Biography
Eldbjørg has already performed with all of Norway’s leading orchestras including the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra with Josep Caballé-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 Norrköping Symphony Orchestra/Alan Buribayev, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Wiener Symfoniker, 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.
The 09/10 season included 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 Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra and performances with the Trondheim Soloists and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra in the Far East premiering Tan Dun’s violin concerto, “The Love”. Also this season she performed a series of recitals in Norway and the UK.
This season she will return to Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and perform the European premiere of Tan Dun’s violin concerto, perform at Huddersfield Contemporary Festival, appear with the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, tour the Canary Island with the Trondheim Soloists and perform with the Kristiansand and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. She will also be giving recitals in Norway and in Denmark.
Eldbjørg is also in demand as a festival artist with appearances in recent years at the Bergen International Festival, the Oslo Chamber Music Festival, the Bellerive Festival and the Bad Kissingen Festival, Nordlys Festival in Tromsø, and the Elverum Festival amongst others.
As a recitalist Eldbjørg 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.
Eldbjørg 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. Eldbjørg 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. She is also awarded the Statoil Grant.
Eldbjørg is a versatile musician, equally at home performing folk music on the Hardanger Fiddle as classical music. She often performs in chamber groups 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.
Eldbjørg is well known in Norway through her radio and television appearances and has performed during State visits for the King of Norway.
Born in Valdres in Norway in 1990, Eldbjørg 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.
Eldbjørg plays a GB Guadagnini violin from 1754 kindly on loan from the Dextra Musica Foundation.
Eldbjørg Hemsing
www.eldbjorghemsing.com
+ 47 91 87 83 59
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