Bernhard Naoki Hedenborg, born 1979 in Salzburg, started playing cello at the age of six.

As he played the Elgar Concerto for Heinrich Schiff at the age of 13 he was immediately accepted by this great cellist and musician and worked together almost ten years. Other cellists whose adivises he could join were D.Geringas, Z.Nelsova and M.Perenyi. Further important musical impulses he got in intensive chambermusic activities, in which he was leaded by musicians as G.Kurtag, F.Rados, G.Sebok, the Alban Berg Quartet and Amadeus Quartet.

The young cellist is prizewinner of many national and international competitions, among others he is silvermedalist at the Tschaikowsky Competition for young musicians and winner of the European Music Prize of Young Musicians in Oslo.

His solo debut was Saint-Saens' Celloconcerto with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg as a 12years-old. Later he has played the Celloconcertos by Shostakovich, Haydn, Dvorak, Schumann, Tschaikowsky's Rococo Variations, Beethoven's Tripleconcerto and brahms' Doubleconcerto with the Cologne Radio Orchester, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and the Radio Bavaria Chamber Orchestra.

He appeared in the Brahms Hall in Wiener Musikverein, played the Dvorak Concerto with Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and with the Slovac Philharmonic Orchestra on tour in Japan.
As his debut at the Golden Hall in the Wiener Musikverein he played the Haydn Concerto in C as soloist of the Radio Bavaria Chamber Orchestra.