Cello Concerto No 2 / Concerto Grosso No 2 for Violin, Cello & Orch.

He gained international recognition in 1985 by winning three of the world's most prestigious cello competitions. Since then he has been giving concerts all over the world. Thedéen regularly plays with some of the world's major orchestras, – among them the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Israel Sinfonietta – under conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Paavo Berglund, Neeme Järvi, Franz Welser-Möst, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Leif Segerstam and Eri Klas.

Torleif Thedéen is also active as a chamber musician and as such appears in prestigious concert venues worldwide such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Carnegie Recital Hall in New York and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He often participates in prestigious music festivals, among them the Prague Spring festival and the festivals in Schleswig-Holstein, Bordeaux, Oslo and Stavanger. He is also a professor at the Edsberg Music Institute in Stockholm. Since 1986 Thedéen has recorded numerous CDs for BIS featuring standard repertoire works as well as contemporary music. His CD of the Shostakovich cello concertos (BIS-CD-626) won a Cannes Classical Award in 1995 and his recording of J.S. Bach's suites for solo cello (BIS-CD-803/804) was warmly received upon its release in 2000.