Nils Anders Mortensen

Born in Flekkefjord, Norwegian pianist Nils Anders Mortensen took up music studies at the age of three. Victory in the Norwegian Young Pianist Competition came his way in 1986. Studies followed at the Norwegian Academy of Music, the École normale supérieure in Paris, and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover with Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, after which Tatjana Nikolajeva and Hans Leygraf supplied further training. Concerts Norway named him Debutant of the Year in 1996, and the Mozarteum Prize arrived in 1998. The Robert Levin Memorial Prize was conferred on Mortensen in 2004, and the Nordlys Award followed in 2013. His recordings have been issued by BIS, 2L, and Lawo Classics.