Swedish pianist Martin Sturfält enjoys an international career as a concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and recording artist. His recordings of the Stenhammar solo works and of the Adolf Wiklund Piano Concertos on the Hyperion label were highly praised in international media and the recording of the Anders Nilsson Piano Concerto on the dB label has been met with similar acclaim. Born near Katrineholm in Sweden in 1979, Martin started to play the piano at the age of four. He studied at the Stockholm Royal College of Music and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. His principal teachers were Esther Bodin-Karpe and Stefan Bojsten in Stockholm, and Paul Roberts and Ronan O’Hora in London. Martin began giving regular concerts at the age of 11, and has since performed extensively throughout Europe, as well as in Asia and the Far East. Martin is regularly invited as a soloist with orchestras and has appeared with among others the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the NHK Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra and all Swedish orchestras such as the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Swedish Radio Symphony, collaborating with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Harding, Sir Mark Elder, Thomas Dausgaard and Andrew Manze