Andreas Brantelid
Andreas Brantelid
Cello
Co-Artistic Director of Stavanger International Chamber Music Festival
“Andreas Brantelid always chooses musicality rather than bluff. (…) He clearly lives the music with every fiber of his being, taking inspiration at times from his accompanists, following an attentive conductor, or proving himself a wonderful companion in music.”
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Renowned as one of the most sought-after performing artists, Andreas Brantelid has received worldwide acclaim from audiences and critics alike for his natural musicianship, charisma and virtuosic playing.
He made his soloist debut with the Royal Danish Orchestra at 14 years of age, performing Elgar’s cello concerto. He went on to win first prizes in the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition, the International Paulo Cello Competition and in subsequent years received coveted music awards, including a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, BBC’s New Generation Artist, and a season as a Rising Star with European Concert Hall Organization. Mostly recently he was awarded the Carl Nielsen Prize in Copenhagen.
Recent orchestral engagements include appearances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig MDR Radio Symphony, Hamburger Symphoniker, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Munich Chamber Orchestra.
He has worked with many distinguished conductors including Andris Nelsons, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philippe Herreweghe, Vasily Petrenko, Thomas Dausgaard, Pablo Heras-Casado, Andrew Manze, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Robin Ticciati and Heinrich Schiff. He has appeared in venues including Dortmund’s Konzerthaus, where he was a ‘Junge Wilde’ artist, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, Tonhalle in Zurich, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Salzburg’s Mozarteum and the Metropolitan Theatre in Tokyo. He regularly contributes to the Verbier, Lockenhaus, Jerusalem, Stavanger, Bergen, Risør, Kuhmo, and Wiener Festwochen festivals and was a member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society in New York.
This season sees Andreas performing at the Moritzburg Festival in Germany, as well as engagements with Opera North, Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and Sønderjylland Symphony Orchestra.
As a recording artist, Andreas released his debut disc of the Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Saint-Saëns cello concertos with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra under EMI’s label in 2008. In 2021, he released a recording of both Haydn Cello Concertos with the Concerto Copenhagen, led by Lars Ulrik Mortense. His most recent release, “48 Strings – Music For 1, 2, 4 and 12 Cellos” pays homage to four of greatest cellists on the 20th Century; Pianti, Popper, Fitzenhagen and Klenge, in which Andreas was praised for “skilfully draw[ing] out the melody from the myriad of accompanying notes, turning something that looks pretty daunting on the page into a playful trifle.” (The Strad, September 2022.)
As a collaborative cellist, Andreas has worked with pianist Bengt Forsberg and violinist Nils-Erik Sparf in various chamber music formats since…