Ernest Berk

Ernest Berk (1909-1993) was a German dancer, choreographer and composer of electronic music, born in Cologne. He left Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s and spent most of his working life in London, where he made ballets for theatres and festivals. From 1955 he made tape music in a home studio in Camden and went on to write a large body of electronic work, much of it for dance, very little of which was released in his lifetime. Berk married the dancer Lotte Heymansohn (Lotte Berk) in 1933.