was 4 years old. She attended Indiana University, studying jazz piano, and went on to receive an M.A. at William Paterson in composition and jazz arranging, studying with Jim McNeely. In 2005, Mariel had the honor to arrange charts that featured Joe Lovano and Kenny Garrett. In 2006 she was a member of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, and in 2007 her music premiered at the Renee Weiler Concert Hall for the Women's Work Series. In the summer of 2009 she opened up for Mos Def, playing keyboard with the singer, Lilla D'Mone. Mariel was a recipient of the 2011 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards for her piece, Clarity.

You can hear her now playing accordion in Anicha (contemporary chamber music), Paper Snakes (experimental Balkan music), the Berger sisters (Cajun and Klezmer duo with her fiddling sister, Melody), the Dustin, Shannon, and Mariel trio, and on piano with her own quartet, featuring her original compositions.

Listen

• by: Mariel Berger
  featuring:
  
  Mariel Berger, voice/accordion
  Roberta Michel, flute
  Nicole Camacho, flute
  Kyungmi Lee, flute
  Sara Serpa, voice
  Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon
  
• by: Mariel Berger
  
  featuring:
  
  Mariel Berger, piano
  
• by: Mariel Berger
  
  featuring:
  
  Mariel Berger, prepared piano/marbles/bouncy ball
  Ed Ruch, kernels/bowls/popcorn machine
  Lauren Links, kernels/bowls
• by: Mariel Berger
  
  featuring:
  
  Mariel Berger, accordion
  Dustin Carlson, guitar
  Shannon Barnett, trombone
  
• by: Shannon Barnett
  
  featuring:
  
  Mariel Berger, accordion
  Dustin Carlson, banjo
  Shannon Barnett, trombone
  
• by: Mariel Berger
  
  Anicha:
  
  Mariel Berger, accordion
  Mark Small, bs. clarinet
  Jean Rohe, voice
  Sebastian Noelle, guitar
  Satoshi Takeishi, percussion
• by: Mariel Berger
  
  featuring:
  
  Mariel Berger, piano/voice
  

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