Ulf Håkan Hardenberger (born 27 October 1961) 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 (Dramatis Personae), HK Gruber (Aerial), Hans Werner Henze, Betsy Jolas, György Ligeti and Mark-Anthony Turnage (Dispelling the Fears). 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.

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