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Mark Berman is a New York City pianist, composer, producer, conductor, music director and arranger. ==Music career== Berman has performed with Aretha Franklin, Blood Sweat & Tears, Carole King, Gladys Knight, Hugh Jackman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben E King, Jackie McLean, Cornelius Bumpus, Buster Poindexter, Clark Terry, Leslie Gore, Richie Havens, Helen Reddy, Jennifer Holliday, Phil Ramone, Chita Rivera, Phoebe Snow, and Eartha Kitt. He is currently the assistant music director and pianist for the Broadway production of ''Bullets Over Broadway'' at the St. James Theater. Also on Broadway, he conducted ''Rent'', ''Smokey Joe's Cafe'', and ''Blood Brothers'' and played lead piano in the orchestras of ''The Boy From Oz'', ''Hairspray'', ''Dreamgirls'', Brooklyn The Musical, ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', ''42nd Street'', ''The Life'', ''Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark'', and others including the Public Theater of New York's production of ''Hair'' in Central Park in 2008 and its Broadway revival in 2009. He has also written additional music, a classical pas-de-deux, for ''Fame the Musical''. He is represented off-Broadway by his original music compositions for the acclaimed revival of Sidney Howard's comedy/drama ''The Late Christopher Bean'', directed by Jenn Thompson for TACT at the Beckett.〔(Broadway World website ) retrieved 2009-11-14〕 He also music directed, conducted and played piano for the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of ''Seeing Stars'', a new musical set in the world of boxing, written by Don and Jeff Breithaupt with a book by Shelley McPherson, also directed by Jenn Thompson.〔(Playbill.com ) retrieved 2009-11-14〕 His piano and keyboard playing can be heard on the theme of the HBO series ''Sex and the City''. Berman has written additional music for the program and can be seen on an episode.〔(HBO.com, Music of ''Sex and the City'', 2008 )〕 He has also written music for Bravo, the Food Network, ''Nurse Jackie'', the Showtime series and a variety of network daytime series. Among Berman's television appearances are ''The Today Show'', ''Good Morning America'', The Rosie O'Donnell Show, PBS, and a variety of soap operas. He has performed in jazz clubs around the world including The Blue Note, Rainbow Room, Birdland, The Cutting Room, the Supper Club and Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center. Berman has appeared at Weil Hall at Carnegie Hall, at Merkin Hall at Lincoln Center, and can be heard on numerous recordings. Berman has also written and produced commercial jingles for the Campbell Soup Company, Armour hot dogs and Sara Lee. In 2006, Berman was music director of ''Jam & Spice'', a "jazzy" Kurt Weill revue at the Westport Country Playhouse, in Westport, Connecticut. He received strong praise for his playing and conducting from ''Variety'',〔(''Variety'' Review ) by Frank Rizzo, 2006-06-05〕 the ''Hartford Courant''〔"Testa Is the Spice of the Show", review by Malcolm Johnson, The ''Hartford Courant'', 2006-06-06〕 and other publications. He returned to the Westport Country Playhouse in the summer of 2007 to be music director of ''Being Alive'', a musical based on the work of Stephen Sondheim but with arrangements in soul, blues, jazz, R & B, gospel and hip-hop styles. Once again, he received critical acclaim for both his playing and music direction.〔(''Variety'' Review ) by Frank Rizzo, 2007-08-27〕 Berman was music director, arranger, and orchestrator of ''Marcy in the Galaxy'', a world premier musical presented by The Transport Group at the Connelly Theater in New York City. Berman returned to the Westport Country Playhouse in 2008 to be the music director, lead pianist and the arranger of additional music for ''Hot n' Cole: A Cole Porter Celebration'', directed by Tony Award winning actor James Naughton. His piano playing was cited as "dazzling" by ''Variety''.〔("Variety" Review ) by Frank Rizzo,2008-06-08〕 Of his arrangement and musical direction of "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" Theatermania wrote, "the entire ensemble is flawless, with the Hi-Lo's-like harmonies a treat Porter himself would have praised."〔("Theatermania" Review ) by David Finkle 2008-06-16〕 Berman has written the theme and additional music for Kidnapped by the Kids, which premiered on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey television network, on April 4, 2011. He also played piano on an episode of Royal Pains during season 3 on the USA Network in 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Berman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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