Cello

Truls Mørk

Truls Mørk’s reputation as a cellist of fierce intensity and grace has been built on performances throughout the world.

He has appeared with such orchestras as the Berlin and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, Philadelphia, Royal Concertgebouw, Staatskapelle Dresden, BBC Symphony, Chicago, and Cleveland. During the 2007/08 season, Mr Mørk is Artist in Residence at the Bamberger Symphoniker which will involve three periods portraying a range of repertoire.

Truls Mørk is a committed performer of contemporary music. He premiered Matthias Pintscher’s Reflections on Narcissus with Orchestre de Paris in February 2006, and further performances have taken place with the BBC Symphony and with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. This season Truls Mørk gives his debut with Vienna Philharmonic performing the Haas Cello Concerto. He will also premiere John McCabe’s Cello Concerto with the Hallé Orchestra under Mark Elder in January 2008.

Truls Mørk is a Virgin Classics artist and has recorded many of the great cello concertos. The current release is Chopin’s cello sonata together with transcriptions for cello and piano with Kathryn Stott. Other recent recordings include the Schumann Cello Concerto with Paavo Järvi and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and the complete Bach suites.

He plays on a rare Domenico Montagnana cello (1723).

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