Award winning cellist, Amalie Stalheim (b. 1993) has appeared as soloist with orchestras including Gulbenkian Orquestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Swedish Radio Orchestra and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, among others. She has recently premiered works by Missy Mazzoli and Therese Ulvo, as well as making her debut with the Presidential Symphony Orchestra of Turkey.

Amalie has collaborated with conductors such as Edward Gardner, Dalia Stasevska, Patrik Ringborg, Okko Kamu, Anna Maria Helsing, James Gaffigan, Nuno Coelho and Stanislav Kochanovsky.

Stalheim is the winner of the Norwegian Soloist Prize 2021, Swedish Soloist Prize 2018 and the Ljunggren Competition 2015.

In addition to performing traditional cello concertos, Amalie frequently plays and commissions new music from the 21st century. In the upcoming Season, she will perform and record five newly commissioned cello concertos, dedicated to her, written by composers who are based in Scandinavia.

As an enthusiastic chamber musician, Amalie has collaborated with Janine Jansen, Yo-Yo Ma, Leif-Ove Andsnes, Kathryn Stott, Christian Ihle Hadland, Polina Leschenko, Benjamin Schmid and Lars Anders Tomter.

She appears regularly at the Bergen International Festival, Stavanger International Chamber Music Festival, Rosendal Festival, Hemsing Festival, Copenhagen Summer Festival and Hindsgavl Festival.

Stalheim has been awarded prizes and scholarships from international festivals and foundations, such as “Firmenich Prize” at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Anders Wall "Giresta" Scholarship in 2019, Forsberg & Aulies Scholarship in 2020, Fegersten Scholarship in 2018 and Sollentuna Culture Scholarship in 2018.

From 2018-2020, Amalie Stalheim was “Artist in Residence” at the Swedish Radio classical music channel, P2.

Amalie plays on 1783 G.B. Guadagnini cello, once owned by M. Rostropovich, through a generous loan from Dextra Musica.

Photo credit: Kristina Raitciz