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Daniel Berg

Professor

Classical Music and Church
Music
Telephone
+46 709-26 73 79
Mail
daniel.berg@hsm.gu.se
Visiting address
Eklandagatan 86
41259 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 210
Göteborg

About Daniel Berg

Meet our professor in classical percussion in this video presentation: https://play.gu.se/media/0_ar32skfg

Daniel Berg is a versatile marimba soloist, composer and educator. He holds the position as Professor in percussion and chamber music at the University College of 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 250 world premier for solo and chamber works.

As a composer Daniel has written a couple of solo works for marimba like Over the Moon, December and Blue Memories. The pieces belong today to the standard marimba repertoire. His works are published at the Edition Svitzer (Denmark), Norsk Musikforlag AS (Norway) Gehrmans (Sweden) and Keyboard Percussion Publications (USA).

Daniel Berg plays Bergerault marimbas and use Elite Mallets.