Torleif Thedéen is one of the most highly regarded musicians in Scandinavia with an extensive list of engagements all over the world. He gained international recognition in 1985 by winning three of the world's most prestigious cello competitions: 'the Hammer-Rostropovich Prize' in Los Angeles, 'the Pablo Casals Competition' in Budapest and 'the TIJI-Tribune', the European Broadcasting Union's International Tribune for young interpreters in Bratislava. Since then he has been giving concerts all over the world. Thedéen regularly plays with some of the world's major orchestras - among them the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Israel Sinfonietta - under conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Paavo Berglund, Neeme Järvi, Franz Welser-Möst, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Leif Segerstam and Eri Klas. Torleif Thedéen is also active as a chamber musician and as such appears in prestigious concert venues worldwide such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Carnegie Recital Hall in New York and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He often participates in prestigious music festivals, among them the Prague Spring Festival and the festivals in Schleswig-Holstein, Bordeaux, Oslo and Stavanger. Since 1986 Thedéen has recorded numerous CDs for BIS featuring standard repertoire works as well as contemporary music. His CD of the Shostakovich cello concertos (BIS-CD-626) won a 'Cannes Classical Award' in 1995 and his recording of J.S. Bach's suites for solo cello (BIS-CD-803/04) was warmly received upon its release in 2000. Since 1996 Thorleif Thedéen has been professor at Edsberg's Music Institute in Stockholm. He received the Swedish 'Litteris et Artibus' medal in 2003. Thorleif Thedéen plays a 1711 cello by David Tecclar. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Torleif+Thedeen">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.