In 2012 Vilde Frang was unanimously awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artists Award and subsequently made her debut at the Lucerne Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink. Famous for her profound musicality and extraordinary lyricism, she is now considered one of the most outstanding violinists of her generation. She performs regularly with leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra. She has worked with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Maxim Emelyanychev, Iván Fischer, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Manfred Honeck, Jakub Hrůša, Paavo Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Antonio Pappano, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Rattle and Lahav Shani.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season included her debut with the New York Philharmonic performing Elgar’s Violin Concerto, and her returns to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. She also toured with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Robin Ticciati and the Utopia Orchestra under Teodor Currentzis, and continued her Bach cycle with the Basel Chamber Orchestra.
A committed chamber musician, she regularly appears at the Lucerne Festival, the BBC Proms, the festivals of Verbier and Lockenhaus, the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest, the Prague Spring Festival and the Salzburg Festival, and gives recitals at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Musikverein, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Zurich Tonhalle, Bozar in Brussels, the Vancouver Recital Series and the Boston Celebrity Series.
She is an exclusive artist with Warner Classics. Her recordings have won numerous awards, including the Edison Klassiek, the Diapason d’Or, the German Record Critics’ Award, the Grand Prix du Disque, the BBC Music Magazine Award and two Gramophone Awards.
Vilde Frang was born in Norway and made her debut with the Oslo Philharmonic under Mariss Jansons at the age of twelve. She studied at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg with Kolja Blacher and the Kronberg Academy with Ana Chumachenco.
Vilde Frang plays a Guarneri del Gesù from 1734, generously loaned to her by a European benefactor.
