Samuel Ber

Samuel Ber is a Belgian drummer, composer and improviser. With his projects Pentadox (with Sylvain Debaisieux and Bram De Looze), Malaby/Dumoulin/Ber (w/ Tony Malaby and Jozef Dumoulin), Reservoir Ghosts (w/ Lotte Anker, Daniel Levin and Soet Kempeneer) and the new Eggs, Stairs and Shells (w/ Bo Van der Werf, Elias Stemeseder and Felix Henkelhausen) he seeks creative ways to access a state of collective flow where individual voices, points of view, concepts and contexts co-exist and merge. He also plays with KARTET, Benoît Delbecq & The Multiplexers, Antoine Viard's Park'R, Laurent Blondiau's Mâäk and MikMâäk, Bo Van Der Werf's Mantra Magnets, Susanne Abbuehl, Soet Kempeneer's Dream Tree trio with guest Magic Malik, Richard Bonnet quartet, Jordi Cassagne's Nouroog and Sol Léna-Schroll's Der Baum trio, as well as with Michaël Attias, Guillaume Orti, Marc Ducret, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Antonin Rayon, Aymeric Avice, Sylvaine Hélary, Matthieu Michel, Nicolas Thys, Matthieu Donarier, Eve Risser, Santiago Quintans, Etienne Renard, Hasse Poulsen and Kris Defoort's "An Old Monk" with Belgian actor Josse De Pauw. In 2018, he was awarded the BAEF Music Fellowship and Fulbright Student, allowing him to study composition in New York (2019-2020). He is a laureate of the Banff Centre, Meyer Foundation and Royaumont Foundation and was in residence at the Théâtre National de Bruxelles, the Royaumont Foundation and Rataplan (Antwerp). He studied at the Antwerp Conservatory and at the CNSMDP.