Amalie Stalheim

Award winning cellist Amalie Stalheim (b. 1993) is known for her technical brilliance, personal expression and unique tone and has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Oulu Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
  In addition to performing the traditional cello concertos, Amalie is very passionate about commissioning and playing contemporary classical music. She is collaborating with some of the biggest composers today, resulting in several new cello concertos being dedicated to her.
  In 2023 Amalie started a collaboration with the International Festival in Bergen as initiator and mentor of “Classical Link”, a new mentoring program for outstanding, upcoming musicians in the Nordic countries.
  Amalie is the winner of the Norwegian Soloist Prize 2021, the Swedish Soloist Prize 2018, the Ljunggren Competition 2015, and the Nicholas A. Firmenich Prize 2015 at the Verbier Festival.
  Amalie began playing the cello in Bergen, Norway at the age of 6, and later continued her studies in Sweden with professor Torleif Thedeen at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm / Edsberg Manor, and with professor Kathryn Stott at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Amalie performs on a Francesco Ruggieri cello (Cremona, 1687) generously lent to her by the Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation.