Vilde Frang

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About Vilde

Award-winning violinist Vilde Frang was unanimously awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artists Award in 2012 which led to her debut with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Bernard Haitink at the Lucerne Festival. She has since developed into one of the foremost violinists and works regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors.

The 2025/26 season will see Vilde return to the London Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Rotterdam Philharmonic and her her much anticipated debut with New York Philharmonic.

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

Vilde is based in Berlin, Oslo

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Tia Ling

Tia Ling

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Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt (excl. Spain & Italy) Partner managers: Spain: Duetto Management Italy: AMC Artists Management

Season Highlights

Aug 2025
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35 Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) 7 August 2025 | Hollywood Bowl
Sep 2025
Czech Philharmonic
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor Robin Ticciati (conductor) 19 September 2025 | Rudolfinum — Dvořák Hall
Jan 2026
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Bartok: Violin Concerto no.2 Lahav Shani (conductor) 15 & 16 January 2026 | De Doelen
Feb 2026
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | European Tour
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D major Robin Ticciati (conductor) 07 February 2026 | Kronberg (tbc) 08 February 2026 | Ludwigsburg 10 February 2026 | BOZAR, Brussels 11 February 2026 | De Singel, Antwerp 12 February 2026 | Heerlen 13 February 2026 | Bayreuth
Feb 2026
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bartok: Violin Concerto no.2 Iván Fischer (conductor) 26 & 27 February 2026 | Herkulessaal Der Residenz, Munich
Mar 2026
New York Philharmonic
Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.61 Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor) 5, 6 & 7 March 2026 | David Geffen Hall
Apr 2026
London Symphony Orchestra
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35 Antonio Pappano (conductor) 16 April 2026 | Barbican, London 27 April 2026 Musikverein, Vienna
May 2026 - Jun 2026
Utopia Orchestra | European Tour
Berg: Violin Concerto Teodor Currentzis (conductor) 27 May 2026 | Liederhalle Stuttgart 29 May 2026 | Tonhalle Zürich 31 May 2026 | Victoria Hall Geneva 01 June 2026 | Casino Bern 03 June 2026 | Santa Cecilia Hall 04 June 2026 | Bologna

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Press

  • Bertrand Chamayou (piano) Belcea Quartet (ensemble)

    Festival Ravel, Eglise Saint-Pierre, France
    Aug 2023
    • ★★★★★ Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata for two solo violins is a huge work, almost as long as the Chausson, that Vilde Frang and the quartet’s leader, Corinne Belcea, negotiated with relish and technical brilliance. In the languid opening movement they traded tunes, played follow-my-leader and let the Belgian composer’s melodies intertwine sweetly as they teased the audience with the joy of their interplay. The stripped back Allegretto that followed gave way to a rewarding Allegro finale. Music of this work’s prolixity is not guaranteed to enthral and it will only succeed if the players are comparable in brilliance and musical insight – as was the case here.

  • Elgar Violin Concerto

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Mar 2023
    • The accomplished Norwegian soloist Vilde Frang took command with her poignantly thoughtful entry and played with consistent expressivity throughout. The eloquently pensive cadenza to the final movement, the soloist’s evocative arabesques accompanied by the gentle thrumming of orchestral strings, at last found soloist and conductor in perfect harmony.

  • Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1

    London Symphony Orchestra
    Feb 2023
    • I reviewed Frang’s performance of Bartök’s First Violin Concerto in Berlin Philharmonie with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski in September last year, saying it was ‘a terrific performance of huge virtuosity and élan, entirely convincing at every turn,’ and the same could easily apply to her performance of the Shostakovich First with Payare. The long lines of the expansive opening Nocturne (marked ‘Moderato’) carried huge weight, while the orchestra offered a chthonic underpinning thanks to the eight double basses. Frang’s sound was positively smoky at the opening; her core sound was slightly wiry (but not for one second thin), which suited the melodies perfectly, while her lower register was positively throaty. Most important of all was the way Frang understood Shostakovich’s lines; Payare, meanwhile, proved himself the perfect partner with her throughout. There was a timelessness about this performance that was absolutely transfixing, while Frang’s playing was notable for the sheer purity of her intervals within the line (the sustained high note at the movement’s end was also the finest I have heard live). The fierce Scherzo was a riot of energy. Virtuoso, certainly, but utterly relentless – and how Payare assured definition in the lower strings at speed. How different the Passacaglia, with its softening. Daniel Jemison’s bassoon solos were particularly noteworthy, as was the combined insight of Frang and Payare in seeing the piece as one great cumulative, carefully calibrated uncurling (Frang’s stopping, too, was so perfectly in tune). The rapport of soloist and conductor extended into the Burlesque finale – Shostakovich’s writing here is merciless, his demands for co-ordination between violin and orchestra almost insuperable – and it was just this element that spurred Frang and Payare to edge-of-the-seat antics.

  • Bartók Violin Concerto No. 1

    Budapest Festival Orchestra
    Nov 2022
    • The soloist, Norwegian Vilde Frang, seemed to emphasise the pained and unrequited love that Bartók felt towards the work’s dedicatee, the not-yet 20-year-old violinist Stefi Geyer, with the warm intensity of her opening D major seventh chord, repeated many times later by the gradually entering divided string sections of the orchestra.... It cannot be said that the soloist surprised anyone with the beautifully controlled density of her vibrato or the earnestness of her interpretation, for her attitude towards the compositions she chooses to perform is unfailingly sincere, respectful, yet looking for uncharted musical solutions. She meticulously followed the score’s detailed instructions, whilst creating her own interpretation, which was as memorable as it was unique.

  • Berg Violin Concerto

    San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
    Apr 2022
    • This was as gentle, warm, and lyrical a rendition as could be asked for of a work that already tends in that direction, having been composed as a memorial for Alma Mahler’s 18-year-old daughter, whom Berg had known well, and also — as it turned out — for Berg himself, who died only four months after completing it. Frang’s silky and long-breathed playing was quiet, even shy, yet always audible.

  • Britten Violin Concerto

    London Symphony Orchestra
    Mar 2020
    • ★★★★★ In an exceptional account of the work, Vilde Frang seemed not so much to play it as to live it, etching every phrase with uncompromising emotional directness, while Pappano’s conducting veered between restless energy and relentless momentum. The whole thing was overwhelming and unforgettable.

    • ★★★★★ The violinist Vilde Frang’s purity of tone, whistling harmonics and sobbing lower register sang clearly through the strafing of timpani and cymbals in the concerto. Frang’s playing was vividly emotional, her candour and connection to the orchestra riveting.

    • ★★★★★ They are rebuked now by a violinist of supreme intelligence, one who holds the perfect Apollonian poise between passion and precision, alert in her slightly other-worldly way to what the orchestra is doing around her, miraculously attuned to the chamber-music she is sometimes asked to make with her fellow strings. In the dying fall after the many turns of the screw to Britten's passacaglia variations for the epic third movement, Frang took us on an out-of-body journey, never overdoing the major-minor oscillations which can sometimes seem self-pitying. The partnership with Pappano and the orchestra was breathtaking, sometimes quite literally so.