Winner of the 2019 Carl Nielsen Competition, Swedish-Norwegian violinist Johan Dalene has performed with leading orchestras and in celebrated recital halls both at home and abroad. His refreshingly honest musicality and engagement with musicians and audiences alike, has won him countless admirers. In 2022, he was named Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year.
After simultaneous residencies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Gävle Symphony, Johan takes on a new collaboration with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, working with conductors such as Antonello Manacorda and Robert Trevino. An advocate for new music, he continues to perform the concerto written for him by Tebogo Monnakgotla, notably with the Berlin Radio Symphony, having given the world premiere with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in April 2023. Other highlights include debut performances with the Minnesota Orchestra and Thomas Søndergård, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Sakari Oramo, and San Francisco Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen; and returns to the Bergen Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, London Philharmonic, and Warsaw Philharmonic orchestras. Johan is a passionate chamber musician and will give recitals in North America, notably for Vancouver Recital Series, San Francisco Performances, and the Gardner Museum in Boston, as well as making his debut on tour in Australia. He is a regular guest at the Verbier festival, as well as at London’s Wigmore Hall.
Johan released his fourth album on the BIS label in October 2023, a recital disc comprising Ravel’s Sonata and Prokofiev’s Second Sonata, alongside short pieces by Arvo Pärt, Lili Boulanger and Grażyna Bacewicz. His previous recording featured the Nielsen and Sibelius concerti with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and John Storgårds, and garnered Johan his third coveted ‘Editor’s Choice’ from Gramophone Magazine, as well as a prestigious Swedish Grammis Award.
Johan began playing the violin at the age of four and made his professional concerto debut three years later. In 2018 he was accepted on to the Norwegian Crescendo programme, where he worked closely with mentors Janine Jansen, Leif Ove Andsnes, and Gidon Kremer. Andsnes subsequently invited Johan to play at the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival and they performed together again in May 2019 at the Bergen International Festival. In 2019 he joined Janine Jansen and other members of the Crescendo Programme for performances at the Wigmore Hall in London, and at the International Chamber Music Festival in Utrecht.
Johan studied with Per Enoksson at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and with Janine Jansen, and also participated in masterclasses with several distinguished teachers, including Dora Schwarzberg, Pamela Frank, Gerhard Schulz, and Henning Kraggerud. He has been awarded various scholarships and prizes, notably from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, The Anders Wall Giresta Scholarship, Queen Ingrid’s Honorary Scholarship, The Håkan Mogren Foundation Prize, Equinor Classical Music Award, Norwegian Soloist Prize, Sixten Gemzéus Stora Musikstipendium, Expressen Cultural Prize Spelmannen and Rolf Wirténs Kulturpris.
Johan plays the 1725 ‘Duke of Cambridge’ Stradivarius, generously on loan from the Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation.
Edvard Grieg: Cow Call from 19 Norwegian Folk Tunes, op.66 no.1
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Opening speech
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio no.1 in D minor, op.49
Johan Dalene (violin), Julia Hagen (cello), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
Interval
Geirr Tveitt: Three Songs
Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Knut Vaage: Bumerang
Opus13 (String Quartet)
Edvard Grieg: Songs, op.33 no.6-12
Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
"Leipzig"
Felix Mendelssohn: Three Duets
Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Six Songs, op.4
Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), James Baillieu (piano)
Niels Gade: Fantasy Piece for Clarinet and Piano, op.43 no.3
Björn Nyman (clarinet), James Baillieu (piano)
Robert Schumann: Violin Sonata no.1 in A minor, op.105
Johan Dalene (violin), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
Interval
Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet no.2 in A minor, op.13
Opus13 (String Quartet)
«Grieg in Hardanger 1»
Letters from Edvard and Nina Grieg
Ragnhild Gudbrandsen
Edvard Grieg: Andantino serioso, op.28 no.4
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Andante con moto, EG116
Johan Dalene (violin), Julia Hagen (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Beside the Stream, op.33 no.5
Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances, op.35 no.2-3
Yulianna Avdeeva, James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Sarabande and Rigaudon from Holberg’s Suite, op.40
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
«Grieg in Hardanger 1»
Letters from Edvard and Nina Grieg
Ragnhild Gudbrandsen
Edvard Grieg: Andantino serioso, op.28 no.4
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Andante con moto, EG116
Johan Dalene (violin), Julia Hagen (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Beside the Stream, op.33 no.5
Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances, op.35 no.2-3
Yulianna Avdeeva, James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Sarabande and Rigaudon from Holberg’s Suite, op.40
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
«Grieg in Hardanger 1»
Letters from Edvard and Nina Grieg
Ragnhild Gudbrandsen
Edvard Grieg: Andantino serioso, op.28 no.4
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Andante con moto, EG116
Johan Dalene (violin), Julia Hagen (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Beside the Stream, op.33 no.5
Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances, op.35 no.2-3
Yulianna Avdeeva, James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Sarabande and Rigaudon from Holberg’s Suite, op.40
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
«Ravel 150!»
Claude Debussy: Syrinx
Cecilie Løken (flute)
Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
Cecilie Løken (flute), Björn Nyman (clarinet), Opus13 (String Quartet), Ida Aubert Bang (harp)
Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata
Timothy Ridout (viola), James Baillieu (piano)
Maurice Ravel: 3 Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, M.64
Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Edvard Erdal (violin), Albin Uusijärvi (viola), Daniel Thorell (cello), Cecilie Løken, Sigrid Holmstrand (flutes), Björn Nyman, Marita Elise Holme (clarinets), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Interval
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio
Johan Dalene (violin), Julia Hagen (cello), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
Louis Vierne: Piano Quintet, op.42
Johan Dalene, Sonoko Miriam Welde (violins), Timothy Ridout (viola), Julia Hagen (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Interval
Arne Nordheim: From Three Unexpected Songs: 2. Ore, fermate il volo
Daniel Sæther (countertenor), “Ensemble C4”
Biagio Marini: Balletto secondo, op.22 no.2
«Ensemble C4»
Knut Vaage: “Opp av jorda” (Spring) (World première) text: Ruth Lillegraven
Daniel Sæther (countertenor), “Ensemble C4”
“Grand Finale in Three Parts”
Alesandro Scarlatti: Sinfonia di concerto grosso no.8 in G major
«Ensemble C4»
Edvard Grieg: From Six Romances, op.39
Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), James Baillieu (piano)
Henri Duparc: Three Songs
Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
Geirr Tveitt: 3 Folk Tunes from Hardanger
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Knut Vaage: “kom lindereid kom” (Summer) (World première) text: Erlend O. Nødtvedt
Daniel Sæther (countertenor), “Ensemble C4”
Interval
Felix Mendelssohn: String Octet in E-flat Major, op.20
Opus13 (String Quartet), Johan Dalene, Oda Holt Günther (violins), Timothy Ridout (viola), Julia Hagen (cello)
Interval
Antonio Vivaldi: Trio Sonata no.12 in D minor, RV 63 “Follia Variations”
«Ensemble C4»
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union
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