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Berio was born in Oneglia . He was taught the piano by his father and grandfather who were both organists. During World War II he was conscripted into the army, but on his first day he injured his hand while learning how a gun worked. He spent time in a military hospital, before fleeing to fight in anti- Nazi groups.
Following the war, Berio studied at the Milan Conservatory under Giulio Cesare Paribeni and Giorgio Ghedini . He was unable to continue studying the piano because of his injured hand, so instead concentrated on composition. In 1947 came the first public performance of one of his works, a suite for piano.
Berio made a living at this time accompanying singing classes, and it was doing this that he met American soprano Cathy BerberianCathy Berberian ( July 4, 1928 in Attleboro, MA March 6, 1983 in Rome, Italy) was a composer, mezzo-soprano singer, and vocalist. From 1950 to 1966 she was married to composer to Luciano Berio, who deconstructed her voice in Thema (Omaggio a Joyce ( 1958), who he married shortly after graduating (they divorced in 1964). Berio would write many pieces exploiting her versatile and unique voice.
In 1951, Berio went to the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in to study with Luigi DallapiccolaLuigi Dallapiccola ( February 3, 1904 February 19, 1975), was an Italian composer who studied at the Florence Conservatory in the 1920s and became professor there in 1931. In 1956 he was appointed professor at Queens College, New York. His works widely us at TanglewoodTanglewood is a music camp located in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It has been the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home since 1937. It also houses the annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival and the programs of the Boston University Tanglewood Institu, from whom he gained an interest in serialismSerialism is a rigorous system of composing music in which various elements of the piece are ordered according to a pre-determined ordered set or sets, and variations on them. The elements thus controlled may be the pitch of the notes, their length, their. He later attended the summer school courses at DarmstadtDarmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse in Germany. Its population is estimated (2003) at 137,900. The city is located to the south of the conjoined metropolitan areas of Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. History Darmstadt was first mentione, meeting Pierre BoulezPierre Boulez (born March 26, 1925) is a conductor and composer of classical music. He was born in Montbrison, France. He initially studied mathematics at Lyon before pursuing music at the Paris Conservatoire under Olivier Messiaen and Andree Vaurabourg (, Karlheinz StockhausenKarlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22 1928) is a contemporary composer. Born in Burg Modrath, near Cologne (German: Koln , he studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule and University (1947-51), at Darmstadt in 1951 and with Olivier Messiaen in Paris (1951-53, Gyorgy Ligeti and Mauricio Kagel there. He became interested in electronic music, co-founding the Studio di Fonologia , an electronic music studio in Milan, with Bruno Maderna in 1955. He invited a number of significant composers to work there, among them Henri Pousseur and John Cage. He also produced an electronic music periodical, Incontri Musicali.
In 1960, Berio returned to Tanglewood, this time as Composer in Residence, and in 1962, on an invitation from Darius Milhaud, took a teaching post at Mills College in Oakland, California. In 1965 he began to teach at the Juilliard School, and there he founded the Juilliard Ensemble, a group dedicated to performances of contemporary music. Also in 1965, he married for the second time (he divorced again in 1971).
All this time Berio had been steadily composing and building a reputation, winning the Italian Prize in 1966 for Laborintus II. His reputation was cemented when his Sinfonia was premiered in 1968.
In 1972, Berio returned to Italy. From 1974 to 1980 he acted as director of the electro-acoustic division of IRCAM in Paris, and in 1977 he married for the third time. In 1987 he opened Tempo Reale in Florence, a centre similar in intent to IRCAM.
In 1994 he became Distinguished Composer in Residence at Harvard University, remaining there until 2000. He continuted to compose to the end of his life. Luciano Berio died in 2003 in a hospital in Rome.
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