Eldbjørg Hemsing, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra & Gergely Madaras
Biographie Eldbjørg Hemsing, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra & Gergely Madaras
Eldbjørg Hemsing
Norwegian violinist and Hardanger fiddler Ragnhild Hemsing moves naturally between classical repertoire and the folk music of her native Valdres. She began playing at the age of five, studied at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo and with Boris Kuschnir in Vienna, and made her orchestral debut at fourteen with the Bergen Philharmonic and Trondheim Symphony orchestras.
Her projects reveal the shared musical language of her two instruments. Vivaldi – The Norwegian Seasons, created with Barokkanerne, hears the Four Seasons through the ornamentation and rhythmic life of Norwegian folk music. Peer Gynt reconnects Grieg’s score with the traditional music that inspired it, while VETRA opens her Valdres roots to jazz and improvisation. Her Berlin Classics recordings include the Opus Klassik-winning Røta, Bruch + Tveitt, Peer Gynt, VETRA, The Norwegian Seasons and Unbound.
Hemsing co-founded the Hemsing Festival in Aurdal with her sister Eldbjørg in 2013. She plays Ole Bull’s historic Hardanger fiddle, Jordalsfela, and a Francesco Ruggeri violin made in Cremona in 1694, both on loan from Dextra Musica.
Gergely Madaras
is Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, a position he assumed in September 2019. He enjoys a flourishing collaboration with the orchestra, which includes multiple concert series in Liège and Bozar in Brussels, regular broadcasts on Mezzo TV, Medici TV, and RTBF, as well as a growing discography with Alpha Classics, Cyprés, and Nomad Play. He concluded his tenure as Music Director of the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne in 2019 and as Chief Conductor of the Savaria Symphony Orchestra in his native Hungary in 2020, after six years with each ensemble.
