Derek Bermel

Derek Bermel
Born1967 (age 56–57)
New York City, New York, U.S.
OccupationComposer

Derek Bermel (born 1967, in New York City) is an American composer, clarinetist and conductor whose music blends various facets of world music, funk and jazz with largely classical performing forces and musical vocabulary. He is the recipient of various awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship[1] and the American Academy in Rome's Rome Prize awarded to artists for a year-long residency in Rome.[2]

  1. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow list Archived 2012-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Van Cliburn Foundation composer profile". Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2011-07-19.