Frang has the knack of breathing life into every note, whether by variations in phrasing, attack, tone or dynamic—just a few of the weapons in her impressive musical armory. bbc music magazine    

Recognized worldwide for her great virtuosity and the special sound of her playing, Vilde Frang is one of the most sought-after violinists in the concert field. In 2012, she was unanimously awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award. This was associated with her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink at the Lucerne Festival.

Highlights of her current and future solo engagements include performances with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, under conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Manfred Honeck, Mariss Jansons, Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Harding, Vladimir Jurowski, Christoph Eschenbach, David Zinman, Leonard Slatkin, Esa Pekka Salonen, Yuri Temirkanov and Sir Simon Rattle.

Vilde Frang performs regularly at festivals in Salzburg, Verbier, Lucerne, London, Rheingau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lockenhaus, the Prague Spring Music Festival and the George Enescu Festival Bucharest. She has performed as a soloist and in recitals at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Musikverein Vienna, the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Bozar in Brussels, the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the Vancouver Recital Series, the Boston Celebrity Series and the San Francisco Performances, as well as at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Born in Norway in 1986, Vilde Frang was engaged by Mariss Jansons for her debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of twelve. She studied at the Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt in Oslo and with Kolja Blacher at the Musikhochschule in Hamburg. She also worked with Mitsuko Uchida in 2007 as the winner of a scholarship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust. From 2003 to 2009 she was a scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.

Vilde plays an important violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, Cremona 1734, known as the “ex Rode”, a generous loan by a member of the Stretton Society.