KRAGGERUD, HENNING (b 1973 )Henning Kraggerud (born in Oslo, Norway 1973) has established himself as one of Scandinavia`s leading international soloists. Among his teachers are Camilla Wicks, Emanuel Hurwitz and Stephan Barratt-Due.
Kraggerud enjoys a close relationship with many of the major Scandinavian orchestras and has worked with conductors such as Marek Janowski, Ivan Fischer, Paavo Berglund, Kirill Petrenko, Yakov Kreizberg, Mariss Jansons and Kurt Sanderling. Highlights of the last few seasons have included two visits to the Komische Oper Orchestra in Berlin performing Tchaikovsky under Kreizberg and Mendelssohn under Petrenko, performances of the Sibelius concerto with the Bergen Philharmonic to open their season, his highly successful debut at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw performing Mendelssohn with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and in spring 2004 he was Artist in Residence at the 2004 Bergen International Music Festival, where he performed recitals, chamber music and concertos throughout the Festival.
A committed chamber musician, Henning Kraggerud performs regularly at many of the major international festivals collaborating with musicians such as Stephen Kovacevich, Kathryn Stott, Leif Ove Andsnes, Jeffrey Kahane, Truls Mørk and Martha Argerich and Pieter Wispelwey. In 2004 he performed in the Young Masters series at the Wigmore Hall. He is also known as an outstanding violist and enjoys an equally fine reputation as leader / soloist of chamber orchestras and sinfoniettas. Kraggerud is a recipient of Norway’s prestigious “Grieg Prize”. He playson a 1744 Guarneri del Gesu, provided by Dextra Musica AS.
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