Framework 2
Composer: Anders Åstrand & Daniel Berg
Instrument: Marimba and Vibraphone
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Published: 2024
Price: €30.00
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With their new album duo Åstrand/Berg present cross-over-songs from jazz standards to folk songs with an open form for vibraphone and marimba. Both Anders and Daniel are virtuoso classical musicians with a great passion for improvisation. Scan the QR-code, listen to the album, and get inspiration for making your version of the songs.
Framework, their first album, was released in 2014 and contains music published by Edition Svitzer like Mallet Dance, Blue Memories, Duo Arpeggio, and Moonlight.
Have fun!
Anders & Daniel
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Instrumentation +
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Marimba and Vibraphone
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Performed by Anders Åstrand & Daniel Berg
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About the composer +
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Anders Åstrand is a renowned Swedish mallet specialist, considered to be a unique voice of both the marimba and the vibraphone. He is a popular and sought after soloist, regularly performing and giving master classes and clinics throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
From 2017-2022 Åstrand was leading the contemporary music/improvisation class at Orford Music Summer Academy in Quebec, Canada. Since 2021 Åstrand teaches at the Evolution classical summer courses at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Anders Åstrand regularly collaborates internationally with various ensembles and groups. The Omnibus Ensemble (Uzbekistan) has premiered two of his pieces, Omnibus 17 and Next Move As a featured guest artist and mallet player Åstrand has toured both in Europe and South America with Pies En la Terra (Ecuador). He plays vibraphone in both Soundscape Orchestra and Firm roots. Soundscape Orchestra is based on electronic and acoustic instruments. Just released their first Album in November 2018. Åstrand also plays the vibe in the big band Ann-Sofie Söderqvist Jazz Orchestra, and can be heard on the album Move.
Anders Åstrand plays Yamaha instruments, Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth mallets, and Evans drumheads.
Daniel Berg is a Swedish composer, musician, and professor in classical percussion. He combines the role of writing music with being a versatile musician and teaches solopercussion and chamber music at the University College of Music in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Örebro in 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 300 world premieres for solo and chamber works. Daniel Berg is an artist of Bergerault Marimbas and Elite Mallets.
As a composer Daniel has written a lot for percussion as Images for mallet duo, Kroumata for percussion ensemble, Mistral for solo marimba and Ups and Downs for solo marimba with tape – all published by Edition Svitzer.
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Artwork and Cover: Nicola Lee
Photo (Berg/Åstrand): Harry Friberg
Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
Copyright © Edition SVITZER
www.editionsvitzer.com
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