ABOUT Anders Åstrand & Daniel Berg

SESSION TITLE: Daniel Berg, Marimba & Anders Åstrand, Vibraphone

Anders Åstrand

Anders Åstrand is a renowned Swedish mallet specialist, considered to be a unique voice of both the marimba and the vibraphone. He is a popular and sought after soloist, regularly performing and giving master classes and clinics throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. 

From 2017-2022 Åstrand led the contemporary music/improvisation class at Orford Music Summer Academy in Quebec, Canada. Since 2021 Åstrand teaches at the Evolution classical summer courses at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. 

Anders Åstrand plays Yamaha instruments, Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth mallets, and Evans drumheads.

Daniel Berg

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.