Piano Masterclass with Martin Sturfält

Swedish pianist Martin Sturfält enjoys an international career as a concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and recording artist. He performs a large repertoire ranging from the baroque through to the present day, but increasingly it is his passion for the music of his native country that is earning him recognition internationally as well as in Sweden. His recordings of the Stenhammar solo works and the Adolf Wiklund Piano Concertos on the Hyperion label were highly praised in international media, and his recording of the Anders Nilsson Piano Concerto on the dB label has been met with similar acclaim.

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Born near Katrineholm in Sweden in 1979, Martin started to play the piano at the age of four. He studied at the Stockholm Royal College of Music and at Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. His principal teachers were Esther Bodin-Karpe and Stefan Bojsten in Stockholm, and Paul Roberts and Ronan O’Hora in London.

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Martin began giving regular concerts at the age of 11, and has since performed extensively throughout Europe, as well as in Asia and the Far East. Highlights have included solo and chamber music recitals at all major venues in Stockholm and the rest of Sweden, as well as at London’s Purcell Room, Barbican Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Martin is regularly invited as a soloist with orchestras and has appeared with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the NHK Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra and all Swedish orchestras including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Swedish Radio Symphony – collaborating with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Harding, Eva Ollikainen, Sir Mark Elder, Thomas Dausgaard, Andrew Manze, Peter Oundijan, Vassily Sinaisky and Alexander Vedernikov.

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Martin won first prizes in both the 1999 Swedish and the 2002 UK Yamaha competitions as well as the 2002 Malmö Nordic ‘Blüthner’ Piano Competition, the 2004 John Ogdon Prize and the 2005 Terence Judd Award. After 9 years in London, he now lives in the Swedish countryside where his non-musical spare time activities include bee-keeping and furniture making.