Lars anders tomter biography of williams

Hailed as “The Giant of the Nordic Viola” in The Strad, Lars Anders Tomter is one of today’s most influential violists.

He then continued his studies with Professor Max Rostal and with Sándor Vegh. In addition, Lars Anders Tomter collaborates frequently with internationally renowned musicians in chamber music projects. He has collaborated with conductors such as Marc Albrecht, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sylvain Cambreling, Dennis Russell Davies, Olari Elts, Daniele Gatti, Manfred Honeck, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Juha Kangas, Krzysztof Penderecki, Okko Kamu, Arvid Jansons, Dmitri Kitaenko, Ken‐Ishiro Kobayashi, Ervin Lukács, Nello Santi, Jukka‐Pekka Saraste, Ulf Schirmer, John Storgårds, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Muhai Tang, and Hans Vonk.

In addition, Lars Anders Tomter collaborates frequently with internationally renowned musicians in chamber music projects.

Lars Anders Tomter is a regular guest at important festivals such as BBC Proms, Mondseetage, Schleswig-Holstein, Schwetzingen, Styriarte, Moritzburg, Verbier as well as at a number of festivals in Scandinavia. In 1986, he captured the first prize at the Maurice Vieux International Viola Competition and, in 1984, he was awarded a special prize for his interpretation of Bartók’s Viola Concerto at the International Viola Competition in Budapest.

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Tomter is an avid supporter of new music, having performed the world premiere of four concertos composed for him and by Ragnar Söderlind, Erkki‐Sven Tüür, Rolf Wallin, and Anders Eliasson.

Lars Anders Tomter's international solo career started in 1987/88 when he toured extensively in the United States and Germany with the prestigious Norwegian Chamber Orchestra under its director Iona Brown.

Mr. In 2013, he was appointed as an assistant professor at the Royal Danish Music Academy, Copenhagen. He has performed with orchestras such as BBC Symphony,
BBC Scottish Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St.
Martin in the Fields, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, RSO
Frankfurt, NDR Radio Philharmonic Hannover, Gürzenich-Orchestra
Cologne, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Hungarian National Philharmonic,
Czech Philharmonic, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Dutch Radio Philharmonic,
Swedish Radio Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic and
Danish National Radio Symphony.

Since then his appearances as a viola soloist has been greeted with the highest public and critical acclaim throughout Europe and the United States, such as Vienna Musikverein, New York’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin and the Kölner Philharmonie.

Lars Anders Tomter has performed with orchestras such as BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St.

Martin in the Fields, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, RSO Frankfurt, NDR Radio Philharmonic Hannover, Gürzenich-Orchestra Cologne, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Dutch Radio Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic and Danish National Radio Symphony.

He began to play
the violin at the age of eight and also took up the viola.

He was artistic director of the Norwegian Risør Chamber Music Festival and currently he is the artistic director of the Norwegian Fjord Classics Festival.

His large repertoire includes all the major contemporary works, and he has recorded for Simax, Naxos, Virgin Classics, NMC, Somm and Chandos.

He played the world premiere of a new viola concerto, written by the renowned Estonian Composer Erkki-Sven Tüür. In 2013 he
was appointed assistant professor at the Royal Danish Music Academy,
Copenhagen. He has performed with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St.

Martin in the Fields, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, RSO Frankfurt, NDR Radio Philharmonic Hannover, Gürzenich‐Orchestra Cologne, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Dutch Radio Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, and Danish National Radio Symphony.

His large repertoire includes all major contemporary works, and he has recorded for Simax, Naxos, Virgin Classics, NMC, Somm and Chandos.