Composer Feature: Daniel Berg

This Friday, we’re spotlighting Daniel Berg, one of the composers featured in our most recent Music in Bloom.

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. He has worked extensively with a number of composers in order to promote the marimba as a solo and chamber music instrument, with his work including more than 300 world premieres for solo and chamber works.

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Daniel Berg performing.

As a composer, Berg combines the role of writing music with being a versatile musician and teacher. In fact, a number of his pieces belong to the standard marimba repertoire, such as “December,” “Blue Memory,” and “Over the Moon.” In 2019, he was one of the finalists in the Progressive Classical Music Award with his piece “Chicken Race” for two violins. He plays Bergerault marimbas and uses Elite Mallets.

Berg’s piece “Poems,” a five movement work including text by Emily Dickinson and a ‘poem without words’ was featured in our most recent Music in Bloom.

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Our Juventas vocalist Kelley Hollis and percussionist Thomas Schmidt performing Daniel Berg’s piece “Poems” at Music in Bloom.

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Musicians Liv Fridén, flute, and Andrea Radi, percussion, performing Daniel Berg’s “Second Concerto for Flute and Percussion.” A performance of this piece can be found at this link.