MUSIC AS MEDICINE – NONFICTION

SHELLY BERG is a Steinway piano artist and five-time Grammy-nominated arranger, orchestrator, and producer. His newest album, Alegría, was recorded with bassist Carlitos Del Puerto and Dafnis Prieto and released July 2024 on ArtistShare. Prior albums Gershwin Reimagined: An American in London (Decca Gold), The Deep (Chesky), The Nearness of You (Arbors), Blackbird (Concord), and The Will (CARS) are critically acclaimed. Berg earned three Grammy nominations in the Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) category with jazz singer-lyricist Lorraine Feather and international superstar Gloria Estefan, and a fourth Grammy nomination as co-producer of Gloria Estefan: The Standards (Sony). He earned his fifth Grammy nomination as co-arranger of “I Loves You Porgy/There’s a Boat That’s Leavin’ Soon for New York” from the album Rendezvous (2018), featuring jazz singers Clint Holmes and Dee Dee Bridgewater with The Count Basie Orchestra. An award-winning educator with more than 40 years of leadership in higher education, Berg is dean and the Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. His textbooks include Essentials of Jazz Theory, the Chop-Monster beginning improvisation series, Rhythm Section Workshop for Jazz Directors (Alfred Music), and Jazz Improvisation: The Goal-Note Method (Kendor). He has appeared as a performer and lecturer throughout the United States as well as in Canada, China, Mexico, Europe, Israel, Japan, Romania, and Venezuela.