The Norwegian cello soloist Truls Mørk is coming to Prague's annual celebration Antonin Dvorak, one of the greatest Czech componists - the international music festival Dvorak Prague in Rudolfinum Concert Hall. The festival starts on September 8 and will conlude on September 24 with a concert featuring cello soloist Truls Mørk and Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducting the Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra.
Saturday 24.9., 20.00
Rudolfinum Concert Hall - Dvorak Hall
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Soloist: Truls Mørk (violoncello )
Orchestra: Rotterdamská Symphony Orchestra
Program
Antonín Dvorak: Concert for violoncello and orchestra h moll op. 104
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 Es dur op. 55 „Eroica“
Truls Olaf Otterbech Mørk (born 25 April 1961) is a Norwegian cellist.
Mørk was born in Bergen, Norway, the son of two professional musicians, his father a cellist and his mother a pianist. His mother began teaching him the piano when he was seven. He also played the violin, but soon switched to the cello, taking lessons from his father.
Mørk began his studies with Frans Helmerson at 17 at the renowned Edsberg Music Institute. An admirer of Mstislav Rostropovich and the Russian school of cello, Mørk went on to study with the Russian cellist Natalia Shakhovskaya.
In 1982, Mørk became the first Scandinavian musician to reach the finals of the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and won 6th Prize. He subsequently went on to win 2nd prize at the 1986 Naumburg Competition in New York and, in 1986, the Cassado Cello Competition in Florence. In 1989, he embarked on his first major concert tour, soloing with many of the finest orchestras of Europe. In 1994, he toured the United States with the Oslo Philharmonic, including debuts at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.
At present, Mørk is large in the international concert scene. His extensive discography spans from a Grammy-award-winning recording of the Shostakovich Cello Concertos to a critically acclaimed[citation needed] recording of Bach's Suites for Solo Cello. Mørk's passionate interest in chamber music led to the foundation of the International Chamber Music Festival of Stavanger.
Mørk holds a Professorship at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo.
Mørk plays a rare Domenico Montagnana cello (Venice, 1723), the scroll of which was made by Stradivarius. Valued at around 12 million NOK it once belonged to a Belgian gentleman who named it the "Esquire". It was bought by a bank in Norway (SR Bank), and is on loan to him. (Wikipedia)
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