Nils Anders Mortensen was born in Flekkefjord in 1971. He played the piano since the age of 3, won the national piano competition Ungdommens Pianomesterskap in 1986. He studied at Norges musikkhøgskole, Ecole Normale Paris and Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hanover. His most important teachers were Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, Tatjana Nikolayeva and Hans Leygraf. In 1996 Mortensen was awarded "Debut of the year" by Rikskonsertene (Concerts Norway), resulting in an extensive tour of recitals through Norway. Internationally he won prizes…
Nils Anders Mortensen was born in Flekkefjord in 1971. He played the piano since the age of 3, won the national piano competition Ungdommens Pianomesterskap in 1986. He studied at Norges musikkhøgskole, Ecole Normale Paris and Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hanover. His most important teachers were Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, Tatjana Nikolayeva and Hans Leygraf. In 1996 Mortensen was awarded "Debut of the year" by Rikskonsertene (Concerts Norway), resulting in an extensive tour of recitals through Norway. Internationally he won prizes like the Ibla Grand Prize of Sicily in 1995 and the Chopin-Gesellschaft Prize of Hanover in 1996, followed by concerts in the United States and Germany. In 1998 he won the Mozarteum prize at the summer academy of Salzburg. He has also toured Russia, Hungary and the Baltic states. Mortensen has been soloist with the Norwegian symphony orchestras, and in 1998 he performed the Grieg piano concerto at the famous closing concert of the Bergen International Festival, together with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. He is a frequent guest at the Norwegian chamber music festivals, like Stavanger, Oslo, Lofoten and Risør. With the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra he made a recording of piano concertos by Geir Tveitt. April 2009