John Bergamo
John Bergamo (1940-2013) was an American percussionist and composer who founded the percussion program at the California Institute of the Arts in 1970 and taught there until 2005. He studied Indian drumming traditions in depth, and his work moved between contemporary composition, world percussion and session playing on film soundtracks such as Altered States. Bergamo studied with Max Roach at the Lenox School of Jazz in 1959 and took a master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music in 1962. In 1964 he joined the Creative Associates, the Buffalo group formed by Lukas Foss.
Mary Jane Leach, Gordon Mumma, Charles Amirkhanian, Peter Garland, John Zorn, Lois V. Vierk, Gordon Monahan, Mamoru Fujieda, Sarah Hopkins, John Bergamo
Soundings XVI (book)16th volume of the Soundings collection of scores and texts edited by Peter Garland published in 1990 and including works by John Zorn, Sarah Hopkins, Lois V Vierk, Mary Jane Leach, Mamoru Fujieda, Charles Amirkhanian, Gordon Mumma, Gordon Monahan, John Bergamo and Garland himself.