In 2012 Vilde Frang (violin) 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, Concertgbouw 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 including 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, plus her much- anticipated debut with Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Vilde also embarks on international tours with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra with Makela, London Symphony Orchestra with Pappano, Deutsche Symphony Orchestra Berlin with Ticciati, Münchner Philharmoniker with Grazintye-Tyla and the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Vladimir Jurowski. She also embarks on a Bach cycle with the Basel Kammerorchester.
A keen and prominent chamber musician, Vilde regularly appears at the Lucerne Festival, BBC Proms in London, festivals in Verbier, Lockenhaus, George Enescu Festival, Salzburg Festival and the Prague Spring Music Festival. She also appears regularly in recital at Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Vienna Musikverein, Philharmonie Berlin, Tonhalle Zurich and the Bozar in Brussels, as well in North America as part of 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 early music ensemble, Arcangelo, and later in the season performs chamber music with close collaborators, Lawrence Power, Valeriy Sokolov, Denis Kozhukhin and Maximillian 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 Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. She studied at Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt in Oslo, with Kolja Blacher at Musikhochschule Hamburg and Ana Humachenco at the Kronberg Academy.
Vilde performs on a 1734 Guarneri del Gesu, generously loaned to her by a European benefactor.
