Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang was born in Oslo and studied the violin at the city’s Barratt Due Institute of Music and with Kolja Blacher at Hamburg’s University of Music and Theatre. She also received help and encouragement from Ana Chumachenco at the Kronberg Academy. She was still only twelve when Mariss Jansons invited her to appear as a soloist with the Oslo Philharmonic. A scholarship from the Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation allowed her to start out on an international career at an early age. Important debuts include her first appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink at the 2012 Lucerne Festival and her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle in 2016. In the meantime she has performed with leading orchestras all over the world, including not only the ones already mentioned but also the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester of Berlin, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Liverpool Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Orchestra at the Mostly Mozart Festival at New York’s Lincoln Center. Among the conductors with whom she has worked are not only Rattle, Jansons and Haitink but also Herbert Blomstedt, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Iván Fischer, Sakari Oramo, Jakub Hrůša, Vladimir Jurowski, Manfred Honeck, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Daniel Harding, Semyon Bychkov, David Zinman, Sir Antonio Pappano, Lahav Shani, Paavo Järvi and Yuri Temirkanov. She plays a Guarneri del Gesù violin from 1734 that is on loan to her. She made her debut with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in 2019 performing Korngold’s Violin Concerto, following this up in 2023 with Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor under the direction of Zubin Mehta. In September 2023 she will be touring Europe with the orchestra and performing Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto.