Lars Ulrik Mortensen

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Lars Ulrik Mortensen
Born1955
GenresEarly music, Baroque music
Occupation(s)Artistic director, conductor, musician
Instrument(s)Harpsichord

Lars Ulrik Mortensen (born 1955) is a Danish

conductor, mainly of Baroque solo music, chamber music and early music repertory. He was a professor in Munich in 1996–99 and has since then been artistic director of Concerto Copenhagen. He received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize
in 2007.

Early life and education

Lars Ulrik Mortensen was born in 1955. His father was the conductor Bent Mortensen. He studied with

in London.

Career

He has a career as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, North and South America and Japan. From 1988 to 1990 he was harpsichordist in

Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. He is also the artistic director of the European Union Baroque Orchestra
since 2004.

He was professor of harpsichord and performance practice at the

Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich from 1996 to 1999. In 2007 he was awarded the Léonie Sonning Music Prize
, Denmark's premier music award.

Recordings

  • Dietrich Buxtehude
    (chamber music)
"Buxtehude – Seven Sonatas, Op.1" (1994, Dacapo)
"Buxtehude – Seven Trio Sonatas, Op.2" (1994, Dacapo)
"Buxtehude – Six Sonatas" (1994, Dacapo)
  • Dietrich Buxtehude
    (solo works)
"Dietrich Buxtehude – Harpsichord Music, Vol. 1" (1998, Dacapo)
"Dietrich Buxtehude – Harpsichord Music, Vol. 2" (1998, Dacapo)
"Dietrich Buxtehude – Harpsichord Music, Vol. 3" (1998, Dacapo)
  • Dietrich Buxtehude
    (Vocal music)
"Dietrich Buxtehude – Vocal Music, Vol.1" (1996, Dacapo)
"Telemann: 6 Recorder Sonatas" (Kontrapunkt)
"Flute Sonatas" (2002, Dacapo)
  • Johann Jacob Froberger
    (Solo works for cembalo)
"Johann Jacob Froberger – Harpsichord Music" (1990, Kontrapunkt)
"Bach: 8 suites in French style, BWV 812–819" (2005, Kontrapunkt)
"Bach: Clavierübung Zweiter Teil" (2005, Kontrapunkt)
"Bach: Goldberg Variations" (2005, Kontrapunkt)

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