TABITA BERGLUND

Tabita Berglund is one of today’s most exciting, talented young conductors who is fast gaining a reputation for her alert, charismatic and inspiring style.

Berglund is currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, appointed to this post following her debut engagement with the orchestra in 2020.

Highlights of 2022-23 include Berglund’s London debut with the Philharmonia (Royal Festival Hall) and season-opening debut concerts with Germany’s Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal. Berglund also makes her debut with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfonica de RTVE in Madrid, while return visits include the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, and Bergen Philharmonic orchestras, as well as her fourth guest appearance each with the Hallé and Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Berglund graduated in 2019 from the Orchestral Conducting Masters course at the Norwegian Academy of Music and originally trained as a cellist before switching her focus to conducting. She was the 2018–20 star of the Talent Norway program and is a past recipient of the Gstaad Conducting Academy’s Neeme Järvi Prize. Berglund’s debut CD, on which she conducts the Oslo Philharmonic with violinist Sonoko Miriam Welde, was released in 2021 (LAWO) and subsequently nominated for a Norwegian Grammy (Spellemann) in the 2022 Classical Music category.

Edgar Moreau

Celebrated cellist

Edgar Moreau won First Prize in the 2014 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and was awarded six Special Prizes after capturing Second Prize and the prize for Best Performance of the Commissioned Work at the International Tchaikovsky Competition under the chairmanship of Valery Gergiev. At the Rostropovitch Cello Competition in Paris in 2009, he received the Prize for the Most Promising Contestant.

Moreau regularly performs with acclaimed conductors and world-renowned orchestras including the Roma Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and others. He is frequently invited to notable festivals including Verbier, Salzburg, Gstaad, Montreux, and others.

An Erato exclusive artist, Edgar Moreau released his debut album, Play, in 2014 with pianist Pierre-Yves Hodique. His follow-up, Giovincello, featured baroque concertos with the ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro and Riccardo Minasi and won an ECHO Klassik Award in 2016. He has also recorded Debussy’s sonatas and trios and a duo album with David Kadouch with works by Franck, Poulenc, Strohl, and De la Tombelle. His latest release is a recording of Gulda and Offenbach concertos with Les Forces Majeures and Raphaël Merlin.

Moreau plays on a David Tecchler cello from 1711. His bow was made by Dominique Peccatte.