[3] Bernofsky studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), The Hartt School, where she was a student of Eric Rosenblith, New England Conservatory of Music, and at Boston University, where she studied under Lukas Foss.

[4] Bernofsky's music is generally tonal/modal, showing influences of Shostakovich, Ravel, Prokofiev, klezmer, and other Eastern European folk music, and often features soaring melodic lines set over syncopation-fueled rhythms and contemporary/experimental approaches to chord structure.

[6] Her Haubrich Suite for brass sextet, commissioned by the International Women’s Brass Conference, responds to works of visual art condemned as "degenerate" under National Socialism in Germany.

The opera had its orchestral premiere (in Spanish translation) as part of the Festival Internacional de Artes Vivas in Loja, Ecuador, in 2022.

[8] In 2023, the first act of her new opera The Mensch, about unsung Holocaust hero Anton Schmid, was premiered at Indiana University.