Bert Van Herck is faculty at New England Conservatory. He holds a PhD from Harvard University where he studied with Magnus Lindberg, Julian Anderson, Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough, and Helmut Lachenmann. With Hans Tutschku, he studied electroacoustic music. In the fall of 2006 he was an exchange scholar at Columbia University, working with Tristan Murail. Besides his compositional activities, his interest in music theory has lead to presentations in international conferences on the music by Oliver Knussen, spectral music, and the music of Magnus Lindberg.
Contact : bert.vanherck@necmusic.edu
Séance - Leaving – and Regaining – the Shores of Tonality 5.F.2 : The Evolution of Scriabin’s Language Through the Evolution of the Mystic Chord