Violinist Johan Dalene came on the scene in the 2000s decade with a series of major international competition victories. While still in his teens, he was signed to the prestigious BIS label. Dalene has appeared as a soloist with all of the major Scandinavian orchestras as well as with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, among others. Dalene served as artist-in-residence with the Nörrkoping Symphony Orchestra in the 2018-2019 season, and in 2020, he released his debut album, a recording of the Tchaikovsky and Barber violin concertos with that group. Dalene issued Nordic Rhapsody with pianist Christian Ihle Hadland in 2021, the Sibelius and Nielsen violin concertos with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 2022, and the recital Stained Glass with Hadland in 2023.