Håkan Hardenberger
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“The trumpet could not have a more persuasive champion than Håkan Hardenberger” BBC Music Magazine”

Håkan Hardenberger is the greatest trumpet soloist today and it is not only for his phenomenal virtuosity that he is held in such high regard. Alongside the classical repertory Hardenberger is the most noted pioneer of new works for the trumpet.

Håkan Hardenberger performs with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Vienna, London and Royal Stockholm Philharmonics, London Symphony, The Philharmonia, Orchester des Bayerische Rundfunk and NHK Symphony Orchestra. Conductors he regularly collaborates with include Pierre Boulez, Alan Gilbert, Daniel Harding, Neeme Järvi, Ingo Metzmacher, Andris Nelsons, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Storgårds, Thomas Dausgaard and David Zinman.

The works written for, and championed by Hardenberger, stand as key highlights in the repertory and include works of Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Hans Werner Henze, Rolf Martinsson, Olga Neuwirth, Arvo Pärt and Mark Anthony Turnage. HK Gruber’s concerto Aerial has received in excess of 40 performances by Hardenberger.

Of Hardenberger’s extensive discography on the Philips, EMI and BIS Records labels, two further discs were released in 2006; solo works for BIS, and a disc of Turnage, Gruber and Eotvös works with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Peter Eötvös for Deutsche Grammophon, which has justly received high praise.

Newl commissions pieces in the 2007/08 season include works by Luca Francesconi (world premiere: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Caecilia and Antonio Pappano), Kurt Schwertsik (world premiere:Tonnkuenstler Orchestra and Kristjan Järvi in Vienna’s Musikverein and Gruber (world premiere: Amsterdam Sinfonietta in Essen). After its’ world premiere performances (Salzburg Festival 2006 Vienna Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez), Olga Neuwirth’s concerto “O…miramando multiplo…” will be further performed with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, City of Birmingham and Malmo Symphony Orchestras. This season also sees Hardenberger perform with the Oslo Philharmonic, Bayerische Rundfunk, Berlin Radio Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony and Camerata Salzburg in a play/direct capacity.

In recital, Hardenberger has several key partnerships: with pianists Aleksandar Madžar and Roland Pöntinen; a unique partnership with Swedish poet Jacques Werup and jazz pianist Jan Lundgren and with percussionist Colin Currie. Hardenberger and Currie can be heard on a newly released CD in 2007 and for the first time in the USA (San Francisco), where he also returns to perform with the Cincinnati Symphony and Paavo Järvi.

Håkan Hardenberger was born in Malmö, Sweden. He began studying the trumpet at the age of eight with Bo Nilsson in Malmö and continued his studies both at the Paris Conservatoire, with Pierre Thibaud, and in Los Angeles with Thomas Stevens. He is a professor at the Malmö Conservatoire and the Royal Northern College of Music Manchester.

2007/2008

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