ABOUT Daniel Berg
SESSION TITLE: Daniel Berg, Marimba & Anders Åstrand, Vibraphone
Performing with Garrett Arney, Anders Åstrand, & the Ninkasi Percussion Group
Daniel Berg is a Swedish composer, musician, and professor in classical percussion at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg.
In his passion to promote the marimba as a solo and chamber music instrument, Daniel has worked intimately with a number of composers who have written original music for the instrument. This includes more than 300 world premieres for solo and chamber works. As a composer Daniel has written a lot for solo marimba like Mistral (for Michael Burritt), Phoenix (for Robert van Sice) and Yán Jiâng (for the Taiwan World Percussion Competition). His music for percussion ensemble has been appreciated and often performed, like Kroumata (for sextet) and Arctic Nights (for quintet) – all published by Edition Svitzer.
Daniel Berg is an artist of Bergerault Marimbas and Elite Mallets.
