PhD Doctor in Humane Letters (Honorary) DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 2003
M.A. Wesleyan University, 1970
B.A. Antioch College, 1969
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Leeds International Jazz Conference (March 25-27, 2010), December 2010
Fellow, National Humanities Center, 0 2010
Feature article in Duke Dialogue, December 2007
Distinguished Professorship Award: Arts and Science Professor of Music in Trinity College of Music, Duke University, December, 2006
The Langford Lectureship Award, 2006
Distinguished Visitor Award, School of Music, University of Toronto, December, 2005
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, June, 2004
Fellows, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 0 2004
Fellowships for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 0 2002
External Faculty Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, 0 2001
Certificate of Appreciation for “Outstanding Service to Jazz Education”, International Association of Jazz Educators, 1996
Fellow, National Humanities Center, 0 1996
Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 0 1996
A feature article about Thinking in Jazz appears in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume XLI, Number 28, March 28, 1995
Alan Merriam Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 0 1995
Alan Merriam Prize for Outstanding Book in Ethnomusicology, The Society for Ethnomusicology, 1995
ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research for “Best Research in the Field of Recorded Jazz and Blues”, The Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 1995
Exemplar in Music Teaching Award, Northwestern University, 1995
Finalist distinction in category of “Adult Non-Fiction 1995”, The Society of Midland Authors, 1995
Berliner, PF. "“Art Farmer on Jazz Learning and Improvisation”." Jazzforschung / Jazz Research Volume 39 (December, 2007).
Berliner, PF. "Afropop Worldwide Interview [Improvisation in Jazz and Zimbabwean Music]." (2007). [Ethnomusicologist]
Articles in Books
Berliner, PF. "photograph of mbira performance techique." appears in Christine Lucia’s book, Music notation: A South African Guide Unisa Press 2010.
Recordings
Berliner, PF. Playing it forward. January, 2007 . (Interview by Jacob Dagger) [html]
Berliner, PF. The Heart that Remembers: A Tale of Zimbabwe’s Musicians in a Time of War. 2007 . (in progress)
Commissions:
Paul F. Berliner: Performances, 1991 - 1999, 1999/01/01
with Cosmas Magaya; Bjorn Alterhaug; KUDU; Howard Levy Group; Joan Wildman Group; Paul Berliner
Paul F. Berliner: Solo Performances, 1994 - 1995, 1995/01/01
with Paul Berliner
Performances:
An Evening of Mbira Music, Paul Berliner and Mbira Master Cosmas Magaya, Duke Coffee House, undefined, 2010
Other Activities:
The Soul of Mbira and Zimbabwe: Shona Mbira Music, 2002/01/01
with Paul Berliner
Earth: Voices of A Planet (The Paul Winter Consort), 1989/01/01
with Paul Berliner
Claudia Schmidt, 1979/01/01
with Paul Berliner
The Sun Rises Late Here, 1979/01/01
with Paul Berliner
Common Ground (The Paul Winter Consort), 1978/01/01
with Paul Berliner
