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About Mahlon

Mahlon Berv will begin a Master of Composition in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music, London Fall 2014. He recently graduated from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in composition and philosophy.





Mahlon's music has been performed across the U.S. including
venues such as Yale University, Mannes College, Indiana University, Bard College, and Webster
Community Music School. He received First Place in the 2010 Webster Community Music School Young
Composers Competition, New York Art Ensemble Emerging Composer 2011, Finalist in the 2010 ASCAP
Morton Gould Young Composer Competition, and Indiana University Dean’s Award in Composition 2009.
Mahlon has experience composing orchestral and chamber concert music, music for the theatre,
and music for film. In 2012 Mahlon conducted the premiere of his musical comedy, Aureus, at the IU
Theatre and Drama School to an audience of 60 people. He worked as a songwriter at the Palace Theatre of
Brown County in Nashville Indiana. In 2012 Mahlon paired up with screenwriter Miyako Fuqua to write
the film score for the animated short Broken Bulbs. He also composed a trio for viola, oboe and harp, and a
piece for solo violin to accompany an artwork by Roland Ricketts with the New Art New Music Project at
IU. In 2010, Mahlon’s orchestral composition, Circus Fanfare, was premiered by the Jonathan Edwards
College Philharmonic at Yale University.
He has studied with Don Freund, Claude Baker, Aaron Travers, and PQ Phan, and worked with Eleanor
Cory and Keith Fitch at Mannes Preparatory Division. Mahlon studied piano with Luba Dubinsky and
Oxana Yablonskaya of the Juilliard School.

Mahlon has an active youtube account and last.fm page, with a combined view-count of over
40,000. (www.last.fm/music/mahlon+berv)
Mahlon is an ardent fan of film music, loving everything from Bernard Hermann, John Williams
and Korngold to Don Davis, Hans Zimmer, Philip Glass, and Bear Mcreary. In addition to music, Mahlon
studies philosophy as his second major. He is especially passionate about the Upanishads, Sartre’s
existentialism, Schopenhauer, and Zen Buddhism

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