# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cathy-berberian
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:49:22.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cathy-berberian"
name: "Cathy Berberian"
slug: "cathy-berberian"
description: "Catherine Anahid Berberian was an American mezzo-soprano and composer based in Italy. She worked closely with many contemporary avant-garde music composers, including Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Sylvano Bussotti, Darius Milhaud, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, and Igor Stravinsky. She also interpreted works by Claudio Monteverdi, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Kurt Weill, Philipp zu Eulenburg and others. As a recital curator, she presented several vocal genres in a classical context, including arrangements of songs by the Beatles by Louis Andriessen as well as folk songs from several countries and cultures. As a composer, she wrote Stripsody (1966), in which she exploits her vocal technique using comic book sounds (onomatopoeia), and Morsicat(h)y (1969), a composition for keyboard based on Morse code."
tagline: "American mezzo-soprano and composer"
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gender: "female"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1925-07-04"
deathDate: "1983-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump