Vilde Frang violin

Fellowship Winner 2007

Born in Oslo in 1986, Vilde Frang studied from 1993-2002 at the Barratt-Due Institute of Music in Oslo. Since 2003, she studies with Kolja Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik, Hamburg. She also regularly works with Ana Chumachenko. She has been soloist with orchestras in Scandinavia, England, Germany, Switzerland and the Baltic countries. Vilde Frang has appeared at the Verbier, Schleswig Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern festivals. She made her debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in November 2007 and was immediately reinvited for a concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 2008/2009. In spring 2008 she will make her Munich debut and it will be followed by concerts with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christoph Poppen, Ludwigsburg Festival and the Classix Festival Braunschweig. In summer 2008 she she will play Brahms Double Concerto with Andreas Brantelid, conducted by Richard Hickox at Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, a concert with the Bergen Philharmonic and chamber music at the Kissinger Sommer. In October 2008 Vilde Frang will tour in the US with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Camerata Salzburg. A tour in Sweden with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eivind Aadland is planned in February 2009. Vilde Frang won many prizes, most notably the Danish Léonie Sonning Music Fund (2003) and the Grand Prize of the Vera and Oscar Ritter Foundation, Hamburg in 2007. She is a scholarship holder in the prestigious Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.