Ragnhild Hemsing was born in 1988 into the heart of the Norwegian folk region, Valdres. She began to play the violin at 5 years of age and, showing exceptional talent, was invited to enroll at the prestigious Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo at the age of nine. Ragnhild is currently studying in Vienna, taking violin lessons from the renowned teacher Prof. Boris Kuschnir. Ragnhild performs a broad range of repertoire and is already an artist of astonishing versatility,…
Ragnhild Hemsing was born in 1988 into the heart of the Norwegian folk region, Valdres. She began to play the violin at 5 years of age and, showing exceptional talent, was invited to enroll at the prestigious Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo at the age of nine. Ragnhild is currently studying in Vienna, taking violin lessons from the renowned teacher Prof. Boris Kuschnir. Ragnhild performs a broad range of repertoire and is already an artist of astonishing versatility, she is in demand across the full range of repertoire as a concerto artist, recitalist and chamber musician. She supplements her large repertoire of standard solo classical works for violin with more unusual and complex works written for the Hardanger fiddle.
Ragnhild has been the recipient of many prizes, including First Prize and European Union Prize at the Kocian International Violin Competition in the Czech Republic, First Prize and Special Prize at the 2003 European Music Prize for Youth (Chamber Music), held in Austria, as well as winning all of Norway’s major youth competitions.
Ragnhild Hemsing plays on a Francesco Ruggeri Violin built in Cremona in 1694 kindly on loan from the Dextra Musica Foundation.
March 2011