Frida Fredrikke Waaler Wærvågen (b. 1988) is an Norwegian cellist with a long and solid background. She started her career as a 5 year old at the local music school in Horten. From the age of 10 she was a pupil at the private music institute Barratt-Due in Oslo. She studied with Professor Aage Kvalbein for six years and with Professor Truls Mørk at the Norwegian Academy of Music while taking her Bachelor where she graduated in 2011. Frida Fredrikke…
Frida Fredrikke Waaler Wærvågen (b. 1988) is an Norwegian cellist with a long and solid background. She started her career as a 5 year old at the local music school in Horten. From the age of 10 she was a pupil at the private music institute Barratt-Due in Oslo. She studied with Professor Aage Kvalbein for six years and with Professor Truls Mørk at the Norwegian Academy of Music while taking her Bachelor where she graduated in 2011.
Frida Fredrikke has also studied with Professor Frans Helmerson during an exchange year at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. Spring 2014, Frida Fredrikke is graduating with a Master after two years at the Edsberg Castle, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, with Professor Torleif Thedéen.
Since the age of 11, Frida Fredrikke has won prices and scholarships international and national: “Young Musician” in Tallinn, Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition in Porec, Arve Tellefsen Music Prize, RWE Dea Music Scholarship and many more. She has made her mark as a soloist with several orchestras at home and abroad such as the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ensemble Allegria, the Royal Norwegian Navy Band, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Kaunas Philharmonic.
Autumn 2013, Frida Fredrikke was nominated to the Statoil Classical Talent Prize (1 mill.NOK), and in 2014 she was a finalist in the Swedish Soloist Competition performing the Dvorak cello concerto with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
Frida Fredrikke is playing on a Nicolas Lupot cello, 1823. The cello is kindly borrowed to her by Dextra Musica, Norway.
Mars 2014