09
February
Bergen, Norway
With Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Wintermezzo Festival (Streaming BergenPhiLive)
Conductor: Juanjo Mena
Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations (Original Version)
"Divine cello playing, heavenly sound, a masterly performance"
Biography
“Divine cello playing, heavenly sound, a masterly performance”
Norwegian cellist Sandra Lied Haga stands on the threshold of a major career, having already won four international competitions and many major awards in Scandinavia – including the prestigious Equinor Classical Music Award in 2019. Her rich, beautiful sound and prodigious talent have caught attention worldwide.
Since her Wigmore Hall debut at the age of 12, Sandra’s passionate playing and the deep feelings she expresses has resonated with audiences and musicians all over the world, including musical centers like New York, Berlin, Prague, London, Zürich, Budapest, Warsaw, Tallinn, and most countries in Europe. Major concert venues have been the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Wigmore Hall, the Athenaeum Bucuresti, the Salzburger Festspielhaus and Reykjavik’s Harpa.
Sandra has played with many European orchestras, under conductors such as Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Ari Rasilainen, Thomas Søndergård, Juanjo Mena, Shao-Chia Lü, Bjarte Engeset, Peter Szilvay, David Geringas, and Terje Mikkelsen.
With Terje Mikkelsen and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia «Evgeny Svetlanov» she recorded her Debut Album featuring Dvořák’s B minor Cello Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations (original version) in legendary Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory. It was released on label Simax Classics/Naxos in May 2020, and has been praised internationally. The album was recently nominated for the prestigious Spellemannprisen – Norwegian Grammy.
Following her participation in the Verbier Festival Academy, Sandra was invited to give a recital at the Verbier Festival at the age of just 17. Invitations from other major international festivals followed, including the Salzburger Festspiele, Utrecht Festival, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Baden-Baden, Pärnu Music Festival, Bell'Arte Frankfurt and Weilburg Schloss Festspiele. In addition, Sandra regularly guests the major Festivals in Norway and Scandinavia, including Bergen, Risør, Oslo, Fjord Classics, Valdres, Fejø and Vayla International Festivals.
As a committed chamber musician, Sandra has collaborated with a number of prominent artists such as Janine Jansen, Anne-Sophie Mutter and the scholars of Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, Leif Ove Andsnes, Yo-Yo Ma, Paul Lewis, Kathryn Stott, Lars Anders Tomter, Truls Mørk, Marianna Shirinyan, Piers Lane, Gordon Back, Håvard Gimse, Christian Ihle Hadland and Henning Kraggerud.
Born in Oslo in 1994, Sandra started playing the cello at the age of three, and was the youngest ever participant in the Barratt Due Institute of Music´s programme for gifted children. Her teachers have included Oleg Kogan at the London Razumovsky Academy, Frans Helmerson at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin, and Truls Mørk, Lars Anders Tomter and Torleif Thedeen at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
Sandra’s many international awards include 1. Prizes in the following competitions: Tallinn, Young Musician, Heran International Cello Competition, Padova International Music Competition and International Chance Competition in Moscow. In addition Grand Prix Laureates, The Bärenreiter Prize, European Union Prize and EMCY Art for Music Prize. Norwegian awards include the prestigious Equinor Classical Music Award, The Young Lindeman Prize and 8 national 1. Prizes.
Sandra Lied Haga plays a cello by Joannes Florenus Guidantus (Bologna, 1730), kindly provided by Dextra Musica.
Reviews
“The cellist deserves the highest praise.”
“Especially characteristic is her full and unusually rich cello sound. Flawless intonation, a clear and secure phrasing as well as a ravishing cantabile distinguish her playing, which is capable of the most enchanting pianissimos and an equally great virtuosity.”
“….her playing achieves a phenomenal eloquence.”
“(...) beautiful and intense sound (...) She plays with a sure feeling for the music, fascinating refinement, stylish, charming and in the slow parts movingly soulful.”
‘Pizzicato’, Remy Franck, 8th May 2020
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“★★★★★★”
6 of 6 stars“... This was my first encounter with Sandra Lied Haga’s playing, and I was blown away by the quality of her musicianship”
“... the slow movement of the Dvořák in particular is nothing less than exquisite.”
“... Sandra Lied Haga is plainly another young Norwegian destined for a career among the major performers of her day. In the meantime I recommend this recording with every enthusiasm, and with gratitude for an hour of the kind of inspired music-making that refreshes the jaded soul.”
‘KlassiskMusikk.com’, Martin Anderson, 17th September 2020
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“Sandra Lied Haga's wonderfully rich tone suits the long, lyrical lines of Dvorak´s Concerto to a tee”
Jeremy Pound, BBC Music Magazine, August 2020
“Impressively mature (...) Haga produces a wonderfully rich tone. I love the way she lingers over the solo part as well - obviously already a cellist who knows her musical mind.”
BBC Radio 3 Record Review, Andrew McGregor 30th May 2020
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“With this she leaves many recordings by renowned artists and record labels in the shadow (...) And what you hear is simply overwhelming.”
“Lied Haga astonishes with her fresh interpretation which, combined with a natural instinct for the music and great virtuosity, results in a convincing, fascinatingly beautiful and touching performance.”
“With no sense of cliché or affectation, though with heartfelt integrity to the music, extroverted outbursts flow seamlessly to moments of exquisite, sensitive lyricism. The listener is left to marvel at the pure, beautiful tone of the young Norwegian.”
“(...) an impressive debut album (...)”
“(...) A wonderful discovery.”
‘Glarean’- Christian Busch, 1st May 2020
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“★★★★★”
5 of 5 stars“There is a new contender in the world of the cello: a 25-year-old Norwegian called Sandra Lied Haga. She started on the cello at three – dwarfed by her instrument – but swiftly rose to prominence, winning competition after competition, and charming everyone with her sound. She made her Wigmore Hall-debut aged twelve; The two works on this new CD at Simax Classics allow her ample scope to deploy her warm and passionate sound”
The Independent, 18th June 2020
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“Lied Haga er ett av våre virkelig store navn på en kommende stjernehimmel”
“Stor klang fra ung musiker.”
“Den 26 år gamle Sandra Lied Haga har allerede utviklet en utrolig fintfølende klang i sitt instrument som enkelt sagt er vidunderlig.”
“Lied Haga is one of our truly great names in a future starry sky.”
Trond Erikson, 19th June 2020
“Sandra Lied Haga emerges as one of the strongest musical voices in recent years.”
Simax Classics
“Every tone in the music is meant from Dvorak’s blood, liver and heart, which is exactly how it sounds in Lied Haga’s performance”
Magnus Andersson - Klassekampen
“She has had a sensational technical control from an early age, a rich, singing cello tone, and has over the years developed her own personal voice.”
Leif Ove Andsnes and fellow Jury of the Equinor Classical Music Award
“Divine cello playing, heavenly sound, a masterly performance.”
Grieg Festival
Concerts/Previous Highlights
26 -
28
February
Ose Kammerspel, Norway
With among others Henning Kraggerud, violin, Gunnar Flagstad, piano, Ingrid Ose, flute, Maria Ose, flute
Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor
Dvorak: Piano Trio No 4, Op 90 Dumky
Beethoven: String Quartet No 7 Op 59
Dvorak: String Quartet No 12 Op 96 American
Mozart: Flute Quartet no 1
Dvorak: Piano quintet in A Major
Kraggerud: RomAntArctica
Ole Bull: I ensomme stunde
Rachmaninoff: Vocalise
Saint Saens: The Swan
Faure: Pavane Op 50
10
March
Tromsø, Norway
Kl 18:00
With Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Major
10
March
Tromsø, Norway
Kl 20:30
With Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Major
11
March
Tromsø, Norway
Kl 19
With Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Major
28
March
Oslo Church Music Festival
Streaming. Availbable through Easter
Bach: Solo Cello Suite No 1
Bach: Solo Cello Suite No 2
Bach: Solo Cello Suite No 5
02
April
NRK Klassisk Radio
Kl 19
Bach: Solo Cello Suite No 1
Bach: Solo Cello Suite No 2
Bach: Solo Cello Suite No 5
16
April
Spellemannprisen 2020 - Norwegian Grammy
NRK 1 TV kl 20 - 22
24
April
Oslo, Norway
Aulaen
Program TBA
25
April
Ramme, Norway
Program TBA
01
June
Bergen International Festival
TBA
03
June
Bergen International Festival
TBA
05
June
Frogner Church, Oslo
Program TBA
11
June
Bru International Festival, Stavanger
With Marianne Thorsen, violin, Lars Anders Tomter, viola, Benedicte Palko, piano
Bridge: Sonata for Cello and Piano
Bridge: Piano Quartet
Dvorak: Piano Quartet
12
June
Bru International Festival, Stavanger
With Marianne Thorsen, violin, Lars Anders Tomter, viola, Benedicte Palko, piano
Bridge: Sonata for Cello and Piano
Bridge: Piano Quartet
Dvorak: Piano Quartet
Audio/Video
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Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations (Original Version), with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra |
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Brahms Sonata in F Major |
Schumann 5 Stücke, with Leif Ove Andsnes |
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Rita Strohl Solitude |
Sibelius Romanse |
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Haydn Cello Concerto in D Major |
Promovideo Sandra Lied Haga |
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Morgendagens helter, Sandra Lied Haga |
Schumann Adagio and Allegro |
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Davidoff At the Fountain |
Brahms Piano Trio in B Major |
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Beethoven 7 Variations |
Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Brahms |
Contact
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DVA de vries artists
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Direct contact:Sandra Lied Haga
Sandra Lied Haga
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