A historian of chamber music and song in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria, Paul Berry received his BA and PhD from Yale University and serves as Deputy Dean, Coordinator of Academic Studies, and Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music History at the Yale School of Music. His first book, Brahms Among Friends: Listening, Performance, and the Rhetoric of Allusion, was published in 2014 by Oxford University Press. His essays and reviews have appeared in books and scholarly journals in the USA and UK. Among his awards is a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Berry is also active as a tenor specializing in early music, German lieder, and new compositions. He has lectured on chamber music and song at Reed College in Oregon, the Royal College of Music in London, Carnegie Hall, and Columbia University in New York.