Born in Norway in 1986, Vilde Frang made her orchestral debut at the age of ten with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and two years later she was invited to appear with Mariss Jansons and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed extensively in Scandinavia, the UK, Germany, Switzerland and the Baltic countries, and has appeared at international festivals in Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg Vorpommern and Lucerne. She has performed in concert with Martha Argerich, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet and Maxim Vengerov, and she has toured Europe and the USA with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Camerata Salzburg. In 2007, Vilde Frang made her debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra; she returned to play with the orchestra and its principal conductor, Vladimir Jurowski, at the Royal Festival Hall in May 2009. Later that season she made an acclaimed debut recital at Wigmore Hall. Forthcoming engagements include the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic and Moscow Radio Symphony orchestras and the Deutsche Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin. Vilde Frang graduated in 2002 from the Barratt-Due Institute of Music in Oslo. Since 2003 she has studied with Kolja Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg. She was the first violinist to be invited to join the Kronberg Academy as a student of Ana Chumachenco. Vilde Frang has been awarded several prizes, including the Norwegian Soloist Prize, the Danish Sonning Music Fund and the Grand Prize of the Ritter Foundation Hamburg. She has received a scholarship from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation and a Fellowship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust; she also receives musical support from Dame Mitsuko Uchida. In January 2009 Vilde recorded her debut album of the Sibelius and Prokofiev Concertos with Thomas Sondergard and the WDR Symphony Orchestra, due for release on EMI Classics in January 2010.

• Recording demo CD
• Travel costs
• Masterclasses
• New Photos
• Support for her EMI debut disc
  

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