Benjamin Bierman born March 15, 1954 Bierman is a composer, trumpet player, pianist, arranger, producer, and society trumpeter and band leader. He has a very wide range of experiences, and an eclectic aesthetic sensibility to match. As acomposer, his works have been performed both nationally and internationally. As a trumpet player he has performed and recorded withsuch diverse artists as B.B. King, Archie Shepp, Machito, Ray Barretto, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Johnny Copeland, Albert Collins, Robert Cray,Stevie Ray Vaughn, and James Cotton. Bierman is currently finishing his Masters Degree in composition at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where he is the Graduate Fellow at the Center for Computer Music, and he is beginning his Doctoral work in composition in the Spring of 2002 at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He has studied composition with Tania Leon, John Corigliano, and David Del Tredici. Bierman was the recipient of the Institute for Studies in American Music Award in Composition for 2000, as well as the Rosa Riegelman award for Music Scholarship.

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