Ole Edvard Antonsen

Ole Edvard Antonsen is considered one of the most important trumpet soloists in the world today and is one of Norway’s biggest international stars.
In recent years, he has performed as a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Osaka Symphony Orchestra, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Cologne Radio Orchestra, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, among others, and on tour with his own group and symphony orchestra in Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, and Denmark, among others.
Antonsen has performed as a soloist in major musical venues and on stages in more than 45 countries around the world, including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Sydney Opera House, the Barbican Hall in London, the Berlin Philharmonie, as well as performing in large stadiums such as the Olympiahalle in Munich and the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, among others.
In collaboration with conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Wolfgang Sawallish, Philippe Herreweghe, Kent Nagano, and Dimitry Kitayenko, Antonsen has also performed with leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Bremen Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, and the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Orchestra.
Pop and rock musicians such as John Miles, Mark King from Level 42, Lisa Stansfield, Rickie Lee-Jones, Ute Lemper, and Secret Garden are among his collaborations, as well as jazz ensembles such as the Metropole Orchestra (Netherlands), Willem Breuker Kollektief, and his own jazz groups.
As a conductor, Antonsen has led numerous orchestras and ensembles such as the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the winds of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and the first project with the world orchestra Winds of the World in 2006.
Ole Edvard Antonsen has recorded more than 50 solo albums in all genres for record labels such as EMI, Universal, BMG, and BIS.
In 1994, he recorded the Olympic Hymn for the Lillehammer Winter Olympics and also played at the closing ceremony of the Albertville Olympics in 1992.
Antonsen has premiered more than 60 major works composed especially for him. In the last 10 or 11 years, he has also composed pieces that he has recorded on disc and has played on tour in more than 400 concerts around the world, under the title “Musical Panoramas”.
In his activity as a teacher, Antonsen has been a visiting professor and gives master classes at leading universities and schools, such as Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Nemu-no-Sato, Hamamatsu, Seoul, Hong Kong, Taipei, Chiayi, Sydney, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, Reykjavik, Odense, Aarhus, Stockholm, Malmö, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Lieksa, Abo, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Bienne, St. Gallen, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Kerkrade, San Sebastián, Gerona, Vigo, Madrid, Valencia, Montserrat, Brunswick, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Heilbronn, Bremen, Ljubljana, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Boston, Washington, Milwaukee, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and others.