Krissy Bergmark

Solo Work
- traditional Hindustani solo tabla performance
Duo Work
- accessible, flamenco-esque guitar music with unique tabla accompaniment
Trio Work
- folk/classical musical adventure with violin, guitar, and tabla

Krissy Bergmark is a tabla player, percussionist, and composer in the Twin Cities. Bergmark centers her work on bringing tabla to new genres and cross-genres through composition and performance. She has received commissions and grants through the Cedar Commissions, the Jerome Foundation, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Minnesota State Arts Board for her tabla studies and compositions for tabla, percussion, and strings. She was also a participant in the International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity in 2018, and Silkroad Ensemble’s Global Musician Workshop in 2016. She performs with her world/jazz fusion percussion group Matra, folk/newgrass trio Sprig of That, experimental global folk trio Piciformes, modern flamenco guitarist Ben Abrahamson, as a solo artist with her percussion-based solo set trio, Concentric Spaces, and curates a monthly improvisation series called Co-Lab at Black Dog Cafe in Saint Paul. Krissy is a 2010 graduate of Northern Illinois University and a 2012 graduate of the University of Minnesota. She is an Adjunct Professor of Percussion at Gustavus Adolphus College. She also currently serves as the President for the Minnesota Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society. Krissy endorses Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets. You can read more about her at (link hidden).

Sound
- Not required - can bring a PA/sound system
Staging
- Not required, brings staging