Biography
Eldbjorg has already performed with many of Norway's leading orchestras including the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra with Josep Caballe-Domenech, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra with Alan Buribayev, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra with Peter Szilvay and the Oslo Camerata. Abroad she has appeared with the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra/Alan Buribayev, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Jyvaskyla Sinfonia in Finland, the Czech Chamber Orchestra of Pardubice, the Ashland Symphony Orchestra in the USA, as well as making several appearances with the Ukrainian National Philharmonic Orchestra.
Future engagements will include her debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, an eight date Spanish tour with the Oslo Camerata, concerts with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, a tour of Norway with the newly formed North of Norway Symphony Orchestra and performances with the Trondheim Soloists and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra in the Far East. Eldbjorg is also in demand as a festival artist with appearances in recent years at the Bergen International Festival, the Oslo Chamber Music Festival, the Bad Kissingen Festival in Germany, Nordlys Festival in Tromso, and the Elverum Festival amongst others.
As a recitalist Eldbjorg has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, the Verbier Festival, at the Stavanger Chamber Music Festival and at AlpenKlassik in Germany. In 2008 she opened the Bergen International Festival, performed Bach with Bobby McFerrin and Arve Tellefsen at the Olavsfestdagene Festival in Trondheim and gave a series of concerts at the Oslo Chamber Music Festival. This season she will also perform a series of recitals in Norway and the UK.
Eldbjorg has received many national and international prizes, and is continually praised for her ability to connect with the audience. In 2006 she won 'Musician of the Year' in Norway's Young Musician Competition, and that same year was awarded the Audience Prize at the Verbier Festival. Eldbjorg won 1st Prize and Audience Prize in the Virtuos Competition in Norway and subsequently represented Norway in the 'Young Musicians 2008' final in Vienna, where she was a prize winner and received the audience prize after receiving the most votes from viewers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She is the current recipient of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra's prize for Promising Young Artists and the Norwegian Soloist Prize.
Eldbjorg is a versatile musician, equally at home performing folk music on the Hardanger Fiddle as classical music. She often performs in chamber groups with such artists as Havard Gimse and Patrick Gallois, and has appeared at the Verbier Academy and Seiji Ozawa's Academy in Switzerland. She also performs in a duo partnership with her sister Ragnhild.
Eldbjorg Hemsing is well known in Norway through her radio and television appearances and has performed during State visits for the King of Norway.
Eldbjorg Hemsing was born in Valdres in Norway in 1990 and started to play the violin at the age of five. At the age of seven she was accepted into the prestigious Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo. She is currently taking lessons in Vienna from Prof. Boris Kuschnir.
Eldbjorg Hemsing plays a GB Guadagnini violin from 1754 kindly on loan from the Dextra Musica Foundation.
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