Frode Berg

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Frode Berg (2018)

Frode Berg (born October 24, 1971 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian bass player.

biography

Berg grew up as the son of a naval chaplain in Australia, Belgium, France and England before returning to Norway at the age of 11. He lived in Lier and first learned to play the piano and trumpet. In 1990 he began studying classical double bass at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, which he completed after an interlude with Donna Summer in 1994 with Knut Guettler.
As a jazz musician, he was accepted into the Helge Lien Trio, with whom he recorded seven albums.
As an orchestral bassist, he was a member of the Oslo Filharmonie Orchestra from 2010 and of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in 2011, but also performed with the NDR Bigband . In total, he recorded more than 50 different albums with a wide variety of formations.
As an actor, Berg can be seen in Artemis 81 as the son of a pastor.

Berg also released noted albums as a soloist and later traveled a lot with the guitarist Knut Værnes .

Awards

  • 2008 Spellemann prizes in the jazz category for Hello Troll with the Helge Lien Trio

Discography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Frode Berg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b short biography
  2. ↑ Press report Frankfurter Rundschau
  3. ↑ Press report Hamburger Abendblatt
  4. ↑ Spiegel Magazin on Dig it!
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Frode
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian bass player
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo