Biography
"The trumpet could not have a more persuasive champion than Håkan Hardenberger" BBC Music Magazine
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 trumpet works.
Håkan Hardenberger performs with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Wiener Philharmoniker, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, London Symphony, The Philharmonia, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and NHK Symphony Orchestra. Conductors he regularly collaborates with include Pierre Boulez, Alan Gilbert, Daniel Harding, Paavo 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 and HK Gruber’s concerto Aerial, which has received in excess of 50 performances by Hardenberger.
Of Hardenberger’s extensive discography on the Philips, EMI and BIS Records labels, his most recent discs are solo works for BIS, and a disc of Turnage, Gruber and Eotvös works with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Peter Eötvös for Deutsche Grammophon.
Following the world premiere of Francesconi’s new work ‘Hard Pace’ with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Antonio Pappano in Rome last season, Hardenberger looks forward to further performances with the Orchestra Nazionale della Rai at Torino’s Septiembre Festival, the Dutch premiere at the Concertgebouw with Nederlands Radio Filharmonie and the Swedish premiere with Gothenburg Symphony. Gruber’s new concerto ‘Busking’, also premiered last season, receives further performances with the Swedish and Lapland chamber orchestras. Hardenberger's third commission of last season, ‘Divertimento Macchiato’ by Schwertsik, receives its UK premiere with the Royal National Scottish Orchestra.
2008/09 sees Hardenberger perform with the SWR Radio orchestra (Freiburg, Paris and Cologne), the Bamberg Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Munich and Royal Stockholm Philharmonics, as well as a tour (to Italy and Austria) with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under Metzmacher. He performs the Haydn concerto in the composer's anniversary year with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields in Berlin's Philharmonie and Vienna's Musikverein.
In recital, Hardenberger has key partnerships with pianists Roland Pöntinen and Jan Lundgren, Swedish poet Jacques Werup and with percussionist Colin Currie. Hardenberger and Currie can be heard on CD (2007) and for the first time together in Germany (Hamburg).
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.
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