Born in Oslo in 1973, the Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud studied with Camilla Wicks and Emanuel Hurwitz and is a recipient of Norway’s prestigious Grieg Prize, the Ole Bull Prize and the Sibelius Prize. He is a professor at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, and appears as a soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. He has enjoyed successful artistic collaborations with many conductors including Marek Janowski, Ivan Fischer, Paavo Berglund, Kirill Petrenko, Yakov Kreizberg, Mariss Jansons, Stephane Denève and Kurt Sanderling. A committed chamber musician, Henning Kraggerud also performs both on violin and on viola at major international festivals, collaborating with musicians such as Stephen Kovacevich, Kathryn Stott, Leif Ove Andsnes, Jeffrey Kahane, Truls Mørk and Martha Argerich. His recordings include an acclaimed release of the complete Unaccompanied Violin Sonatas of Ysaÿe for Simax, and he is a winner of the Spellemann CD Award. His recordings for Naxos include Grieg’s Violin Sonatas (Naxos 8.553904) and Norwegian Favourites (Naxos 8.554497) for violin and orchestra. He plays a 1744 Guarneri del Gesù instrument (violin bow: Niels Jørgen Røine, Oslo 2003), provided by Dextra Musica AS, a company founded by Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR.