in 2012, she also won the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award at the Lucerne Festival - just like Sol Gabetta eight years earlier. Today, the Norwegian violinist is one of the "most expressive and at the same time most reflective artists of our time", according to the NZZ (20.07.2019).
"Music has always been my oxygen," says Vilde Frang. And Paavo Järvi said: "Vilde Frang is a great musician. She is very unique because she has her very own view of things."
Her career began at the age of just 12 when she performed with the Oslo Philharmonic under the direction of the late Mariss Jansons. Later, on the advice of Anne-Sophie Mutter, she went to Germany for further studies. Mutter subsequently became her artistic mentor for some time.
Rafael Payare, who made his debut with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich at the 2018 Dîner Musical, will be conducting. The violin concerto will be preceded by Béla Bartók's suite "The Miraculous Mandarin". Rafael Payare said of the work: "A wonderful piece, and thoroughly grateful and virtuoso". The trained horn player Payare was lucky enough to be an assistant to conductors such as Claudio Abbado and Daniel Barenboim and to have Lorin Maazel as his teacher. The latter gave him the following advice: "You have to be able to dance with an orchestra." Dvořák himself said of the Seventh Symphony, which is heard after the interval: "My symphony should be such that it moves the world."
