Andreas Brantelid

Andreas Brantelid started playing the cello from a very early age, studying with his father, and made his concerto début at the age of 14 with the Royal Danish Orchestra in Copenhagen playing the Elgar Cello Concerto. In the USA, he has performed with the Seattle and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, and in Europe, with orchestras across Scandinavia and also with the Tonhalle, Vienna Symphony, BBC Symphony and Mahler Chamber Orchestras.
Recital and chamber appearances have taken Andreas Brantelid to New York, London, Salzburg and Budapest. In the 2008–09 season he was nominated by the European Concert Hall Organization for their ‘Rising Star’ recital series, and in 2012 he was appointed a ‘Junge Wilde’ artist at the Dortmund Konzert- haus.
Andreas Brantelid won first prize in the Eurovision Young Musicians Com- petition (2006) and the International Paulo Cello Competition (2007). He was a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship winner in 2008, and has also been a member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society in New York and the BBC’s New Generation Artist scheme. He has studied with Mats Rondin, Torleif Thedéen and Frans Helmerson, and plays the ‘Boni-Hegar’ Stradivarius from 1707, kind- ly lent to him by the Norwegian art collector Christen Sveaas.