Lars Ulrik Mortensen

Artistic Director

A visionary artist

Lars Ulrik Mortensen

Lars Ulrik Mortensen is harpsichordist, conductor and artistic director of Concerto Copenhagen since 1999

In 2007, he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize, Denmark's most prestigious music award, as one of the greatest harpsichordists and baroque music conductors of our time.

Lars Ulrik Mortensen (b. 1955) studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and then with Trevor Pinnock in London.

From 1988 to 1990 Lars Ulrik Mortensen was harpsichordist with London Baroque and until 1993 with Collegium Musicum 90 under Simon Standage.

Mortensen has taught all over the world, including at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, Mozarteum Salzburg and the Juilliard School of Music in New York.

Outstanding conductor

Lars Ulrik Mortensen began conducting about 20 years ago with "modern" orchestras in Sweden and Denmark, where his activities at Det Kgl.

Theater attracted a lot of attention. Since 2003, however, he has concentrated on working with specialized ensembles with historical instruments.

Albums

Lars Ulrik Mortensen has made numerous recordings for DGG-Archiv Produktion, EMI, Kontrapunkt and ECM, and his CD of Bach's Goldberg Variations received the prestigious French award Diapason d'Or.

Mortensen and CoCo have recorded music by Bach, Handel, Kunzen, Gerson and Palschau on CPO. In 2015, Bach's B minor Mass was released, which has attracted a lot of attention in the international music press.

Pricing

Lars Ulrik Mortensen received the Jacob Gade Scholarship in 1979 and the Musikanmelderringen's Artist Award in 1984, and in 2000 he was named "Danish Classical Music Name of the Year".

In 2007 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize, the most prestigious award in Danish music, and in 2008 he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm.