Norwegian violinist and composer Henning Kraggerud is joining the Irish Chamber Orchestra as its new artistic partner from August 2025. Kraggerud joined the orchestra this month for concerts in Ireland presenting Between the Seasons, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons alongside three of Kraggerud’s own works. This will be Kraggerud’s third tour with the orchestra, in 2022 he joined them for a programme highlighting music from Kraggerud’s native Norway and then last year they performed Kraggerud’s orchestration of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Henning Kraggerud is artistic director of the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra in Tromsø. His recording with them, Between the Seasons featuring Vivaldi and his own compositions came out on Simax in 2018 [see my review]. He is a Professor of Violin and Viola at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he also teaches improvisation.
He is also the Chair of Violin and a Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester. I caught him and the RNCM Chamber Orchestra at RNCM’s Original Voices Festival in 2023 including movements from his version of the Goldberg Variations. [see my review]
Further details from the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s website.
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "A terrific sense of collaboration: composer Colin Matthews and writer William Boyd on their first opera, A Visit to Friends")
