Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

Performers

cello

Torleif Thedéen

 

The Swedish Cellist, Torleif Thedéen, gained international recognition in 1985 by winning three of the worlds most prestigious cello competitions: the Hammer-Rostropowitsch, the Pablo-Casals and the European Broadcasting Union’s International Tribune. He regularly plays with the leading orchestras in Scandinavia and with some of the world’s major orchestras – including the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Israel Sinfonietta, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra – under conductors like Salonen, Berglund, Järvi, Welser-Möst, Rozhdestvensky, Segerstam, Venzago. Torleif Thedéen is also active as a chamber musician, and as such appears in prestigious concert venues worldwide such as Wigmore Hall in London, the Carnegie Recital Hall in New York and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He often participates in prestigious Music Festivals, such as the Verbier Festival, Prague Spring Festival, the festival in Schleswig-Holstein, festivals in Bordeaux, Oslo, Bath, Stavanger and Kuhmo. Since 1986 Thedéen has recorded 37 CD’s for BIS. His CD with the Shostakovich Cello Concertos won the Cannes Classical Award in 1995. Torleif Thedéen served as Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen 1992-96. Since 1996 he is Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Stockholm.

Performances

Works Performed

  • Bach - Variations on a Goldberg theme BWV 988 - trascr. per trio d’archi di Dmitry Sitkovetsky (*1954)
  • Dvorak - Quartet with piano in E flat Maj. op. 87
  • Schumann - Andante e Variazioni op. 46 for two pianos, two cellos and horn