Derek Bermel

Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel is Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra and Director of Copland House’s emerging composers institute, Cultivate. He is recognized as a dynamic and unconventional curator of concert series’ that spotlight the composer as performer. His ongoing engagement with other musical cultures has become part of the fabric and force of his compositional language, in which the human voice and its myriad inflections play a primary role.  http://www.derekbermel.com/