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-Orchester Zürich, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and The Cleveland Orchestra. She has enjoyed collaborations with conductors including 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 2024/25 season include her return to the Berliner Philharmoniker with Kirill Petrenko, plus her much-anticipated debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Frang also embarks on international tours with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra with Klaus Mäkelä, London Symphony Orchestra with Pappano, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with Robin Ticciati, Münchner Philharmoniker with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Jurowski. She takes on a Bach cycle with Kammerorchester Basel.
A keen and prominent chamber musician, Vilde Frang appears regularly at the Lucerne Festival, BBC Proms in London, festivals in Verbier and Lockenhaus, the George Enescu Festival, Salzburg Festival, and Prague Spring Music Festival. She also appears regularly in recital at Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Musikverein, Philharmonie Berlin, Tonhalle Zürich, and the Bozar in Brussels, as well in North America as part of the Vancouver Recital Series, Boston Celebrity Series, and San Francisco Performances. She returned to London’s Wigmore Hall as Artist in Residence, joining forces with early music ensemble Arcangelo and later in the season performing chamber music with close collaborators Lawrence Power, Valeriy Sokolov, Denis Kozhukhin, and Maximilian Hornung.
Frang is an exclusive Warner Classics artist, and her recordings have received numerous awards, including the Edison Klassiek Award, “Diapason d’Or” from Diapason Magazine, Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Grand Prix du Disque, and two Gramophone awards.
Born in Norway, Vilde Frang was engaged by Mariss Jansons at the age of 12 to debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. She studied at Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt in Oslo, with Kolja Blacher at Musikhochschule Hamburg, and Ana Chumachenko at the Kronberg Academy.
Frang performs on a 1734 Guarneri del Gesu, generously loaned to her by a European benefactor.