Christian Ihle Hadland
Norway's Christian Ihle Hadland has been one of his country's fast-rising stars of the piano in the first two decades of the 21st century. He has several acclaimed recordings on the Simax label to his credit.
Hadland was born in 1983 in Stavanger, Norway. He took up the piano at eight, and at 11, he entered the Rogaland Music Conservatory (now part of Stavanger University College), studying with Erling Ragnar. At 15, he made his concerto debut with the Norwegian radio orchestra KORK, and he already had several orchestral appearances under his belt when he began lessons in 1999 with Jiří Hlinka; he later worked with Hlinka at the Barratt Due Music Institute in Oslo.
Hadland appeared over the next decade with all the major Scandinavian orchestras, making his debut with the Oslo Philharmonic in 2005 and accompanying soprano Renée Fleming at an appearance at the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony. He also began a chamber music career, collaborating with such musicians as Janine Jansen, Truls Mørk, and Henning Kraggerud, and he joined violinist Annar Follesø and clarinetist Björn Nyman for a recording of chamber works by Bartók in 2005. In 2009, he and clarinetist Martin Fröst became co-directors of the Stavanger Chamber Music Festival. The following year, Hadland made his solo debut with an album of Chopin and Schumann on Simax.
Major breakthroughs came with a million-kroner (about $116,000) scholarship from the Norwegian energy company Statoil (now Equinor), covering the period 2010 to 2013, and then his designation as a BBC New Generation Artist in 2011. That honor led to multiple appearances with top British orchestras, including one at the BBC Proms, playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19, with conductor Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic. Hadland issued an album of Mozart piano concertos and a thematic album, The Lark (2016). He has remained in demand for chamber collaborations and joined violist Natalie Clein for an album of sonatas by Vaughan Williams, Frank Bridge, and Rebecca Clarke on the Hyperion label in 2018. In 2021, he backed violinist Johan Dalene on the album Nordic Rhapsody on BIS, and in 2023, he returned on BIS, backing violinist Cecilia Zilliacus on a recording of Saint-Saëns two numbered violin sonatas.
© James Manheim /TiVo
Similar artists
Discography
21 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
-
Stravinsky, Poulenc & Debussy: Works for Cello and Piano
Amalie Stalheim, Christian Ihle Hadland
Classical - Released by Lawo Classics on 23 Jun 2023
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Stained Glass
Johan Dalene, Christian Ihle Hadland
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 25 Aug 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Saint-Saëns: Violin Works
Cecilia Zilliacus, Christian Ihle Hadland, Stephen Fitzpatrick
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 3 Feb 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata – Bridge: Cello Sonata
Natalie Clein, Christian Ihle Hadland
Classical - Released by Hyperion on 28 Dec 2018
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Musique pour violon et piano (Volume 1)
Henning Kraggerud, Christian Ihle Hadland
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on 29 Sep 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Musique pour violon et piano (Volume 2)
Henning Kraggerud, Christian Ihle Hadland
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on 17 Nov 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sinding, C.: Violin and Piano Music
Henning Kraggerud, Christian Ihle Hadland
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on 1 Nov 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Suite Italienne: I. Introduzione
Amalie Stalheim, Christian Ihle Hadland
Classical - Released by Lawo Classics on 9 Jun 2023
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Poulenc : Concertos
Christian Ihle Hadland, Håvard Gimse, Kare Nordstoga
Classical - Released by Lawo Classics on 7 Jun 2019
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart_Danzi_Beethoven for Piano and Winds
Christian Ihle Hadland, Oslo Kammerakademi
Classical - Released by Lawo Classics on 8 Nov 2019
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Debussy: Cello Sonata in D Minor, L. 135: I. Prologue – Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto
Amalie Stalheim, Christian Ihle Hadland
Classical - Released by Lawo Classics on 4 Aug 2023
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 21 and 22
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Ihle Hadland, Arvid Engegard
Classical - Released by Simax Classics on 11 Jan 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Nordic Rhapsody
Johan Dalene, Christian Ihle Hadland
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 5 Mar 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Christian Ihle Hadland Plays Domenico Scarlatti
Classical - Released by Simax Classics on 28 Sep 2018
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Grieg: Cello Sonata - Grainger: La Scandinavie
Andreas Brantelid, Christian Ihle Hadland
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 1 Feb 2015
Gramophone Editor's Choice16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Poulenc: Cello Sonata, FP 143: III. Ballabile
Amalie Stalheim, Christian Ihle Hadland
Classical - Released by Lawo Classics on 30 Jun 2023
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
-
Schumann & Chopin
Classical - Released by Simax Classics on 19 Apr 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven/Haydn: Det Norske Blåseensemble - Christian Ihle Hadland - Eivind Aadland
Det Norske Blåseensemble, Christian Ihle Hadland, Eivind Aadland
Classical - Released by Simax Classics on 24 Mar 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Til Eva - Selected Norwegian Songs - A Tribute to Eva Sars Nansen
Isa Katharina Gericke, Christian Ihle Hadland
Classical - Released by Simax Classics on 1 Apr 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata – Bridge: Cello Sonata
Natalie Clein, Christian Ihle Hadland
Classical - Released by Hyperion on 28 Dec 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo