Vilde Frang

Born in Norway in 1986, 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 Chumachenco at the Kronberg Academy. She has also worked with Mitsuko Uchida as a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship winner 2007, and was a scholarship-holder 2003-2009 in the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. Vilde Frang was unanimously awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2012 and made her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink at the Lucerne Festival.

Highlights among her recent and forthcoming solo engagements include performances with Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, and the NHK Symphony in Tokyo, with conductors such as Ivan Fischer, Manfred Honeck, Zubin Mehta, Renee Jacobs, Teodor Currentzis, Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Harding, Vladimir Jurowski, David Zinman, Philippe Herreweghe, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yuri Temirkanov and Sir Simon Rattle.

She regularly appears at festivals in Salzburg, Verbier, Lucerne, Prague Spring Music Festival and George Enescu Festival Bucharest. As soloist and in recital, Vilde has performed at venues such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Musikverein Vienna, Wigmore Hall and Royal Albert Hall London, Tonhalle Zurich, Bozar Brussels, Rudolfinum Prague, San Francisco Performances, and at Carnegie Hall.

Vilde Frang is an exclusive Warner Classics artist and her recordings have received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque, Edison Klassiek Award, Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Diapason d'Or and Gramophone Award.

Since 2020, she is artistic board member of Oslo Chamber Music Festival.

Vilde Frang plays the 1734 “Rode” Guarnerius, on generous loan by a European benefactor.

As of 2023