Jonathan Swensen – cellist
Featured as both Musical America’s ‘New Artist of the Month’ and ‘One to Watch’ in Gramophone Magazine, rising star of the cello Jonathan Swensen is the recipient of the 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant; He was also First Prize Winner at the 2019 Windsor International String Competition, 2018 Khachaturian International Cello Competition and the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. In his native Denmark he was a recipient of the Musikanmelderringens Artist Prize in 2020, the Jacob Gades Scholarship in 2019, the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize in 2017 and the first prize winner at the Danish String Competition in 2016.
Jonathan first fell in love with the cello upon hearing the Elgar Concerto at the age of six, and ultimately made his concerto debut performing that very piece with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música. Since then, he has performed with orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Copenhagen Philharmonic, the Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense Symphony Orchestras, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and the Slovak State Philharmonic Košice.
Contact:Nicolas Papageorgiou (Director)
Aude-Marie Auphan (Director)
For US / Canada enquiries please contact Monica Felkel at Monica Felkel Creative Partners
Videos
NEC Philharmonia / Hugh Wolff – Feb 2023
Armenian State Symphony Orchestra / June-Sung Park – June 2021
with Soyeon Kate Lee (piano) – October 2022
with Marianna Shirinyan (piano) – December 2020
with Marianna Shirinyan (piano) – December 2020
with Stephen Waarts (violin), Juho Pohjonen (piano) – June 2022
Repertoire
Gallery
Links
- Jonathan Swensen’s website
- Follow Jonathan on Facebook
- Monica Felkel Creative Partners (for US / Canada)