Vilde Frang
Vilde Frang Bjærke (born 19 August 1986) is a Norwegian classical violinist.
Vilde Frang
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- Full name
- Vilde Frang Bjærke.
- Born
- 1986. · Oslo.
- Nationality
- Norway.
- Occupation
- violinist and musician.
- Fields
- classical music.
- Education
- Barratt Due Institute of Music.
- Teachers
- Kolja Blacher, Ana Chumachenco, Stephan Barratt-Due and Henning Kraggerud.
- Honours
- Spellemannprisen in classical music, The Prince Eugen Culture Prize, The Norwegian soloist award, Echo Klassik, Classic Brit Awards and Spellemann Awards for best international success of the year.
- Languages
- Norwegian.
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Early life and education
Early life and education
Vilde Frang studied at Barratt Due Institute of Music. Training under Kolja Blacher, Ana Chumachenco and Stephan Barratt-Due is recorded. The recorded working language is Norwegian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Employment is recorded with Norwegian Academy of Music. Distinctions recorded are Spellemannprisen in classical music, The Prince Eugen Culture Prize, The Norwegian soloist award and Echo Klassik.
Born in Oslo, Norway, Frang began playing the violin by the Suzuki method at the age of four. She grew up in a musical family with both her father and her sister playing the double bass. In the years 1993–2002 she studied with Stephan Barratt-Due, Alf Richard Kraggerud and Henning Kraggerud at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo. Frang made her soloist debut at the age of ten with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. In 1998 she was introduced to Anne-Sophie Mutter, who became her mentor and later appointed her a scholarship holder in the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. She was aged twelve in 1999 when Mariss Jansons engaged her as a soloist with the Oslo Philharmonic. From 2003 to 2009 Frang continued her studies in Germany, with Kolja Blacher at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and Ana Chumachenco at the Kronberg Academy. Frang received a 2007 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and also had lessons with Mitsuko Uchida in London.
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Vilde Frang (born 19 August 1986) is described as a violinist and musician in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth of Vilde Frang is recorded on 19 August 1986 in Oslo.
Career
Career
In 2007, Frang's debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in their Eastbourne series led to a re-engagement in the following season, under Vladimir Jurowski at the Royal Festival Hall. In 2008, Vilde Frang signed exclusively to EMI Classics (now Warner Classics). Her debut album was released in 2009 and received high praise from critics and audiences alike, and she was named EMI Classics' Young Artist of the Year 2010. Her recordings for EMI / Warner Classics have received numerous awards including a Classical BRIT, Deutsche Schallplattenpreis twice, four ECHO Klassik Awards, two Edisson Klassiek Awards, Diapason d'Or and two Gramophone Awards. Winner of the 2012 Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, Frang performed the Sibelius violin concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink at the Lucerne Festival. In 2013 she made her London Proms debut, playing the Bruch Violin Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic under John Storgards at the Royal Albert Hall. In 2016, Frang performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle as part of their Europe Concert in Røros, Norway. Frang has held a part-time professorship (professor II) at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo since 2013. Until 2021 she has played an 1864 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin. Since then she has performed on the 1734 'Rode' Guarneri 'del Gesù' violin, on loan from the Stretton Society.
Discography
Prokofiev & Sibelius: Violin Concertos (2009). With WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln and Thomas Søndergård (conductor). EMI Classics Grieg, Bartók, R. Strauss: Violin Sonatas (2011). With Michail Lifits (piano). EMI Classics Nielsen & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos (2012). With Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor). EMI Classics Mozart: Violin Concertos 1&5 and Sinfonia Concertante (2015). With Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor) and Maxim Rysanov (viola). Warner Classics Korngold & Britten: Violin Concertos (2016). With Frankfurt Radio Symphony and James Gaffigan (conductor). Warner Classics Homage (2017). With José Gallardo. (piano). Warner Classics Bartók Violin Concerto No.1 & Enescu Octet (2018). With Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck (conductor), Erik Schumann, Gabriel Le Magadure, Rosanne Philippens, violins; Lawrence Power, Lily Francis, violas; Nicolas Altstaedt and Jan-Erik Gustafsson, cellos. Warner Classics Veress: String Trio & Bartók: Piano Quintet (2019). With Barnabás Kelemen, violin; Katalin Kokas and Lawrence Power, violas; Nicolas Altstaedt, cello and Alexander Lonquich, piano. Alpha Classics Paganini & Schubert: Works for violin and piano (2019). With Michail Lifits (piano). Warner Classics Beethoven: Songs and Folksongs (2020). With Ian Bostridge (song), Antonio Pappano (piano) and Nicolas Altstaedt (cello). Warner Classics Beethoven & Stravinsky: Violin Concertos (2022). With The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Pekka Kuusisto (conductor). Warner Classics Elgar: Violin Concerto (2024). With Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Robin Ticciati (conductor). Warner Classics
Vilde Frang er vinneren av Arve Tellefsens Musikkpris 2010. Bildet er tatt 2. august 2010, etter at hun holdt konsert i Frimurerlogen i Trondheim.
Stian Hansen · Vilde Frang
Vilde Frang at a concert in Boswil, Switzerland in summer 2013
Fred Schaerli
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reference work
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q291627: Vilde Frang
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- “Vilde Frang”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 108876309X, Violin concertos (Zusammenstellung, Vilde Frang, 2016).
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Awards
Leonie Sonnings Musikfonds (2003) Ritter-Stiftung Grand Prize (2007) Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellowship (2007) The Prince Eugen Culture Prize, 2007 The Danish Queen Ingrid‘s Honorary Prize (2009) The Norwegian soloist prize (2009) Spellemannsprisen, Classical music. For Prokofiev & Sibelius: Violin Concertos. 2009 Statoil's Classical Music Award (2010) Edison Klassiek Newcomer Award for Prokofiev & Sibelius: Violin Concertos.2011 Echo Klassik Award, newcomer award violin for Grieg, Bartók & R.Strauss: Sonatas. 2011 Classic Brit Newcomer Award for Prokofiev & Sibelius: Violin Concertos. 2011 Crédit Suisse Young Artist Award (2012) Edison Klassiek Chamber Music Award for Grieg, Bartók & R. Straus: Sonatas. 2012 Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik (2012) for Nielsen & Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos. Echo Klassik Award (2013) Echo Klassik Award (2015) Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik (2015) for Mozart Violin Concertos 1&5 and Sinfonia Concertante. Echo Klassik Award (2016) Gramophone Classical Music Award (2016) Diapason d'or de l'année (2018) for Bartók Violin Concerto No. 1 & Enescu Octet Grand Prix L'Acádemie Charles Cros (2018) for Bartók Violin Concerto No. 1 and Enescu Octet BBC Music Magazine Award (Chamber Award) 2020 for Veress String Trio & Bartók Piano Quintet. Gramophone Classical Music Award (Chamber Category) (2020) for Veress String Trio & Bartók Piano Quintet. ICMA (International Classical Music Award) (Concertos Category) (2023) for Beethoven & Stravinsky Violin Concertos. Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik (2023) for Beethoven & Stravinsky Violin Concertos. ICMA (International Classical Music Award) (Concertos Category) (2025) for Elgar Violin Concerto. BBC Music Magazine Award (Concerto Award) 2025 for Elgar Violin Concerto. Gramophone Classical Music Award (Concerto Award) 2025 for Elgar Violin Concerto.
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- 1.Violinist.com interview with Vilde Frang: Carl Nielsen Violin Concerto. Violinist.com.
- 2.Violinist Vilde Frang on Building a Career & Her Upcoming Release of Encore Music. Strings Magazine. 2017-05-31.
- 3.The scholarship holders - Anne Sophie Mutter. Anne-sophie-mutter.de.
- 4.Wroe, Nicholas. Vilde Frang – from prodigy to virtuoso. The Guardian. 20 April 2012.
- 5.Mackenzie, Sir Compton. The Gramophone. C. Mackenzie. 35. 2008.
- 6.Vilde Frang - Fellowship. Bbtrust.com.
- 7.Vilde FRANG. Amati-tokyo.com.
- 8.Kronberg Academy: Vilde Frang. Kronbergacademy.de.
- 9.Vilde Frang. Askonasholt.co.uk.
- 10.Proms 2013 Proms Chamber Music 1: Ravel, Mozart & Lutosławski. Bbc.co.uk.
- 11.Simon Rattle conducts the 2016 European Concert in Røros. Digitalconcerthall.com.
- 12.Vilde Frang - The Norwegian Academy of Music. Nmh.no.
- 13.Stipendiaten der Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund. Mozart-gesellschaft-dortmund.de.
- 14.Vilde Frang Store norske leksikon, retrieved 26 April 2013
- 15.Vilde Frang Bjærke receives Statoil's classical music award. Statoil.com.
- 16.Vilde Frang awarded Credit Suisse Young Artists Award. Askonasholt.co.uk. 2 December 2011.
- 17.Echo – in Archiv nachschlagen.
- 18.Preisträger 2015.
- 19.ECHO KLASSIK Awards 2016. Askonasholt.co.uk. 21 July 2016.
- 20.Concerto. Gramophone.co.uk.
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