Background
Berger, Christian Wilhelm was born on June 13, 1964 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of Georg Wilhelm and Lucia (Georgescu) Berger.
Berger, Christian Wilhelm was born on June 13, 1964 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of Georg Wilhelm and Lucia (Georgescu) Berger.
Berger studied piano at George Enescu Music School in Bucharest from 1970–1982. He studied composition at the Music Academy in Bucharest, with Professor Aurel Stroe and Professor
Tiberiu Olah from 1983–1987, and received his Ph.
Doctorate. at Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca, with Professor Cornel Tãranu in 1994.
Berger privately studied the pipe organ with Ilse Maria Reich who was an organ player at a Lutheran Church in Bucharest, and with Eckart Schlandt, an organ player at the Black Church in Braşov.
Currently, Berger teaches orchestration and musical forms and analysis at the National Music University in Bucharest, and is the chef Department of Composition at the National Music University in Bucharest.
Berger is a recipient of an Honor Diploma in 1989 at the Carl Maria von Weber International String Quartet Composition Competition, in Dresden, Germany for his 9. In 1994, he took 2nd Prize at the Ernest Bloch International Composition Contest for String Orchestra in Lugano, Switzerland for “Cogito ergo sum…”, and 3rd Prize at the Orgelmusik (organ music) 2000 International Composition Contest for the Organ in 1995 at Ingolstadt, Germany for Evocation for organization Berger has performed numerous solo recitals in Romania (Bucharest, Braşov, Timişoara, Cluj-Napoca, Târgu-Mureş, etc) and in Germany (Munchen, Ingolstadt, Weinsberg, Augsburg, etc) and concerts with orchestras in Romania with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Broadcast Symphony Orchestra, and Philharmonic Orchestras from Craiova, Ploieşti, Bacău, and Târgu-Mureş.
Member Composers and Musicologist Union from Romania.
Married Monica Ramona Cengher (divorced 1990). Married Daniela Cristina Stoenescu.