Gunnar Andreas Berg (born 14 January 1954) is a Norwegian musician, educator, owner of the record label "Bergland Productions". He is known from cooperations with musicians like Palle Mikkelborg,

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, Bjørn Alterhaug, Siri Gjære, Åge Aleksandersen, and Morten Harket.

Career

Berg is educated in classical guitar at the Trondheim Musikkonservatorium as well as

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. Later he was employed as Associated Professor on the Jazz program at NTNU. Berg has released four solo albums.

Honors

Gammleng-prisen The Gammleng Award ( no, Gammleng-prisen) is a Norwegian culture award created by ''The Fund for Performing Artists'' in 1982, 25 years after the fund was established in 1957. The award's official name is the ''Rolf Gammleng award to performing art ...

2002 in the class ''Studio''

Discography

*''Snowdawn'' (Arctic Records, 1980), with Sissel Kjøl Berg and Bård Ustad Svendsen (vocals), Carl Haakon Waadeland (drums),

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(piano), Helge Sletvold (bass), and

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(saxophone) *''Supernatural'' (Norsk Plateproduksjon, 1993), with Odd Magne Gridseth (bass) and

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(drums) *''The Music Machine'' (Curling Legs, 1996), with various artists *''Music Read in Teeth and Claws'' (Bergland Productions, 2008) with Yoruba Andabo from

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*''Two We Go'' (2009), with

Henning Sommerro Henning Sommerro (born 3 May 1952 in Surnadal) is a Norwegian musician, composer and professor at NTNU. Biography Sommerro grew up on the Sommerro farm at Skei in Surnadal. His name became widely known in 1977 when the folk music group Vårs� ...

References

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