Vilde Frang

Vilde Frang is a Norwegian violinist, born in 1986. She was twelve when Mariss Jansons engaged her to play with the Oslo Philharmonic. She studied at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, then with Kolja Blacher in Hamburg and with Ana Chumachenco at the Kronberg Academy, and she was a scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. A Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellowship in 2007 led to work with the pianist Mitsuko Uchida. In 2012 she received the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, which brought her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink at the Lucerne Festival. She now appears with the leading orchestras of Europe and the United States and is a frequent chamber musician at festivals such as Salzburg, Verbier and Lockenhaus. She records exclusively for Warner Classics, and her albums have won awards including the Edison Klassiek, the Diapason d’Or and the Gramophone Award. She plays the 1734 “Rode” Guarneri del Gesù.