Winner of first prizes at international cello competitions, including the Casals Competition
Visiting professor of cello at the Royal College of Music in London and professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo
Collaborated as a chamber musician with Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Itamar Golan, Maxim Rysanov, Leif Ove Andsnes, Marc-André Hamelin, Lars Anders Tomter, Henning Kraggerud, Roland Pöntinen and Martin Fröst, among others
Played solo with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic, DSO Berlin, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, CBSO, Royal Philharmonic and BBC Philharmonic, among others
Worked with conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Franz Welser-Möst, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä, Mario Venzago and Leif Segerstam
Received the 2018 Edison Award for his recording of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with Martin Fröst, Lucas Debargue and Janine Jansen on the Sony label
Plays a 1783 Guadagnini cello borrowed from the Norwegian Dextra Foundation, formerly owned by M. Rostropovich
