Sven Forsberg

Sven Forsberg was born in Uppsala, Sweden and studied with Gunnar Norrby at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and Christoph Henkel at the Musikhochschule Freiburg im Breisgau. He also participated in masterclasses for cello and chamber music with Tortelier, Starker, Pleeth, Parisot, Kuijken and the Amadeus Quartet. An international scholarship from the Swedish Academy of Music gave him the opportunity to have cello lessons with Pierre Fournier in Geneva. After an engagement with the Stockholm Radio Orchestra, he won a position with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at just 22 years of age. In 1985, Sven Forsberg debuted at Wigmore Hall in London, and spent a season as a member of the Neues Zürcher Quartet. He was a member of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra from 1988-2010 and now teaches at the International College of Music Hamburg.