Pianist Martin Sturfalt has established himself as one of the most versatile and sought-after Swedish musicians of his generation. Equally active as a soloist in recitals and concertos, he also devotes much of his time to chamber music and ensemble work.

Born in Katrineholm, Sweden in 1979, Martin started to play the piano around the age of four, inspired by his grandfather, who was an organist. He has studied at the Stockholm Royal College of Music and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, where he currently holds a Piano Fellowship. His main teachers have been Esther Bodin-Karpe and Stefan Bojsten in Stockholm, and Paul Roberts and Ronan O’Hora in London. Martin has also participated in master-classes with distinguished teachers such as Hakon Austbo, Martin Roscoe, Dominique Merlet, John O'Conor, Mikhail Voskresensky and Murray Perahia.

Martin started giving regular concerts already aged 11, and has since performed extensively throughout Scandinavia, the United Kingdom and mainland Europe. Performing highlights in recent years have included solo and chamber music recitals in all major venues in Stockholm and around Sweden as well as London’s Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall. In 2004/05 Martin has appeared as a soloist with the Gavle, Helsingborg and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestras in Sweden, Kyiv Soloists Chamber Ensemble in Ukraine and the New London Sinfonia in the UK. He has appeared several times on Swedish and Nordic radio and TV.

Martin has had considerable success in piano competitions, winning first prize in the 1999 Swedish and the 2002 UK Yamaha competitions, the 2002 Malmo Nordic "Bluethner" Piano Competition, the 2004 John Ogdon Prize, and most recently the 2005 Terence Judd Award.

Major concert appearances during 2005/06 will include performing as a soloist with the Halle Orchestra in Manchester, solo recitals in Bridge Water Hall in Manchester and Barbican Hall in London as well as various chamber music concerts in the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and in festivals in Sweden.

(2005)