Mads Berven

Mads Berven
Birth name Mads Falck Berven
Born 23 May 1977
Bergen, Hordaland
Origin Norway
Genres Jazz, rock, pop, electronica
Occupation(s) Musician, composer
Instruments Guitar
Associated acts Mads Berven Trio, Dawn, Robaat, Kniv og Taffel

Mads Falck Berven (born 23 May 1977 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) and law graduate from University of Bergen, known from a series of albums and cooperations with the like of Øystein Moen, Eirik Hegdal, Magne Thormodsæter, Ole Marius Sandberg, Kåre Opheim, Gard Nilssen, Per Jørgensen, Olav Dale and Helén Eriksen.[1]

Career

Berven received lessons in piano and violin at a young age, and started playing classical guitar with Stein-Erik Olsen in 1992. He is educated on the Jazz programme at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (2003–07),[2] and has played with a wide variety of artists and has many band projects. He was among other things for a number of years regular guitarist in Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band.

Berven play in bands like "Dawn", "Robaat", "Duoz" for "Derreck" with John Hegre, "No får det vere rock", with Ole Thomsen and Ola Høyer and "Kniv og Taffel SwingJazz Orkester". He debuted as a solo artist with the album Mountains & the Sea (2011), an album with Kåre Opheim (drums) and Anders Bitustøyl (bass).[3][4]

Honors

Discography (in selection)

As band leader

Collaborative works

Within Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
With others

References

  1. "Mads Berven" (in Norwegian). Last.fm.
  2. "Jazzlinja". NTNU.no. Retrieved 2013-08-13.
  3. Tor Hammerø. "Ny stemme: Mads Berven Mountains & the Sea – Review" (in Norwegian). Spillelisten.no.
  4. "Swing'n'Sweet Jazzclubb – Mads Berven Kvartett" (in Norwegian). Swing-n-Sweet.no. Retrieved 2013-08-13.
  5. "Kosestund – Trio med musikalsk vennlighet" (in Norwegian). Bergenpuls BT.no.

External links

Awards
Preceded by
Snorre Bjerck
Recipient of the Vossajazzprisen
2008
Succeeded by
Kjetil Møster