Toke Møldrup
Toke Møldrup graduated from the Jyske Musikkonservatorium with Harro Ruijsenaars and at DKDM, where he studied with professors Morten Zeuthen and Tim Frederiksen until his debut concert in 2005. He also graduated in 2006 from the Hochschule für Musik, Karlsruhe, with a Konzertexamen degree. Private studies with, among others Hans Jørgen Jensen (Northwestern School of Music), Valter Despalj (Zagreb Academy of Music), Alban Berg Quartet in Vienna and Cologne as well as general bass studies with Viggo Mangor.
Teaching
- 2021: Associate professor, RDAM
- 2020: Assistant professor, RDAM
- 2005-2020: Part-time teacher, RDAM
Masterclasses
- Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University
- Manhattan School of Music
- Royal Academy of Music, London
- Shanghai Conservatory
- Beijing Conservatory
Distance learning
- Academy of music of Geneva
- Royal Academy of Music Birmingham
- Royal College of Music, London
- Shanghai Middle School
Prize-winning students
- Signe Ebstrup Bitsch:
First prize in the Danish Radio P2 Chamber Music Competition 2020 (Novo Kvartetten) - Josefine Opsahl
Second prize, Svirel International Music Competition 2014 - Jonathan Swensen
First prize, the Danish String Players’ Competition 2017
First prize, Aram Khatchaturian Int. Cello Competition 2018
First prize, Young Concert Artists’ International Competition 2017
Semi-finalist, International Tchaikovsky Competition 2019
Artistic practice
Toke has performed as a soloist with Danish and international symphony orchestras under conductors such as Aldo Ceccato, Sanntu Rouvali, Lan Shui and Joshua Weilerstein, and has been a frequent guest in Danish and foreign music associations and festivals such as the Bergen International Festival, Lincoln International Chamber Music Festival, Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival and Oberstdorf Musiksommer, as a member of the ensembles Nordlys, Paizo Kvartetten, Den Danske Klavertrio, Copenhagen Cello Quartet, and with other prominent musicians. His discography includes the critically-acclaimed recording of Bach’s suites for solo cello (2018), the release Cello Libris, Geoffrey Gordon’s works for cello (2020) and Beethoven’s sonatas and variations with pianist Yaron Kohlberg (2020). Møldrup also continues to develop the cello repertoire through collaborations with many contemporary composers, including the European premiere of John Williams’ Cello Concerto, Svend David Sandström’s Nordic Mass, Geoffrey Gordon’s Cello Concerto and Christian Winther Christensen’s Concerto for Cello and Accordion.
Toke Møldrup was solo cellist in the Copenhagen Phil from 2010-2020 – a position he left in order to devote himself to his many soloist tasks and his teaching and research at RDAM, where he himself trained as a soloist under professors Morten Zeuthen and Tim Frederiksen. Toke plays a David Tecchler cello from 1697 (on loan from the Augustinus Foundation).
2017-20: Augustinus Foundation Anniversary Grant
2014: Queen Ingrid Honorary Scholarship
2011: Artist’s Prize of the Circle of Music Critics (Musikanmelderringen)
2007: Winner of the EBU “New Talent” International Music Competition
2006: Winner of the Danish String Players’ Competition
2003: Grand Prize in the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition (with Paizo Kvartetten)
2003: Anne Marie Mortensen Scholarship
2001: Aennchen and Eigil Harby Scholarship
2001: Jacob Gade Scholarship
1999: Leonid Sonning Travel Scholarship
1998: Van Hauen Scholarship
- The artistic Research project From Specialization to Common Praxis - HIPP in modern instrumental Praxis was carried out with support from the Ministry of Culture's fund for Artistic Research, and was completed in 2021 with a concert lecture at Studiescenen, DKDM and a presentation at the EPARM conference at Royal Academy of Music, London.
- The article "Transformation" describes a tool to implement the 18th century musician's praxis in modern instrumental praxias and will be published in 2022.
- Ongoing artistic research project: "Musician in new ways", about Toke Møldrup's new role as festival manager at Fynposium.
Toke has won prizes at several international competitions, and has played concerts on five continents, including at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Musikverein Vienna, Dai-ichi Seimei Hall, Tokyo, the Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing, etc. He has given numerous masterclasses, including at the Royal Academy, London, the Bienen School of Music, Chicago, and the Shanghai Conservatory, amongst others.
- Svanekegaarden International Cello Masterclass (annually since 2019)
- Masterclasses at music schools and in the preparatory class for academies (MGK)
- Mentor concerts
- EPARM conference, London 2021
- Global Conservatoire conference, New York 2022
- 2021: Solo in Scéna, works by Nørgård, Britten and Kodaly, Aulicus Records
- 2021: Consolation – dedicated to heroes and victims of the pandemic, with Tanja Zapolski, Gateway
- 2020: L.v.Beethoven: Complete works for piano and cello, with Yaron Kohlberg, Aulicus Records
- 2020: Cello Libris - Geoffrey Gordon's works for cello, with Copenhagen Phil/Lan Shui, Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, Steven Beck, piano, BIS Records
- 2018: Bach Revisited, Bach's solo cello suites, Bridge Records
- 2015: Romantic Danish Piano Trios, with The Danish Piano Trio, Dacapo Records
- 2013: Copenhagen Cello Quartet, Paula Records
- 2011: Passionate, with Yaron Kohlberg, piano, CD KLASSISK
- 2002: Beethoven: String Quartets, Paizo Quartet, Classico
