From 1896 to 1907, she attended the Packer Collegiate Institute where she studied harmony with Raymond Huntington Woodman and violin with Henry Schradieck.
[1] She also studied theory and composition with Alfredo Casella, Gena Branscombe and Mortimer Wilson.
In 1927, she moved to 277 West End Avenue in Manhattan, where she lived until her death in 1979.
[4] For a single season (1928–29), she was also a student at the Curtis Institute where she studied composition with Rosario Scalero.
[4] In speaking of her 1935 article "Henrich Schenker's Method of Analysis", Berry notes: "she issued the first substantive English-language distillation of Schenkerian concepts."