Camilla Wicks exclusive radio recordings
The American-Norwegian violinist Camilla Wicks is portrayed in this release, celebrating her 80-year birthday in 2008. She made her first performances in Norway in 1947, and today Camilla Wicks is well known all over the world both as an outstanding performer and teacher. The present release contains material spanning her entire carer, presenting radio and concert recordings on CD for the first time.
For almost three generations, Camilla Wicks has been known among musicians and audiences all over the world. She studied with Louis Persinger at Julliard and made her debut in New York Town Hall only 13 years old. She went on to perform with such orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony and New York Philharmonic. She has collaborated closely with Ernest Bloch in the shaping of his violin concerto, and also performed the concertos of Harald Sæverud and Klaus Egge with the New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall. Wicks has held teaching positions at University of Michigan, Rice University and Eastman School.
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The American-Norwegian violinist Camilla Wicks is portrayed in this release, celebrating her 80-year birthday in 2008. She made her first performances in Norway in 1947, and today Camilla Wicks is well known all over the world both as an outstanding performer and teacher. The present release contains material spanning her entire carer, presenting radio and concert recordings on CD for the first time.
Wicks returned to Oslo as a professor of violin in the 1970. During the two years she taught at the then newly formed Norwegian Academy of Music, she formed a strong attachment to the musical community of the country through concerts and master classes. Many of today’s most prominent Norwegian violinists, Henning Kraggerud and Stefan Barratt-Due, are among her former students.
