| Christian´s Chicago appearances last spring earned him enthusiastic reviews. He will be the first Swedish instrumentalist ever to play with the Berlin Philharmonics. With both these orchestras he performs the Berio Trombone Concerto "SOLO", a work which has attracted an enormous international interest and which Christian by now has played in almost every important music country in the world. Performances in Trondheim, in Dublin with the RTE Orchestra, with the Barcelona Orchestra, with the National Orchestra in Brussels, with the Swedish Radio Orchestra in Stockholm and with the Orchestra National de Lyon are now in line for the coming seasons.
The trombone concerti traditionally associated with Christian Lindberg, Jan Sandström´s Motorbike Concerto and Cantos de la Mancha, remain much in demand and Christian Lindberg will play them among others with the Galician Orchestra in La Coruna, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Paavo Järvi and with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and James de Preist. Christian will play the solo part in Kallevi Aho´s Symphony No. 9 with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington and at the London PROMS with the Lahti Orchestra. Another colourful new addition to Christian Lindberg´s repertoire is the trombone concerto by the Swedish composer Fredrik Högberg, "The Return of Kit Bones", a Wild West inspired, imaginative piece which requires courage both of the performer and the conductor. This piece will be performed with the Nothern Sinfonia in Newcastle, with the Prague Symphony Orchestra in Prague and with the Limburg Symphony Orchestra in Maastricht.
The Högberg Concerto is closely linked to the successful TV film
"Brassbones", which was filmed in the authentic Spanish Wild West locations. The film has attracted much attention and is now being distributed internationally by RM Associates, one of the world´s leading TV distributors, who will introduce it at the prestigeous MIPCOM Festival this autumn.
Another increasingly important "backbone" in Christian Lindberg´s repertoire is his own compositions. He has performed his "Mandrake in the Corner" with great success all over the world and it is scheduled for next season among other places at the Klangspüren Festival in Austria, with the Hamburger Symphoniker and with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
After the international success with Mandrake in the Corner, Christian finds himself in the incredible situation that he has, in a very short time, become a very sought after composer with commissions booked in as far ahead as 2006. The Sion Festival saw the première of his double concerto for trombone and trumpet performed by Håkan Hardenberger and Christian Lindberg. He is writing a flute concerto for Sharon Bezaly and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, a piece for wind orchestra commissioned by the International WASBE Conference, a trombone concerto commissioned for the International Trombone Festival, an euphonium concerto, a trumpet concerto for Spanish Brass, a trombone quartet and a brass quintet for the Stockholm Chamber Brass. The first CD dedicated to Christian´s works has been released on BIS and has been received enthusiastically by the international record press, particularly in France, and BIS Records have expressed the wish to devote the same amount of attention to Christian Lindberg´s development as a composer as they are for his other activities.
This winter, the long awaited recording of Christian Lindberg´s most treasured Classical Trombone Concertos will be recorded together with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on BIS and other recording projects are being planned.
Many concert organizers have been attracted by the comprehensive nature of Christian Lindberg´s talent. Since his conducting debut with the Northern Sinfonia, Christian has developed his conducting career in a very satisfying way. He has worked very successfully with a number of chamber orchestras and several Christian Lindberg "profiles", where Christian will appear both as a soloist, conductor and composer, are planned: a re-engagement with the Northern Sinfonia, a production with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and at the International WASBE Conference. In this context we can also mention his appointment as joint artistic leader of the Sion Festival this summer where he played both in chamber music programmes, as a soloist with orchestra, and gave the world première of his own Double Concerto for Trumpet and
Trombone together with Håkan Hardenberger and the Orchestra Verdi di Milano. His creative choice of artists and repertoire for this event was highly praised in the Swiss press. Further conducting commitments include the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and Jönköping Sinfonietta. A CD devoted to Christian Lindberg as a conductor will also be recorded by BIS.
Always trying to find some time for chamber music in his season, Christian will make a tour of some of the major British concert halls together with the pianist Roland Pöntinen in autumn 2002, including a concert at the Barbican in London. He will also give his celebrated unaccompanied solo recitals in Brugge and Groningen.
Christian Lindberg´s calender is filling up well into the 2004/05 season including an international tour with BBC Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, a tour with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and many other challenging offers for him both as a soloist, conductor, composer and recording artist.
Christian gathers energy and inspiration for all this unparallelled creativity together with his wife and children on their beautiful peninsula outside Stockholm.
www.tarrodi.se There
will be performed Christian Lindberg's world premier composition
"Helicon Wasp" at the festival on Saturday the 9th of August
by Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Christian Lindberg!
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