Christer Danielsson was born i Valdemarsvik in 1942 and he died in Stockholm in 1989. He wanted more than anything else to be a musician. At the age of nine he began playing in the Salvation Army junior brass band, where he received his first trombone lessons. A few years later be became pupil of Magnus Björklund, solo trombonist of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.
Music eventually led him to the Band of the Swedish Navy in Karlskrona, where at the age of 17 he ernbarked in earnest on his music career. In addition to trombone playing, he now began studying the theory of music. His period of naval service introduced him to other instruments - a salutary experience for a budding composer - and to the experience of ensemble playing.

Entering the State Academy of Music in Stockholm in 1967, Christer Danielsson studied there for five years. His teachers were Bertil Jacobsson (trombone), Hans Eklund (harmony and counterpoint), Gunnar Johansson (instrumentation), Lars Sellergren (piano) and Sigfried Naumann (conducting). As a composer, however, Christer Danielsson is virtually self-taught. In 1970, while still a student, he was taken on as a trombonist by the Stockholm Philharnionicss and two years later he graduated as Director of Military Music and trombone teacher, at the same time gaining the Academy of Music's silver medallion.

Few trombonists can resist the allure of jazz, and Christer Danielsson has performed together with such legendary figures as Buddy de Franco and Nelson Riddie. He has in fact mastered several different kinds of music and for five years he was a member of Musica Nova, headed by Sigfried Naumann, playing contemporary music, the newest of the new. That music, however, never became a vehicie of his own creativity, though he stresses his readiness to avail himself of its techical potentialities in contrast to the more traditional vein.

He already began arranging music and composing small pieces while in Karlskrona, and with the passing of time his output has gradually expanded. The result and appreciation has carned him several commissions. One, for the 1978 Scandinavian Brass symposium, resulted in Echo of Bugles for brass quintet. His Two Fanfares for brass ensemble and percussion and his Festivo for brass ensemble and percussion, the latter commissioned by the Stockholm Regional Music Organisation, were regular features of the State Opening of the Riksdag (Parliament). For its 1984 tour of the USA, the Scandinavian Brass Ensemble commissioned a major work, Suite No. 3 for brass ensemble and percussion. As an arranger, Christer Danielsson was much in demand from his own Orchestra, with more than 20 arrangements for symphony orchestra to his credit.

Perusing Christer Danielsson's listed output, one finds that he writes for wind instruments in general and brass instruments in particular. His knowledge and command of brass instruments are further underlined by the fact that, from 1979 he taught the trombone at the State Academy of Music in Stockholm, where he was able to influence and instruct his successors, using both his trombone playing and his compositions.