Truls Mørk
Cellist Truls Mørk is one of Scandinavia's leading touring musicians, particularly noted for a romantic, emotional approach derived in part from his Russian-school training. Mørk is also an important educator.
Mørk was born in Bergen, Norway, on April 25, 1961. His father, John Fritjof Mørk, was a cellist, and his mother, Turid Otterbech, was a pianist. She began giving him piano lessons at age seven, and he also studied the violin. Finally, he settled on the cello and began taking lessons with his father and then with Frans Helmerson at the Edsberg Music Institute. He gravitated toward the playing of Mstislav Rostropovich and began studying with cellist Natalia Shakhovskaya. Mørk reached the finals of the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, becoming the first Scandinavian musician to do so since 1966, and he took second prizes at the Naumburg Competition in New York and the Cassado Cello Competition in Florence. In 1988, he made his recording debut on the Simax label, joining pianist Juhani Lagerspetz on a recording of Brahms' two sonatas for cello and piano.
Mørk made several more recordings for Simax through the early '90s. He toured the U.S. with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Mariss Jansons in 1994 and went on to appear as a soloist with many of the world's major orchestras. Mørk's repertory encompasses the standard cello concertos as well as new works by Pavel Haas, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Einojuhani Rautavaara, among others. An enthusiastic chamber music player, Mørk appears frequently in festivals around the world and founded an event of his own, the International Chamber Music Festival in Stavanger, directing it for 13 years. Mørk contracted encephalitis and paralysis from a tick bite he suffered while on tour in the U.S. in 2006; he was forced to take 18 months off from performing, but he recovered. Mørk has recorded prolifically for Virgin Classics, Ondine, and Chandos, among other labels; by 2022, when he moved to Alpha for a recording of cello sonatas by Bridge, Britten, and Debussy, his catalog numbered well over 40 releases.
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Haydn - Cello Concertos
Truls Mørk, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Iona Brown
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 25 Feb 1994
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Rachmaninov/Miaskovsky:Cello Sonatas
Truls Mørk, Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 1 Jan 1996
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The Lyrinx Recordings (1990): Schumann, Elgar: Cello Concertos
Truls Mørk, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monté-Carlo, Michel Tabachnik
Concertos - Released by Lyrinx on 16 Nov 2022
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Grieg/Sibelius: Cello Sonatas
Truls Mørk, Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 1 Jan 1994
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Frank7 Chausson/ Debussy/ Poulenk
Classical - Released by Simax Classics on 1 Jan 1991
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Kodaly/ Lidholm/Crumb/ Nordheim
Classical - Released by Simax Classics on 1 Jan 1996
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Britten: Cello Suites Nos. 1 - 3
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 16 Oct 2000
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Brahms: Cello Sonatas 1 & 2, & Seven Songs
Classical - Released by Simax Classics on 1 Jan 1988
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Russian Cello Music
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 1 Jan 1997
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Matthias Pintscher: Violin & Cello Concertos
Frank Peter Zimmermann, Christophe Desjardins, Truls Mørk, Ensemble Intercontemporain, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Matthias Pintscher
Classical - Released by KAIROS on 1 Jul 2007
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Symphonies & Concertos
Hans Vonk, Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester, Truls Mørk
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 4 Aug 2008
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HALLGRIMSSON, H.: Cello Concerto / Herma (Mork, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Storgards)
Truls Mørk, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds
Classical - Released by Ondine on 1 Jan 2009
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Trifonov Plays Chamber Music (Live)
Daniil Trifonov, Ilya Gringolts, Truls Mørk, Leonidas Kavakos, Gautier Capuçon
Classical - Released by Verbier Festival Gold on 26 Aug 2022
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The Lyrinx Recordings (1991): Saint-Saëns, Lalo, Fauré
Truls Mørk, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monté-Carlo, Michel Tabachnik
Concertos - Released by Lyrinx on 25 Dec 2022
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Nordheim: Tenebrae / Magma
Truls Mørk, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Aurora Records AS on 1 Jan 1991
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Saeverud: Cell Concerto / Symphony No. 8
Truls Mørk, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud
Classical - Released by BIS on 31 Mar 2000
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Britten: Orchestral Music
Truls Mørk, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Classical - Released by BIS on 1 Jan 1988
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