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Birth name
  
Mads Falck Berven

Name
  
Mads Berven

Instruments
  
Guitar


Occupation(s)
  
Musician, composer

Origin
  
Norway

Albums
  
Mountains & The Sea

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Born
  
23 May 1977 (age 46) Bergen, Hordaland (
1977-05-23
)

Genres
  
Jazz, rock, pop, electronica

Associated acts
  
Mads Berven Trio, Dawn, Robaat, Kniv og Taffel

Similar People
  
Real Ones, Ralph Myerz and the Jack, Terje Isungset

:mute playing at Ultraviolet, Norwegian TV2, 1995, "get to me"


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.

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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), 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).

Honors

  • Winner of "Kronstadfestivalen" within the Rock band "BLY" 1994
  • This years Live Band within Kniv og Taffel" 2002
  • Bergen Kommunes Etableringsstipend 2008
  • Vossajazzprisen 2008
  • As band leader

  • 2011: Mountains & the Sea (Komanche), within his M.B. Trio
  • Collaborative works

    With Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
  • 2004: Your New Best Friends (Emperor Norton)
  • 2006: Sharp Knives And Loaded Guns (EMI Music (Norway)/Virgin)
  • With others
  • 2002: Kevin Keegan (Bergen), with the band "Logikal"
  • 2003: Superworldunknown (Waterfall, Norway), with Karin Park
  • 2003: Hush Hush (EMI Music, Norway), with Nathalie Nordnes
  • 2003: Tafler Julen Inn (PS!), with "Kniv og Taffel"
  • References

    Mads Berven Wikipedia