is the greatest trumpet soloist today. Alongside his phenomenal performances of the classical repertoire, he is also held in high regard as a pioneer of significant and virtuosic new trumpet works.

Håkan Hardenberger performs with the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, London Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony, and NHK Symphony Orchestra. Conductors he regularly collaborates with include Pierre Boulez, Alan Gilbert, Daniel Harding, Paavo Järvi, Ingo Metzmacher, Andris Nelsons, and David Zinman.

The works written for and championed by Hardenberger stand as key highlights in the repertoire and include those by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Brett Dean, Hans Werner Henze, Rolf Martinsson, Olga Neuwirth, Arvo Pärt, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Rolf Wallin and HK Gruber’s concerto Aerial, which has received its 70th performance by Hardenberger with the Berlin Philharmonic this year.

In summer 2015 he appeared at the Tanglewood Music Festival performing Brett Dean’s trumpet concerto Dramatis personae. The concert with Cologne Philharmonic marks the opening of Hardenberger’s residency at the Philharmonic in 2015/16. Conducting has become an integral part of Hardenberger’s music making. He conducts orchestras such as BBC Philharmonic, St Paul and Swedish Chamber Orchestras, Dresden Philharmonic, RTE National Symphony Dublin, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, and Malmö Symphony.

In recital he has duo partnerships with pianist Roland Pöntinen and percussionist Colin Currie.

His extensive discography on the Philips, EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, BIS, and Ondine labels includes his latest recording with Bergen Philharmonic under John Storgårds of Rolf Wallin’s concerto Fisher King. Previous discs feature the Academy of Saint Martin in-the-Fields with new arrangements of popular film and pop melodies (BIS), a Gruber and Schwertsik disc with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra (BIS), and his trumpet concerto CD with the Gothenburg Symphony (DG).

Hardenberger was born in Malmö. He began studying the trumpet at the age of eight with Bo Nilsson in Malmö and continued his studies at the Paris Conservatoire with Pierre Thibaud and in Los Angeles with Thomas Stevens. He is a professor at the Malmö Conservatoire.