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Brahms & Schumann - Works for Cello & Piano | Danacord DACOCD860

Brahms & Schumann - Works for Cello & Piano

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Label: Danacord

Cat No: DACOCD860

Barcode: 5709499860007

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 22nd January 2021

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About

Nils Sylvest studied with Professor Erling Blöndal Bengtsson at the Danish Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He has in addition participated in master classes with Mstislav Rostropovich.

Since 1980 he has worked for Danish Radio (DR) as a member of the DR Symphony Orchestra. On several occasions he has performed as a soloist, both with them and with the DR Chamber Orchestra, as well as performing with other orchestras.

Nils has given concerts both at home and abroad, including engagements in England, France, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries.

He was a member of Den Danske Kvartet, (The Danish Quartet), from 1984–1988 and has received amongst other awards the Jacob Gade prize and the Anmelderringens Kunstnerpris, (Critics’ Circle Artist’s Prize).

Nils plays on a cello built by Johannes Gagliano in 1811. It was in 1982 adapted specially for Nils, as he plays left-handed.

Mimi Birkelund began playing the piano at the age of four. She trained at the Danish Royal Academy of Music with Associate Professor Amalie Malling, graduating in 1991, before furthering her studies through soloist classes with Professor Hans Pålsson in Lund, Sweden.

Mimi was a finalist in the Nordiska Pianinistkonkurrencen (Nordic Pianist Competition) in 1992 and also at the Festival for Young Soloists in 1993. She made her debut as a soloist with the Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no.1 in Copenhagen and in Malmö.

She has been awarded Denmark’s most prestigious scholarship for pianists, the Martha Stuhres Piano-Stipendie. Mimi has played in a great many concerts as a chamber musician and as an accompanist both in Denmark and abroad.

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