Birth name Mads Falck Berven Name Mads Berven Instruments Guitar | Occupation(s) Musician, composer Albums Mountains & The Sea | |
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Associated acts Mads Berven Trio, Dawn, Robaat, Kniv og Taffel Similar People Real Ones, Ralph Myerz and the Jack, Terje Isungset | ||
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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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- mute playing at Ultraviolet Norwegian TV2 1995 get to me
- Career
- Honors
- As band leader
- Collaborative works
- References
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).