“Divine cello playing, heavenly sound, a masterly performance” – (Grieg Festival)

Cellist Sandra Lied Haga combines the endless perspective of the Norwegian landscape with passion into a rich sound – resonating with audiences and musicians since her debut at Wigmore Hall at the age of 12. The winner of the Equinor Classical Music Award 2019 has performed in major concert venues worldwide, such as the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, the Athenaeum Bucuresti, the Salzburger Festspielhaus and Harpa. Her concerts led her to musical centres including London, Berlin, Prague, Zürich, Budapest, Tallinn. Sandra performed under the baton of conductors such as Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Ari Rasilainen, Thomas Søndergård, Shao-Chia Lü, David Geringas and Terje Mikkelsen. The latter invited her to record her debut album with Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations in their original version. This album with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra is going to be released in May 2020 at Simax Classics label.

In recognition of her participation in the Verbier Festival Academy at the age of 17, Sandra was invited to recite her own concert at the Verbier Festival. Invitations by other international festivals followed, amongst them the Salzburger Festspiele, Utrecht Chamber Music Festival, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Pärnu Music Festival and Bergen International Festival, where she again is invited to play two concerts at the 2020 festival. Around the album-release in May, Sandra will also perform the Rococo Variations with Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, and play a pre-concert for the Rosendal International Festival with Leif Ove Andsnes. 

A committed chamber musician, Sandra Lied Haga has collaborated with musicians such as Anne-Sophie Mutter as well as the scholars of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation and the Mutter Virtuosi. Moreover, she has performed with renowned chamber music-partners including Janine Jansen, Leif Ove Andsnes, Yo-Yo Ma, Paul Lewis, Kathryn Stott, Lars Anders Tomter and Truls Mørk.

Born in Oslo in 1994, Sandra Lied Haga 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 talented children before becoming the first student of the Razumovsky Academy in London under the guidance of Oleg Kogan. After working with her teacher Truls Mørk for 6 years, she became Frans Helmerson’s student at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin. Following her studies with Lars Anders Tomter, she is now finishing her Master of Music with Torleif Thedeen at the Norwegian Academy of Music.

Sandra has won 4 international 1. Prizes, as well as the Grand Laureates and virtuoso awards at the Cello competitions in Tallinn, Young Musician, the Heran International Cello, Padova´s International Cello, and international Chance Music in Moscow; furthermore the Bärenreiter, European Union, EMCY Art for Music, Young Lindeman prize and eight 1. Prizes in national competitions.

Sandra Lied Haga plays a Joannes Florenus Guidantus cello from Bologna 1730, kindly provided by Dextra Musica.

See recommendation from Truls Mørk

Solo

J. S. Bach: Suite no. 1 in G Major BWV 1007
J. S. Bach: Suite no. 3 in C Major BWV 1009
J. S. Bach: Suite no. 4 in E flat Major BWV 1010
J. S. Bach: Suite no. 5 in C Minor BWV 1011
J. S. Bach: Suite no. 6 in D Major BWV 1012
Z. Kodaly: Sonata for solo Cello Opus 8
G. Ligeti: Sonata for solo Cello
K. Penderecki: Suite per Violoncello solo
Ø. Sommerfeldt: Mini-suite Opus 43

With Piano

L.v. Beethoven: 7 Variations on Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen WoO 46
L.v. Beethoven: Sonata No 5 D Major
J. Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No 1 in E Minor
J. Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No 2 in F Major
G. Cassado: Requiebros
F. Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise Brillante, Opus 3 (Leonard Rose/Gendron version)
F. Chopin: Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor Opus 65
C. Davidoff: At the fountain
A. Dvorak: Rondo in G major Opus 94
A. Dvorak: Waldesruhe Opus 68 no 5
G. Enescu: Sonata for Cello and Piano no 2
D. Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole – el Pano Moruno
G. Faure: Sonata for Violin (Cello) and Piano No 1 in A Major Opus 13
G. Faurè: Après un Reve Opus 7, no 1
G. Faure: Elegie Opus 24
G. Faurè: Papillion Opus 77
C. Franck; Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major
E. Grieg: Sonata for Cello and Piano in A minor Opus 36
A. Kraft: Divertemento
B. Martinu: Moses Variations
F. Mendelssohn: Sonata for Cello and Piano No 2 in D Major Opus 58
F. Mendelssohn: Lied Ohne Worte in D major Opus 109
N. Miaskovsky: Sonata for Cello and Piano no 1
J. Offenbach: Musette Opus 24
J. Offenbach: Les Larmes des Jacqueline
A. Piazzolla: Le Grand Tango
D. Popper: Elfentanz Opus 39
D. Popper: Hungarian Rapsody Opus 68
D. Popper: Polonaise de Concert Opus 14
S. Prokofiev: Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major Opus 119
S. Rachmaninoff: Vocalise Opus 34
S. Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor
B. Romberg: Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor Opus 38
C. Saint-Saens: Allegro Appassionata Opus 43
C. Saint-Saens: The swan
G. B. Sammartini: Sonata for Cello and Piano in G major
F. Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata for Cello and Piano
R. Schumann: Adagio and Allegro Opus 70
R. Schumann: Fantasy Pieces Opus 73
R. Schumann: Fünf Stücke im Volkston Opus 102
D. Shostakovich: Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor Opus 40
C. G. Sparre Olsen: Norsk kjærleikssong -Norwegian love song Opus 36
W. H. Squire: Humoresque for cello and piano Opus 26
P. Tchaikovsky: Pezzo Capriccioso Opus 62
A. Vandini: Sonata for Cello and Piano in F major

With Orchestra

L. v. Beethoven: Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano Opus 56
E. Bloch: Three pieces (from Jewish life)
L. Boccherini: Cello Concerto No. 7 in G major G. 480
F. Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise Brillante (arranged for Cello and orchestra)
I. Davidoff: Cello Concerto no. 1
A. Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor Opus 104
E. Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor Opus 65
G. Goltermann: Cello Concerto no 4 Opus 65
J. Haydn: Cello Concerto in C major
J. Haydn: Cello Concerto in D major (Opus 101)
E. Lalo: Cello Concerto in D minor
D. Popper: Requiem for 3 cellos Opus 66
S. Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante
C. Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto in A minor Opus 33
D. Shostakovich: Cello Concerto no. 1 in E flat major Opus 107
R. Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor Opus 129
P. Tchaikovsky: Rococco variations Opus 33
A. Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in A minor
A. Vivaldi: Double Cello Concerto in G major, RV 531

Chamber music

Duo:
L.v. Beethoven: Duo in E-flat Major for Cello and Viola
M. Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello Opus 7
Handel Halvorsen: Passacaglia for Violin and Cello

Trio:
A. Borodin: String trio in G minor
L.V. Beethoven: Piano trio in C minor Opus 1 No 3
L.V. Beethoven: Piano trio in B-flat major Opus 97
L.v. Beethoven: String trio in C minor Opus 9 No 3
E. Bloch: 3 Nocturnes for violin, cello and piano
J. Brahms: Clarinet trio in A minor Opus 114
J. Brahms: Piano trio no.1 in B Major Opus 8
E. Dohnany: Serenade for string trio Opus 10
A. Dvorak: Piano Trio “Dumky” Opus 90 B.166
E. Grieg: Piano trio in C minor "Andante Con Moto"
F. Mendelssohn: Piano trio No 1 in D minor Opus 49
F. Mendelssohn: Piano trio No 2 in C Minor Opus 66
W. A. Mozart: Piano trio in B flat major K.502
W. A. Mozart: Piano trio in E Major K.542
W. A. Mozart: Divertimento in E flat K563
A. Piazzolla: The four seasons arranged for Piano trio
S. Rachmaninoff: Piano trio no 1 in G minor "Trio Elegiaque"
M. Ravel: Piano trio in A minor
F. Schubert: String trio in B-flat major D471
F. Schubert: Piano Trio no 1 in B flat Major Opus 99
F. Schubert: Piano Trio in E Flat Major Opus 100 D929
C. Schumann: Piano Trio in G Minor Opus 17
D. Shostakovich: Piano Trio no. 1 in C major Opus 8
D. Shostakovich: Piano Trio no. 2 in E Minor Opus 67

Quartet:
A. Arensky: Cello Quartet No. 2 Opus 35
L.v. Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor Opus 18
L.v. Beethoven: String Quartet no. 16 Opus 135
J. Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor Opus 25
J. Brahms: Piano Quartet in A Major Opus 26
J. Brahms: Piano Quartet in C minor Opus 60
A. Dvorak: String Quartet in F Major “American Quartet”
G. Faure: Piano Quartet no 1
E. Grieg: String Quartet in G minor Opus 27
L. Janacek: String quartet No. 1
G. Mahler: Piano Quartet in A minor
W.A. Mozart: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major K.493
W.A. Mozart: Piano Quartet in G Minor K.478
G. Puccini: String Quartet “Crisantemi”
F. Schubert: Quartetsatz in C minor
R. Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat major Opus 47
R. Strauss: Piano quartet in C Minor

Quintet:
L. Boccherini: String Quintet
L. Boccherini: Guitar Quintet no. 4 G.448
J. Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor Opus 34
A. Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A major Opus 81
C. Franck: Piano quintet in F minor Opus 4
M. Gaathaug: Piano Quintet
W.A Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A Major K. 581
F. Schubert: Quintet in A Major “Die Forelle” Opus. 114
F. Schubert: String Quintet in C major Opus 163
R. Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat major Opus 44

Sextet:
J. Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major Opus 18
J. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G Major Opus 36
A. Schöenberg: String Sextet "Verklärte Nacht" Opus 4
P. Tchaikovsky: String Sextet in D minor "Souvenir De Florence" Opus 70

Septet:
L.v.Beethoven: Septet in E-flat Major
C. Saint-Saens: Septet in E-flat Major

Octet:
F. Mendelssohn: String Octet in E-flat Major Opus 20
D. Shostakovich: Two pieces for string Octet Opus 11
J. Svendsen: String Octet in A Major Opus 3

Nonet:
A. Previn: Nonet for two string quartets and double bass
L. Spohr: Nonet in F Major for strings and winds Opus 31