Amalie Stalheim

Award winning cellist, born on June 15, 1993 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway but based in Sundsvall, Sweden in 2022, has appeared as soloist with orchestras including Gulbenkian Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Swedish Radio's Symphony Orchestra, and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, among several others. Amalie Stalheim is the winner of the Norwegian Soloist Prize in 2021, the Swedish Soloist Prize in 2018, the Ljunggren Competition in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2015, the Cello Prize of the Year, "Firmenich Prize" from the Verbier Festival, Switzerland, in 2015. Stalheim has graduated from the Royal College of Music of Stockholm's cello education at Edsberg Castle, and the Norwegian Academy of Music. She has studied for professor Torleif Thedéen and visiting professor Kathryn Stott. Amalie Stalheim plays on a cello built by Francesco Ruggieri (2) (1687) generously lent to her by Anders Sveaas Foundation in Norway. Also in this database: Jostein Stalheim is Amalie's father and Eva Camilla Stalheim her sister.