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Hailed as one of the most consummate cellists of the younger generation, Truls Mork will give a concert at 8 pm on November 26 (Sunday) in the Sha Tin Town Hall Auditorium.

John Mork was initially taught by his father, John Mork. He continued his studies with Frans Helmerson and has also additionally studied with Heinrich Schiff and Natalia Schakowskaya. He has won numerous awards including the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition (1982), Naumberg Competition in New York (1986), Cassado Cello Competition in Florence (1983) and received the Unesco Prize at the European Radio-Union Competition in Bratislava (1983).

Truls Mork has recently appeared with Hessischer Rundfunk, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Gothengurg Symphony, Phiharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris (both in Paris and at the Schleswig Holstein Festival), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Houston, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Minnesota Symphony Orchestras. He regularly collaborates with such conductors as Ashkenazy, Bruggen, Haitink, Jansons, Neeme and Paavo Jarvi, Rattle, Salonen, Sawalllisch Svetlanov and Welser-Most.

Future engagements include Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, WDR Koln, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, NDR Hamburg, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, RAI Turin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Truls Mork will also be touring the States with Swedish Radio Orchestra and he will be touring Japan in both recital and concert with NHK Symphony under Dutoit which will include a world premiere of Penderecki's Concerto for Three Cellos.

A dedicated chamber musician, Truls Mork is the founder and Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival in Stavanger. He appears in recital throughout the world in major venues and last season was the Artistic Director of a highly successful four-concert mini-series which took place in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam over an entire weekend in Spring 2000, entitled "Sixty Degrees North", featuring works by composers from Helsinki, St Petersburg, Stockholm and Oslo.

Truls Mork has recorded many of the great Cello Concertos including Shostakovich Concerti (Jansons/London Philharmonic) which was nominated for a Grammy. He has recorded a great number of recital discs, many of which have won awards such as the Diapason d' Or July 1997, 1997 Gramophone Awards for best Chamber CD and Le Choc in 1991.

In the coming concert Truls Mork will join hands with pianist Akira Eguchi to perform Beethoven's "Sonata No.1 in F major Op. 5-1"; Prokfiev's "Sonata in C major Op. 119"; Schumann's "Adagio and Allegro in A-flat major Op. 70" and Brahms' "Sonata No. 2 in F major Op. 99".

Presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, tickets priced at $130, $100 and $70 are now available at all URBTIX outlets, with half price concessions for senior citizens, people with disabilities and full time students.

Programme enquiries can be made on 2734 2935 while ticketing enquiries and reservation on 2734 9009.

End/Tuesday, October 17, 2000

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