Eivind Ringstad - About

As a young musician today it is a privilege to get support from BBT, which takes care of its musicians helping them both financially and with advice on how to find their own path. For me the BBT means a lot because of their understanding of the classical music world and how I, as a young musician, can take my place amongst the vast majority of great musicians. This kind of support is rare, and I am very honoured that I have joined the BBT family

Norwegian violist Eivind Ringstad is soloist, chamber player and orchestral principal, now with the London Symphony Orchestra after the Oslo Philharmonic. He is also co-artistic director of the Norsjø Chamber Music Festival, where his chamber partners include fellow BBT alumni Amahi Grosz, Martin Fröst, Beatrice Rana, Timothy Ridout and BBT honorary artistic committee member Leif Ove Andsnes. As a further string to his bow, Eivind is a professor of viola at London’s Royal College of Music.

Eivind used his 2016 BBT Fellowship not only for new photographs and a new website, but also to facilitate participation in two major hothouses for young classical musicians: Prussia Cove Music Seminar in Cornwall and the Festpiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Junge Elite Bothmer Musik. BBT also supported Correspondances (sic), Eivind’s Rubicon Classics debut recital CD featuring sonatas by Arthur Benjamin and Paul Hindemith and Belgian works by Vieuxtemps and Ysaÿe (appropriately, as Eivind plays the 1768 ‘ex-Vieuxtemps’ Guadagnini viola on the disc); and BBT was also on hand to make a video blog about Eivind’s recording.

Eivind was supported with a BBT Fellowship between 2016 and 2021.

For a current biography please visit nordicartistsmanagement.com

Read a blog by Eivind, Recording Correspondances, here

Press Release: Correspondances

Photographs by Nikolaj Lund