Vilde Frang
About this Artist
In 2012, Vilde Frang was unanimously awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artists Award, which led to her debut with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Bernard Haitink at the Lucerne Festival.
Her profound musicianship and exceptional lyricism have elevated her as one of the foremost violinists of her generation. She continues to appear regularly with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Cleveland Orchestra. She has enjoyed collaborations with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mariss Jansons, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Ivan Fischer, Maxim Emelyanychev, Jakub Hrůša, Vladimir Jurowski, Manfred Honeck, Teodor Currentzis, Daniel Harding, Antonio Pappano, Lahav Shani, Paavo Järvi, and Yuri Temirkanov.
Highlights of the current season include her return to the Berliner Philharmoniker with Kirill Petrenko and her much-anticipated debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Vilde also embarks on international tours with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under Mäkelä, the London Symphony Orchestra with Pappano, the Deutsche Symphony Orchestra Berlin with Ticciati, the Münchner Philharmoniker with Gražinytė-Tyla, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Vladimir Jurowski. Additionally, she undertakes a Bach cycle with the Basel Kammerorchester.
A keen and prominent chamber musician, Vilde regularly appears at the Lucerne Festival, BBC Proms in London, and festivals such as Verbier, Lockenhaus, George Enescu Festival, Salzburg Festival, and the Prague Spring Music Festival. She also frequently performs recitals at Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Vienna Musikverein, Philharmonie Berlin, Tonhalle Zurich, and the Bozar in Brussels. In North America, she has been featured in the Vancouver Recital Series, Boston Celebrity Series, and San Francisco Performances. Vilde returns to the Wigmore Hall as Artist in Residence, where she joins forces with the early music ensemble Arcangelo and later in the season performs chamber music with close collaborators Lawrence Power, Valeriy Sokolov, Denis Kozhukhin, and Maximilian Hornung.
Vilde Frang is an exclusive Warner Classics artist, and her recordings have received numerous awards, including the Edison Klassiek Award, “Diapason d’Or” by Diapason Magazine, Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Grand Prix du Disque, and two Gramophone Awards.
Born in Norway, Vilde was engaged by Mariss Jansons at the age of twelve to debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. She studied at the Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt in Oslo, with Kolja Blacher at Musikhochschule Hamburg, and Ana Chumachenco at the Kronberg Academy.
Vilde performs on a 1734 Guarneri del Gesù, generously loaned to her by a European benefactor.