Ida Bryhn

Born in Oslo, prize-winning violist Ida Bryhn is recognised as a profiled young artist in Norwegian musical life. She is principal violist in the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and is regularly invited as a guest principal by orchestras such as the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Camerata Nordica, Oslo Philharmonic and Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Ida is also on trial for principal viola in the Philharmonia Orchestra in London.

Ida is a popular teacher, at both the Norwegian State Academy and the Barratt Dues Music Institution in Oslo. She also gives masterclasses at Gothenburg University and is part of The Transposition Project in Vietnam: a musical and social education programme in Hanoi. A keen chamber musician, Ida has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe and the US. She regularly performs at such Norwegian festivals as the Bergen International, Oslo Chamber Music, Risør Chamber Music, Røros Winter Chamber Music and Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music, and appears at festivals abroad including the Verbier, Ravinia, IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music and Schleswig-Holstein. She has been the soloist with the Oslo Philharmonic, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, Ålesund Chamber Orchestra and a number of other symphony and chamber orchestras. She has played with musicians such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Isabelle Faust, Anner Bylsma, Truls Mørk, Thorleif Theden, Vilde Frang, Phillippe Graffin and Andreas Brantelid, and with ensembles like the Razumovsky Ensemble, Diamant Ensemble (Copenhagen), Oslo String Quartet and Vertavo String Quartet. She has recorded chamber music by Mozart and Brahms, and this spring will launch her latest CD on the Norwegian Grammy Award-winning label 2L.

Ida studied with Soon Mi Chung, Björn Sjögren, Pascal Siffert, Kim Kashkashian and Lars Anders Tomter.