Swedish pianist Martin Sturfält enjoys an international career as a concerto soloist,
recitalist, chamber musician and recording artist.  His recordings of the Stenhammar solo works and of the Adolf Wiklund Piano Concertos on the Hyperion label were highly praised in international media and the
recording of the Anders Nilsson Piano Concerto on the dB label has been met with
similar acclaim. Born near Katrineholm in Sweden in 1979, Martin started to play the
piano at the age of four. He studied at the Stockholm Royal College of Music and at the
Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. His principal teachers were Esther
Bodin-Karpe and Stefan Bojsten in Stockholm, and Paul Roberts and Ronan O’Hora in
London. Martin began giving regular concerts at the age of 11, and has since performed
extensively throughout Europe, as well as in Asia and the Far East. Highlights have
included solo and chamber music recitals at all major venues in Stockholm and the rest of
Sweden as well as at London’s Purcell Room, Barbican Hall, Royal Festival Hall and
Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in
Brussels. Martin is regularly invited as a soloist with orchestras and has appeared with
among others the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the NHK Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra
and all Swedish orchestras such as the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Swedish
Radio Symphony, collaborating with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Sir Mark
Elder, Thomas Dausgaard, Andrew Manze, Peter Oundijan, Vassily Sinaisky and
Alexander Vedernikov. Martin won first prizes in both the 1999 Swedish and the 2002
UK Yamaha competitions as well as the 2002 Malmö Nordic ‘Blüthner’ Piano
Competition, the 2004 John Ogdon Prize, and the 2005 Terence Judd Award. After 9
years in London, he now lives in the Swedish countryside, where his non-musical spare
time activities include bee-keeping and gardening.“Sturfält’s recording is the most
significant tribute to Stenhammar’s absolute understanding of the piano’s voice. Subtle,
agile and beautifully shaded.”Anna Picard in the Independent on Sunday“…real
technical brilliance, which Sturfält has in abundance. […] a masterly
performance.”Robert Beale in Manchester Evening News"… real beauty and
sophistication in every aspect of the music-making."International Record Review