The Swedish violinist Ulf Wallin studied at the Royal College of Music in Stock holm with Sven Karpe and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Wolfgang Schneiderhan. Concert tours have taken him to Asia, Europe and the United States. He devotes himself to solo and chamber music with equal passion, his artistic collaborators including conductors Jesús Lopéz Cobos, Paavo Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salo nen, Walter Weller and Franz Welser-Möst as well as Bruno Canino, Barbara Hen dricks, Heinz Holliger, Roland Pöntinen und András Schiff. His dedication to contem porary music is highlighted by his close contacts with several eminent composers.
Ulf Wallin has appeared at numerous major festivals and in some of the the world’s leading venues, including the Berlin Philharmonie, La Scala di Milano, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna. In addition to his numerous radio and television appearances, he has made numerous acclaimed recordings, many of them with BIS. He is professor of violin at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He has served on juries for major inter na tional com petitions. In 2013 he was awarded the Robert-Schumann-Preis der Stadt Zwickau and in 2014 he was elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
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