Oslo-born David Christophersen is Artistic Director of the Cambridge Concert Artists series at West Road Concert Hall. He has broadcast for BBC Radio 3 and performed a wide repertoire from all periods throughout the UK at venues as varied as the Woburn Abbey Festival, Bristol St George’s, Edinburgh’s Reid Hall, Oxford’s Holywell Music Room and London’s St. John’s Smith Square. Recent premieres include a series of new chamber and solo works by Jeremy Thurlow, the award-winning Polish composer Maria Ptaszynska and Robin Holloway. Notable projects have included performances with pianist Marie-Noelle Kendall of Robin Holloway’s monumental two-piano classic Gilded Goldbergs, the premiering of Maria Ptaszynska’s Lune e Stelle for two pianos and percussion and a UK tour with Prokofiev’s War Sonatas. Last year he gave the 2024 Fauré Centenary Recitals at West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge, exploring the latter’s major piano works over the year:

He is currently preparing the performance of Prokofiev’s Sonatas nos 1-5 in five recitals at West Road Concert Hall beginning in October 2025 and in a series of shorter lunchtime concerts, presenting each of these sonatas as previews of the longer WRCH evening recitals, at Little St Mary’s Church in Cambridge.

Review by The Scotsman of David Christophersen’s performance of Prokofiev’s Seventh Sonata:
‘…a thoughtfully constructed selection, equally thoughtfully performed… an technically assured pianist, Debussy’s Etudes were considered and carefully crafted… In the Prokofiev, Christophersen’s potency came into its own: The brittle playing of the first movement was exactly right for Prokofiev’s response to the world conflict around him. In the second, its beautiful opening song-like theme developed into a passionate outpouring, with tolling bells never far away. An edgy restless toccata to close confirmed this sonata as one of the best of the 20th century.’