Vilde Frang - About

To become a part of BBT is a privilege in itself, and the opportunities this has given me, such as to work with Mitsuko Uchida, are of the greatest value and inspiration. Having won a BBT Fellowship and receiving all support the Trust offers without any sense of competition, feels quite unbelievable!

BBT’s most significant contribution to Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang’s early professional career was the support of her impressive EMI debut disc featuring repertoire dear to her heart – Prokofiev and Sibelius violin concertos, the latter having made a profound impression on her at the tender age of five. The subsequent reviews certainly announced her talent to the world: “This is an unusually potent debut recording from a prodigiously gifted artist … Frang’s chemistry is disarmingly exquisite” (International Record Review). Still winning awards for her recordings two decades on, she is one of her generation’s foremost violinists and is in demand at concert halls around the world, and consistently praised for her technical brilliance, thoughtful expressivity and enthralling stage presence.

Vilde’s BBT Fellowship also funded a demo CD (leading to her EMI signing), publicity photographs, travel costs, masterclasses and attendance at the Verbier Festival Academy as part of BBT’s support of its Chamber Music Programme from 2006 to 2009.

Vilde was supported with a BBT Fellowship between 2007 and 2011.

For a current biography please visit vildefrang.com or askonasholt.co.uk

Photographs by Marco Borggreve