Featured as both Musical America’s ‘New Artist of the Month’ and ‘One to Watch’ in Gramophone Magazine, rising star of the cello Jonathan Swensen is the recipient of the 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant, First Prize Winner at the 2019 Windsor International String Competition, the 2018 Khachaturian International Cello Competition and the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. In his native Denmark he was a recipient of the Musikanmelderringens Artist Prize in 2020, the Jacob Gades Scholarship in 2019, the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize in 2017 and the first prize winner at the Danish String Competition in 2016.
Jonathan first fell in love with the cello upon hearing the Elgar Concerto at the age of six, and ultimately made his concerto debut performing that very piece with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música. Since then, he has performed with orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Copenhagen Philharmonic, the Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense Symphony Orchestras, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and the Slovak State Philharmonic Košice. The 2024-25 season sees him returning to the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, as well as his debut with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine.
