Occupation Musical conductor Genre Classic rock | Years active 1984–present | |
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Born 6 April 1957 (age 59) ( 1957-04-06 ) Drøbak, Norway Albums Three Fates, Cello Concertos 3 & 4, Symphonic Works Record labels earMUSIC, Classic Produktion Osnabrück, Simax Classics, Sterling World Premiere Similar Marc Bonilla, Wen‑Sinn Yang, Keith Emerson, Johan Svendsen, Ole Olsen | ||
Terje Wik Mikkelsen (born April 6, 1957 in Drøbak, south of Oslo) is an acknowledged Norwegian conductor with his main career in Europe and Asia.
Contents
- Musical posts
- Tours
- A selection of Mikkelsens 50 CD recordings
- World premiere recordings
- Songs
- References
He graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music, and later studied orchestral conducting with Professor Jorma Panula at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki where he got his diploma. From 1984 to 1991 he studied with Mariss Jansons in Oslo and St. Petersburg. In 2001 he was appointed Visiting Professor with the college of music of the Mahidol University in Bangkok.
Musical posts
Tours
Terje Mikkelsen regularly appears with the Moscow Radio Orchestra, has given a number of concerts with orchestras such as St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Warszaw Philharmonic, Cologne Radio Orchestra (WDR), Hamburg Radio Orchestra (NDR), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgian Radio Orchestra, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Radio Orchestra and the Philharmonia Hungarica. He has conducted a large number of tours with both his regular- and other orchestras. With the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, he conducted two concerts in the Disney Hall, Los Angeles in 2008, and in 2010 fifteen concerts in England and two at the Festival of North Norway. In Spain he has conducted more than 100 concerts with Thuringen Philharmonie, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Radio Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra and Norrlandsoperan (Sweden). With the Czech National Orchestra, he visited Great Britain in 2011 and with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra (Yevgeny Svetlanov's former orchestra), South America in 2015. He has also made a number of productions towards jazz, rock, film and light music for radio and TV. With Keith Emerson, the guitarist Marc Bonilla and the BBC Concert Orchestra he conducted a performance of Three Fates Project in Barciban Hall, London, in July 2015.
A selection of Mikkelsen's 50 CD-recordings
World premiere recordings
Songs
After all of this2012
The mourning sun2012
Tarkus - Concertante2012