Johan Dalene

Swedish-Norwegian violinist Johan Dalene won the 2019 Carl Nielsen Competition. Now aged 25, he has performed with leading orchestras and in celebrated recital halls both at home and internationally. His combination of refreshingly honest musicality and engagement with musicians and audiences alike, has won him countless admirers. In 2022 he was named Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year.

He is a keen advocate for new music and this season plays Thomas Adès’s Concentric Paths Concerto with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Andrew Manze. He also plays Rautavaara’s Serenades, notably with the London Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Adès, as well as Niels Viggo Bentzon’s Violin Concerto with the Copenhagen Philharmonic and Thomas Dausgaard.

After residencies with the Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Gävle Symphony orchestras, he works with various orchestras throughout this season. These include debuts with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and returns to the Royal Liverpool and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic orchestras. Other recent highlights include debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra and Thomas Sondergård, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Sakari Oramo and San Francisco Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

He is equally passionate about chamber music and gives a series of recitals throughout the UK with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason. He has played at celebrated festivals such as Verbier and Rosendal and in halls such as Carnegie Hall.

He records exclusively for BIS and released his latest album – of concertos by Mendelssohn and Bruch – this autumn. It joins an award-winning discography that also includes the recital albums, Souvenirs and Nordic Rhapsody and concertos by Nielsen, Sibelius, Mozart, Barber and Tchaikovsky.

He began playing the violin at the age of four and made his professional concerto debut three years later. In 2016 he was student-in-residence at the Verbier Festival and in 2018 was accepted onto the Norwegian Crescendo programme, where he worked closely with mentors Janine Jansen, Leif Ove Andsnes and Gidon Kremer.

Johan Dalene has been awarded various scholarships and prizes. He plays the 1725 ‘Duke of Cambridge’ Stradivarius, generously on loan from the Anders Sveaas’s Charitable Foundation.

Ffidil

Feiolinydd Swedaidd-Norwyaidd yw Johan Dalene, ac ef oedd enillydd Cystadleuaeth Carl Nielsen yn 2019. Ac yntau bellach yn 25 oed, mae wedi perfformio gyda cherddorfeydd blaenllaw ac mewn neuaddau datganiadau enwog gartref ac ar draws y byd. Mae ei fynegiant cerddorol hynod onest wedi’i gyfuno â’i gysylltiad arbennig â cherddorion a chynulleidfaoedd fel ei gilydd, wedi denu llawer iawn o edmygwyr. Yn 2022, cafodd ei enwi’n Artist Ifanc y Flwyddyn Gramophone.

Mae’n eiriolwr brwd dros gerddoriaeth newydd, a’r tymor hwn bydd yn perfformio Concentric Paths, Concerto Thomas Adès, gyda Cherddorfa NDR Elbphilharmonie a Jukka-Pekka Saraste, a gyda Cherddorfa Ffilharmonig Radio’r Iseldiroedd ac Andrew Manze. Bydd hefyd yn chwarae Serenades Rautavaara, yn nodedig gyda Cherddorfa Symffoni Llundain a Thomas Adès, yn ogystal â Choncerto Niels Viggo Bentzon i’r Ffidil gyda Cherddorfa Ffilharmonig Copenhagen a Thomas Dausgaard.

Ar ôl treulio cyfnodau preswyl gyda’r Gerddorfa Ffilharmonig Frenhinol, Cerddorfa Ffilharmonig Frenhinol Lerpwl a Cherddorfa Symffoni Gävle, bydd yn gweithio gydag amrywiol gerddorfeydd drwy gydol y tymor hwn. Mae’r rhain yn cynnwys ymddangos am y tro cyntaf gyda’r Gerddorfa Symffoni Genedlaethol yng Nghanolfan Kennedy, Washington DC, a gyda Cherddorfa Symffoni Detroit a Cherddorfa Ffilharmonig Tampere, a bydd hefyd yn dychwelyd at gerddorfeydd Ffilharmonig Brenhinol Lerpwl a Stockholm. Mae ei uchafbwyntiau diweddar eraill yn cynnwys ymddangos am y tro cyntaf gyda Cherddorfa Minnesota a Thomas Sondergård, gyda Cherddorfa Leipzig Gewandhaus a Sakari Oramo, a chyda Symffoni San Francisco ac Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Mae’r un mor frwd dros gerddoriaeth siambr, ac mae’n perfformio cyfres o ddatganiadau ar hyd a lled y Deyrnas Unedig gyda Jeneba Kanneh-Mason. Mae wedi chwarae mewn gwyliau enwog fel Verbier a Rosendal ac mewn neuaddau fel Neuadd Carnegie.

Mae’n recordio’n ecsgliwsif gyda label BIS, a rhyddhaodd ei albwm diweddaraf – o goncerti gan Mendelssohn a Bruch – yn ystod yr hydref. Dyma ychwanegiad arall at ei ddisgograffi arobryn, sydd hefyd yn cynnwys yr albymau o ddatganiadau, Souvenirs a Nordic Rhapsody, yn ogystal â choncerti gan Nielsen, Sibelius, Mozart, Barber a Tchaikovsky.

Dechreuodd chwarae’r ffidil pan oedd yn bedair oed a pherfformiodd goncerto am y tro cyntaf yn broffesiynol dair blynedd yn ddiweddarach. Yn 2016, roedd yn fyfyriwr preswyl yng Ngŵyl Verbier ac yn 2018 cafodd ei dderbyn ar raglen Crescendo yn Norwy, lle bu’n gweithio’n agos gyda’r mentoriaid Janine Jansen, Leif Ove Andsnes a Gidon Kremer.

Mae Johan Dalene wedi ennill nifer o ysgoloriaethau a gwobrau. Mae’n chwarae’r Stradivarius ‘Duke of Cambridge’ o 1725, sydd ar fenthyg yn hael gan Sefydliad Elusennol Anders Sveaas.