The Norwegian violinist Guro Kleven Hagen (b. 1994) made a highly successful debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Jukka Pekka Saraste in 2011, and has since been working as a soloist and chamber musician. Her recording of Prokofiev’s 2nd and Bruch’s 1st Violin Concertos with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Bjarte Engeset was chosen as “Editor ́s Choice of the Month” by Gramophone Magazine in August 2014. The recording was also short-listed in the Gramophone Guide as one of the finest classical releases of 2014/2015. Guro has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Germany, Russia, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Estonia, Israel, Jordan and Norway, colloborating with conductors such as Vasily Petrenko, Krzysztof Urbanski, Ed Garner, Christian Vasques, Christian Arming, Cornelius Meister, Ari Rasilainen and Eivind Aadland.
As a chamber musician, Guro has performed with Janine Jansen, Leif Ove Andsnes, Maxim Rysanov, Lars Anders Tomter, Shlomo Mintz, István Várdai, Itamar Golan and Ida Haendel. She is a regular guest to many of Norway’s leading festivals including the Risør, Elverum and the Oslo Chamber Music Festivals and is currently the Artistic Director of Valdres Sommersymfoni. She also, together with four other musicians, established the Edvard Munch Ensemble.
Guro is a prize winner of numerous international competitions, including EMCY’s prize for Music in the Menuhin Competition 2010 and the 2nd prize in the Eurovision Young Musician Competition in Vienna 2010. She received the Arve Tellefsen Musicians Prize (2014), the Statoil talent scholarship in classical music (2013), the Norwegian Soloist Award (2010), the Prinz-von-Hessen-Preis in Kronberg (2009), and was celebrated as Norway’s Young Musician of the Year at the age of fourteen (2008). In 2016, Guro finished her studies with Antje Weithaas at the“Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler” in Berlin, after several years of studying with Stephan Barratt-Due and Alf Richard Kraggerud at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo.
Guro plays on a C. Bergonzi, also known as the “Kreisler-Bergonzi” kindly on loan from Dextra Musica.
March 2017
