Kalle Moberg (*1994) has excelled as one of Norway’s most promising musicians of his generation. His groundbreaking work with unconventional extended techniques on his main instrument - the accordion, is increasingly gaining international attention. Moberg performs widely as a soloist and chamber musician in classical and contemporary music, in different folk musics, and as an improviser ranging from freely improvised music to jazz, and has been touring all over Europe, as well as in the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, Japan and Ethiopia.

Besides his bachelor degree studies in classical music at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 2013-2017, Moberg held the position as kapellmeister at The Norwegian Royal Palace. He left Norway in the fall of 2017 for a master's degree at Hochschule der Künste Bern in Switzerland, studying classical music performance under Teodoro Anzellotti (IT). After graduation in 2019, Moberg returned to his hometown Oslo and is now employed at the Norwegian Academy of Music undertaking a Ph.D. in artistic research - pursuing his pioneering work with extended instrumental-techniques on the accordion.

Moberg collaborates with several well established musicians, like Jim O’Rourke (US) whom among other things recorded Moberg's solo album in 2019; Paal Nilssen-Love (NO) whom brought Moberg into his band Large Unit in 2017, as well as the septet Circus later on, and in a trio with reedist Frode Gjerstad (NO); Paul Lytton (EN) and Philipp Wachsmann (UG) in the trio The Punk and the Gaffers; Klaus Ellerhusen Holm (NO) in his quintet Honest John; Moberg is also playing in Oslo Jazz Ensemble, a project based ensemble working with artists such as Maria Schneider (US), Ola Kvernberg (NO), Håkon Kornstad (NO) among others. Moberg has performed alongside well established musicians like: Mat Maneri (US), Marshall Allen (US), Joe Talia (AU), Akira Sakata (JP), Eiko Ishibashi (JP), Okkyung Lee (SK), Mazen Kerbaj (LB), Steffen Schorn (DE), Robert Landfermann (DE), Ab Baars (NL), Kresten Osgood (DK),  Per-Åke Holmlander (SW),  Ingebrigt Håker Flaaten (NO), and with London Improvisers Orchestra, Oslo Sinfonietta amongst other large ensembles.

Moberg actively compose and arrange music. He wrote the piece “Oraklet i Delfi” / “The Oracle of Delphi” to Oslo Jazz Ensemble per commission for the opening of Oslo Jazz Festival 2020, amongst other projects. In 2018 he premiered Arthur Akshelyan’s accordion concerto Lichtfarben III, with the orchestra Vertigo, at Dampfzentrale in Bern, Switzerland.

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