PRESENTATION

PRESENTATION
Fredrik Duvling & Daniel Berg

Fredrik Duvling och Daniel Berg började spela tillsammans 1992. De har en omfattande konsertverksamhet som stöds av Kulturrådet och är flitigt anlitade av skolor, kyrkor och kammarmusikföreningar i Sverige. De turnerar ofta i Sverige och Europa och har ett nära samarbete med många av landets länsmusikstiftelser som t.ex. Kultur i Väst och Västmanlandsmusiken.

Rhythm Art Duo vill tillsammans med nu levande tonsättare verka för ny kammarmusik med slagverk i centrum. Bland de många som skrivit musik direkt för duon kan nämnas - Paula af Malmborg Ward, Miklós Maros, Loreta Narvilaité och Torbjörn Grass.

"Det var ren uppvisning från början till slut, och sådan millimeterprecision i det mycket sevärda samspelet går knappt att beskriva. Från lätt och lekfullt dansande till smeksamma, övertonsmättade klangmattor och en fascinerande fuga - allt med de obekymrade leendena hos två killar som äter komplexa taktarter till frukost.”

- Upsala Nya Tidning
Fredrik Duvling - percussionist with a broad background in music.

Fredrik works at the Opera in Göteborg as a percussionist and also as a freelancer with different orchestras during the years as The Royal Opera Orchestra in Stockholm, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra among others.

Back home in Karlskoga Fredrik started to play both drums and piano at the age of 7. He played the drums in his fathers orchestra which was a really good experience.

He continued with studies in Music School for his first teacher Michal Nowak who had a great impact on him. There he also got to play with a lot of different ensembles, Symphonic bands, Marsching bands, Big bands and Symphony Orchestra in an early age.

At Pre University in Ingesund, Arvika he studied for the legendary Björn Liljequist for one year before he came to the University of Gothenburg and studied for prof Einar Nielsen and Bo Holmstrand.
During the first year there he and Daniel started to play as a duo and invented Rhythm Art Duo in 1992.

Some years later Fredrik was employed in the Royal Danish Orchestra in Copenhagen and worked there from 1998 to 2003 after that he moved back to Gothenburg.

At the same period he studied for prof Gert Mortensen in Copenhagen.
When Fredriks not work at the Opera he teaches percussion at the University of Örebro and at Pre University in Ljungskile.

Daniel Berg marimba artist

Daniel is a versatile marimba soloist, composer and educator. He holds the position as the percussion and chamber music teacher at the University Colleges of Music in Stockholm, Örebro and Gothenburg (Sweden).
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 200 world premiers 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.

Fredrik Duvling & Daniel Berg