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Biography

Highlights of the 2011/12 season include concerts with The Cleveland Orchestra (Franz Welser-Möst), Orchestre de Paris (Manfred Honeck), and London Philharmonic Orchestra (Vladimir Jurowski), Staatskapelle Dresden (Sakari Oramo), Münchner Philharmoniker (Eivind Gullberg Jensen) and the Budapest Festival Orchestra (David Zinman).

In addition to tours with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (Yannick Nézet-Séguin) and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Tugan Sokhiev), he will also give recitals with Khatia Buniatishvili at the Wigmore Hall, BOZAR and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

A committed performer of contemporary music, he will give the UK premiere of Rautavaara’s Towards the Horizon with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2012. He recently gave the world premiere of Lasse Thoresen's Cello Concerto with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Highlights in recent seasons have included concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, as well as recordings for Virgin Classics and Deutsche Grammophon.

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Reviews

“Truls Mørk… is on exceptional form here. Particularly in the 2003 Cello Concerto, he combines a seemingly flawless technical command with a real passion for the music. He delivers some truly beautiful sounds with his 1723 Montagnana, from icicles of harmonics to bronzed bass figures, yet there is a clarity and cleanness to everything he articulates…Strongly recommended.” (The Strad, June 2009)

“Technically exacting, it is stunningly played by the great cellist, Truls Mork, who gives an equally commanding account of the first 'concerto', Herma.” (Yorkshire Post, May 2009)

“Mørk’s realisation is gripping and inexorable.” (The Scotsman, May 2009)
 
“It goes without saying that the performance here by Truls Mørk… is a towering achievement in which every single detail has been worked out carefully… the sound is spectacular. (MusicWeb-International, May 2009)

“Mørk’s cello playing, delicate yet forceful, is a treat in itself.” (The Daily Telegraph)