Lars Ulrik Mortensen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen | |
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| Born | 1955 |
| Genres | Early 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
The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and with Trevor Pinnock
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)
- Georg Philipp Telemann (Flute sonatas with accompaniment)
- "Telemann: 6 Recorder Sonatas" (Kontrapunkt)
- Johann Adolph Scheibe, Martin Ræhs(flute Sonatas with accompaniment)
- "Flute Sonatas" (2002, Dacapo)
- Johann Jacob Froberger(Solo works for cembalo)
- "Johann Jacob Froberger – Harpsichord Music" (1990, Kontrapunkt)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (Solo works for cembalo)
- "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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