Recent Commissions and other New Works:

• Four Episodes for Cello and Piano, commissioned by Svetlana Kossyreva-Lishcke, 2006.
• The Months, Duet Cycle for soprano and tenor, commissioned by Mirror Visions Ensemble, 2006.
• Love Letter (for Bastiaan), for orchestra, 2005.
• Démangeaisons: Chabrier in his own words, commissioned by Mirror Visions Ensemble;
  first performance: Paris, 2005.
• "Nocturnes and Preludes", for piano;
  first performance: Paris, 2005.
• "Songs of Leisure", [Poems by Carol Kner];
  first performance: Paris, 2005.
• "We have heard the Chimes at Midnight", for orchestra, commissioned by the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, Oliver Prezant, conductor;
  first performance: June 2004.
• "Manic Etude", for piano, commissioned by Bennett Lerner;
  first performance: Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2004.
• "The Night Gallery", song (poem by Jeffrey Greene), commissioned by Mirror Visions Ensemble;
  first performance: New York City, November 2003.
• "Montparnasse! Bienvenue!", for piano duet, commissioned by Bennett Lerner;
  first performance: Paris, October 2003.
• "La Moisson", song, (poem by Robert Desnos);
  first performance: New York City, February 2002, Scott Murphree and Israel Gursky;
• Les Loisirs de la Poste, (song cycle; Mallarmé), commissioned by Mirror Visions Ensemble;
  first performance: Paris, March 2002.
• Portrait en Miniature de Madame de Sévigné, cantata for three singers and piano, commissioned by Mirror Visions Ensemble;
  first performance: Paris, March 2002.
• Cymbeline, opera in three acts after Shakespeare adapted by the composer, fourteen solo singers, chorus, orchestra.
  first performance: concert reading with piano June 2001, New York.
• From "Calamus" (Whitman), commissioned by Robert Leuze;
  first performance: New York, April 2002.
• Ode on a Grecian Urn (Keats), co-commission: Joy of Singing & James Goldsworthy;
  first performances: Princeton University, NJ, March 2001; Judith Bettina & James Goldsworthy, Merkin Concert Hall, NY, April 2001; Meagan Miller & Stephen Beck.
• Hommage à Francis Poulenc (Desnos), commissioned by Mirror Visions Ensemble;
  first performance: Edinburgh, Scotland, March 2000, Tobé Malawista and Richard Lalli, subsequently in London, Cambridge, Paris and New York.
• Two Oscar Wilde Sonnets commissioned by Richard Lalli;
  first performance: Yale University, October 1999, Richard Lalli and Christopher Berg.
• L'intelligence et la musicalité chez les animaux (Satie), commissioned by Mirror Visions Ensemble;
  first performance: Paris, September 1996, Tobé Malawista, Scott Murphree and Richard Lalli.
• Tango Meditation for Two Pianos, commissioned by the Southeast Asian Piano Quartet;
  first performance: Bangkok, Thailand, 1995.
• Five "Russian" Lyrics (Perry Brass), commissioned by Positive Music;
  first performance: November 1994, Christopher Trakas and Chamber Ensemble; two subsequent performances, both at Weill Recital Hall, including one by New York Festival of Song.
• String Quartet No. 2, Ensemble of Santa Fe;
  first performance: November 1994
• A Lover's Cosmology and the Meaning of Hell (Goethe, Auden, the Psalmist);
  first performance: Janice Felty and String Quartet (Santa Fe), spring 1993.
• Don Juan Comes Back from the War (incidental music)
  first performance: Classic Stage Company, spring 1996 (directors Annie B. Parson and Paul Lazar)
• Mass for soprano solo, SATB and orchestra, 1979

Other Performances:

• Ossessione (Omaggio a Busoni), Bennett Lerner, pianist, on tour in US, Thailand, Paris, Tokyo, 2003
• O'Hara Songs, featured on opening concert of New York Festival of Song, 2003
• Hommage à Francis Poulenc at the Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA, in connection with the exhibition "Pennsylvania Impressionists", March 2001; Claudia Hommel and Christopher Berg.
• Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara at the Parrish Museum, Southampton, New York, in connection with the exhibition "In Memory of My Feelings", summer 2000, Scott Murphree and Alvin Novak.
• Four Songs on Poems of Vladimir Nabokov, International Vladimir Nabokov Festival, September 1998, Cornell University; Theodore Roosevelt House, NY, April 2000, Dorothy Bishop and Mitchell Cirker.
• Many Rooms (Omaggio a F.B.), Robert Helps, piano as part of the Composers Collaborative "Solo Flights" series, NYC; also performances in California and Florida.
• Excerpts from Songs on Poems by Frank O'Hara, Kurt Ollmann, Baritone, Tanglewood and Wigmore Hall, London.
• "Songbook" (songs for the theater), various Broadway Theater performers including Rachel York, Meg Bussert, Michael Gruber, Arts and Artists at St. Paul's/National Music Theater Network, at Donnell Library, NYC, October 1994.
• Back Home (musical; lyrics Frank Evans; dir. John Zndarsic) production at New Hope Theater Festival, summer 1994.
• Not Waving but Drowning (Stevie Smith); Janice Felty, Santa Fe Chamber Orchestra, cond. Robert Wingert, Santa Fe, spring 1993.
• Numerous university and conservatory performances (Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, Eastman School, et al)

Recordings:

• "Music by My Friends", Bennett Lerner, pianist; several pieces by Christopher Berg, Albany Records, 2004
• "Un Américain à Paris", featuring French language works composed for Mirror Visions Ensemble, Albany Records, 2003
• Why Else Do You Have An English Horn . . . (poems by V.R. Lang) Elaine Stritch and Thomas Stacy, Cala Records 1998
• Poem from Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara, Carl Halvorsen and Susan Amasi, Musical Heritage Society 1992
• Songs on Poems of Frank O'Hara, Paul Sperry and Irma Vallecillo, Albany Records 1991
• "Poem", Christopher Trakas and Steven Blier, Music Masters 1989
• Six Songs (G. Stein, N. Hill, T. Dlugos, La Fontaine) Janice Felty and Christopher Berg, Opus One 1979

Publications:

• All works published by Tender Tender Music, distributed by Classical Vocal Reprints
• Anthologies: E.C. Schirmer, Oxford University Press

Grants and Awards:

• American Music Center (two copying grants)
• Meet the Composer (three travel grants)
• Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music (recording grant)
• National Endowment for the Arts (two grants, Opera/Music Theater program)