Derek Bermel (born 1967, in New York City) is an American composer, clarinetist and conductor whose music blends various facets of world music, funk and jazz with largely classical performing forces and musical vocabulary. He is the recipient of various awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Academy in Rome's "Rome Prize" awarded to artists for a year-long residency in Rome.
Derek Bermel was born January 1st, nineteen hundred sixty seven.
We know he was born in 1967, but the date and month are never mentioned. It's difficult because writing out the year in words confuses the system.