Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang was born in 1986 in Oslo. From 1993 to 2002 she studied at the Barratt Due Music Institute in her native city, completing her education with Kolja Blacher in Hamburg and with Ana Chumachenco at the Kronberg Academy. A scholarship with the Anne Sophie Mutter Foundation allowed her to tour Europe and the United States on several occasions with the famous virtuoso. Frang began her solo career at the age of ten, when she made her debut with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra; a year later she performed with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under Mariss Jansons. Frang has also appeared as a guest artist with symphony orchestras throughout Europe and in Asia, including the London Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. As winner of this year’s Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, she will perform with the Vienna Philharmonic at LUCERNE FESTIVAL in Summer 2012. Frang is also an active chamber musician and has appeared at the festivals held in Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Chambéry, Lockenhaus, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, collaborating with such artists as Martha Argerich, Renaud and Gautier Capu-çon, Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Leif Ove Andsnes, and Julian Rachlin. Her debut CD of violin concertos by Sibelius and Prokofiev, which was released in 2010, won the Edison Award and the Classic Brit Award as “Best Newcomer”; her second recording, of violin sonatas by Richard Strauss, Edvard Grieg, and Béla Bartók, received the Diapason d’Or and Echo Klassik Awards. Vilde Frang plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin.
LUCERNE FESTIVAL debut on 15 September 2009, as part of the Debut series, when she played violin sonatas by Schubert and Strauss as well as Humoresques by Jean Sibelius.
March 2012