Christian Ihle Hadland
Christian Ihle Hadland is widely recognized as one of Norway’s most exciting young piano talents and following his recital debut at the Norwegian Opera in 2008 was hailed in the Norwegian press as an artist who ..’shows himself as a unique musician whose artistry should be heard on the world’s concert stages’
Christian made his Norwegian debut with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Eivind Aadland at the age of 15, and has since gone on to perform with all of Norway’s leading orchestras, including several appearances with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also received invitations to perform with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and the Czech Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as having appeared with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Armenian Philharmonic and Lithuanian Symphony Orchestras.
Christian is already highly sought-after both recital and as a chamber musician and has appeared several times in prestigious venues and festivals such as the Wigmore Hall, Risør Festival, the Stavanger Chamber Music Festival, the Oslo Chamber Music Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival and Kissinger Sommer. Since 2004 he has appeared annually at the Bergen International Festival as both a solo recitalist and in chamber groups and he has collaborated with such prestigious artists as Janine Jansen, Henning Kraggerud, Lars Anders Tomter, Truls Mørk, Clemens Hagen, Christian Poltera, and Ivry Gitlis. In 2006 he was invited to accompany Renée Fleming at the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo which was televised to a global audience of many millions.
Christian has recorded works by Bela Bartok with violinist Annar Follesø and clarinettist Björn Nyman in 2005 for the 2L label which received critical acclaim both in Norway and broad and a recording of works for violin and piano by the Norwegian composer Christian Sinding with Henning Kraggerud will be released in 2009 on the Simax label.
In 2000 Christian won the International Balys Dvarionas Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania, also receiving two extra awards for his interpretations of baroque and classical repertoire. In 2003 he went on to win the Rudolf Firkusny Competition in Prague and again won an addition award, inviting him to record a CD with the Czech Radio Philharmonic. At home he has won numerous prizes and awards including the Kjell Bækkelunds Prize in 2006, the Norwegian Soloist Prize, the Lindeman Prize in 2007 and the Shell Prize in both 2004 and 2007.
Christian Ihle Hadland was born in Stavanger in 1983 and received his first piano lessons at the age of eight. At the age of eleven he was enrolled at the Rogaland Music Conservatory, and in 1999 began lessons with professor Jiri Hlinka, the teacher of Leif Ove Andsnes among others, both privately and at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo.
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