Fredrik Ullén (born 1968) is a Swedish pianist. He has made recordings for the
BIS, BMG Classics, Caprice, Danacord, dbProductions, and Phono Suecia labels.
Born in 1968 in
Västerås
Västerås ( , , ) is a city in central Sweden on the shore of Mälaren, Lake Mälaren in the province of Västmanland, west of Stockholm. The city had a population of 127,799 at the end of 2019, out of the municipal total of 154,049.
Västerås ...
, Ullén studied at the
Royal College of Music, Stockholm
The Royal College of Music, Stockholm ( sv, Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm) is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The institution was mad ...
, where his teachers included Gunnar Hallhagen and Irène Mannheimer. Later studies at the
Sibelius Academy
The Sibelius Academy ( fi, Taideyliopiston Sibelius-Akatemia, sv, Sibelius-Akademin vid Konstuniversitetet) is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki and a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland. It als ...
in Helsinki included work with Liisa Pohjola.
His recordings include a collection of
Chopin transcriptions and
György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century" ...
's complete works for piano. In 1996, he became the first person to record the second book of Ligeti's
''Études''. Ullén has also produced the first complete recording of
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's 8½-hour cycle of
''100 Transcendental Studies''.
In addition to his career as a performer, he is involved in scientific research on music and the brain. Since 2010, he has been Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at
Karolinska Institutet.
References
External links
Ullén's homepage
People from Västerås
1968 births
Living people
Swedish classical pianists
Male classical pianists
Academic staff of the Karolinska Institute
21st-century classical pianists
21st-century Swedish male musicians
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