Niklas Eklund

Niklas Eklund (born 1969 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish trumpeter.

Career

Niklas Eklund studied music at the University of Gothenburg. Further studies joined with Edward H. Tarr at the Schola Cantorum in Basel to. There was a commitment to the Radio Sinfonieorchester Basel. Eklund has specialized in various trumpets, he plays both Baroque trumpet and piccolo trumpet. In modern music, he can be heard on the cornet.

In 1996 he won the first prize at the International Altenburg Competition in Bad Säckingen.

Since then he can be heard in various ensembles for Baroque music, including the London Baroque, the ensemble English Baroque Soloists, and Les Violons du Roy (Quebec- Canada). Eklund made ​​music together with Reinhard Goebel, Gustav Leonhardt and Sir John Eliot Gardiner and other representatives of historical performance practice.

In the world of modern instruments, he has collaborated with many distinguished musicians and conductors of our time, such as Cecilia Bartoli, Zubin Mehta, Heinz Holliger, Adam Taubitz, Andras Schiff, and Ivan Fisher.

As a specialist on the baroque trumpet, he combines unusual interpretive skills with exquisite precision and control. Christopher Martin, the first trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra says Niklas Eklund's CD series, " Art of the Baroque Trumpet " on Naxos show " a gorgeous, lyrical game that you can hardly find elsewhere ."

Recordings ( selection)

• Italian masterpieces for organ and trumpet, with Edward H. Tarr and Niklas Eklund, natural trumpets, CD Christophorus Digital 77145
• The Gothenburg Brass Band, Conducted by Bengt Eklund, Niklas Eklund, Cornet ( Polyphonic PRL032D, LP)