Håkan Hardenberger


Ulf Håkan Hardenberger is a Swedish trumpeter, conductor, and professor at the Malmö Academy of Music.

Early life

Hardenberg was born in Malmö and began his practice of the trumpet at the age of eight under the guidance of his hometown teacher, Bo Nilsson. He then pursued further studies at the Paris Conservatoire, with Pierre Thibaud, and in Los Angeles with Thomas Stevens.

Career

Hardenberger is a pioneer of important virtuosic new trumpet works. He collaborated with contemporary composers Harrison Birtwistle, Brett Dean, HK Gruber, Hans Werner Henze, Betsy Jolas, György Ligeti and Mark-Anthony Turnage. In 2021, he premiered Jörg Widmann's Towards Paradise. In 2022, he first performed Helen Grime's Trumpet Concerto, night-sky-blue, and in 2023, he premiered Wynton Marsalis's Trumpet Concerto for Europe.
Hardenberger performed with New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Wiener Philharmoniker, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, NHK Symphony Orchestra and conductors Alan Gilbert, Daniel Harding, Paavo Järvi, Ingo Metzmacher, Andris Nelsons, John Storgårds and David Zinman. From 2016 to 2018, he was the artistic director of the Malmö Chamber Music Festival. In the 2019/20 season, he conducted Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Hardenberger has been called "the cleanest, subtlest trumpeter on earth" by The Times.

Awards

Discography

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Albums

  • 2019: Stories – Trumpet Concertos
  • 2018: The Scene Of The Crime
  • 2017: Hakan Hardenberger Plays Dean & Francesconi
  • 2013: Turnage: Speranza, From the Wreckage by Hakan Hardenberger
  • 2012: Both Sides, Now
  • 2011: Haydn/Hummel/Richter: Virtuoso Trumpet Concertos
  • 2007: The Art of the Trumpet
  • 2006: 20/21 Gruber 'Aerial', Eötvös 'Jet Stream', Turnage 'From the Wreckage', Gothenburg Symphony Orchester, Peter Eötvös
  • 2006: Exposed Throat Gruber, Börtz, Ruders, Henderson, Holloway
  • 2002: British Music Collection: Orchestral Works Peter Maxwell Davies, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Elgar Howarth
  • 2002: Adventures – Mysteries of the Macabre Gyorgy Ligeti, Roland Pöntinen
  • 2002: Concertos Martinsson, Pärt, Tanberg, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
  • 2001: British Music Collection: Dispelling the Fears Mark-Anthony Turnage, Philharmonia, Wallace, Harding
  • 2001: Prières san Parole Constant, Tomasi, Jolivet, Sauguet, Jansen, Satie, Damase, Hakim, Simon Preston
  • 2001: British Music Collection: Endless Parade Harrison Birtwistle, BBC Philharmonic, Elgar Howarth
  • 2000: Wind Concertos Joseph Haydn, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, Elgar Howarth
  • 2000: Panorama – Virtuoso Trumpet Clarke, Albinoni, M. Haydn, JS Bach, Stamitz, Hummel, I Musici, Sir Neville Marriner, Hans Stadlmair, Simon Preston
  • 2000: Famous Classical Trumpet Concertos Haydn, Hertel, Hummel, Stamitz…, The Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields, The London Philharmonic, Sir Neville Marriner, Elgar Howarth, Simon Preston, I Musici
  • 2000: Håkan Hardenberger plays Swedish Trumpet Concertos Börtz, Sandström, Rabe, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Gilbert Varga
  • 1999: Concertos for Piano and Trumpet Shostakovitch, Enesco, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi, Leif Ove Andsnes
  • 1999: Fireworks – Music composed by Elgar Howarth: Vol 3 Elgar Howarth, Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag, Elgar Howarth
  • 1997: Brass Concertos Holmboe, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Arwel Hughes, Christian Lindberg, Jens Bjørn-Larsen
  • 1996: Emotion Henze, Takemitsu, Berio, Kagel, Tisné, Blake Watkins, Henze, Ligeti
  • 1995: Cycle-Concert Skalkottas, H.Holliger / B.Canino / K. Thunemann
  • 1994: Baroque Trumpet Concerti Albinoni, Vivaldi, Corelli, Torelli, Marcello, Viviani, Franceschini, Baldassare, I Musici di Roma
  • 1994: The Virtuoso Trumpet J-B Arban, Jean Françaix, Antoine Tisné, Arthur Honegger, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Folke Rabe, John Hartmann, Roland Pöntinen
  • 1994: Requiem Henze, Ensemble Modern, Ingo Metzmacher, Ueli Wiget
  • 1992: Trumpet and Organ Spectacular Martini, Clarke, Albinoni, Bach, Læillet, Gounod, Telemann, Simon Preston
  • 1990: Trumpet Concertos Telemann, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Iona Brown, Michael Laird, William Houghton
  • 1990: Concertos Hummel, Hertel, Stamitz, Haydn,J., Academy of St Marin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
  • 1989: Kantaten Bach, JS, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra, Barbara Hendrichs, Peter Schreier
  • 1989: At the Beach Höhne, Dinicu, Thomson, Mendelssohn, Waldtenfel, Bernstein, Glazunov, Ibert, Weide, Reger, Bitsch, Pöutine, Roland Pöntinen
  • 1988: Requiem for Fallen Soldiers Tubin, Lund Studentsångare, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
  • 1986: Trumpet Concertos Haydn, Hummel, Hertel, Stamitz, First Recording, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner