Christian
Westergaard (b. 1980) began studying the piano at the age of eight with Esther
Lund Madsen. He trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Amalie
Malling and Niklas Sivelöv and in recent years has made a name as a striking partner
of a number of the leading young Nordic singers. He has played concerts at among
other venues the Wigmore Hall in London, at the Hamburg Musikhalle and in the
rest of Germany, in Italy, Sweden, Norway and in Denmark in the DR Concert Hall,
the Tivoli Concert Hall, at Takkelloftet and The Black Diamond. He is founder
and artistic director of Liedkompagniet, which has renewed the focus on Danish
Lied art with composers including Rued Langgaard and Herman D. Koppel. In 1999
and 2000 he won First Prize in the Danish Steinway Competition.
On Dacapo
with the Randers Chamber Orchestra, Christian Westergaard has recorded chamber
music by his father, Svend Westergaard, and with the singers Signe Asmussen and
Adam Riis has recorded "Songs of their Times" with music by Ib Nørholm on
Kontrapunkt. He has been engaged as an accompanist at the Royal Danish Academy
of Music in Copenhagen and the Opera Academy. Christian Westergaard has received
among other grants the Van Hauen Grant and the grant of the Sonning Music Foundation.