Biography
Laurens Weinhold is a Norwegian award-winning violinist. He enjoys a versatile performing career, playing numerous solo works, concerti, chamber music, contemporary music, and orchestral works every season.
He has won first prizes in the National Norwegian Youth Music Competition, Sparre Olsen Competition, and the DNB National SoloistCompetition 2014 Fjord Cadenza. Weinhold has collaborated with contemporary composers and premiered works of Ståle Kleiberg, Ragnar Bjerkreim, Janpieter Biesemans and Dániel Péter Biró. Weinhold is interested in interdisciplinary projects and has worked together with artists such as Kjell Pahr-Iversen , Hagit Yakira, Helge Torvund , PaalHelge Haugen, Sondre Oldereide Michaelsen, Yumiko Ashley and Live Skullerud among others.
Weinhold has received numerous grants, awards, and international scholarships including the Oleg Kagan scholarship from Kuhmo Festival, the Culture Carinthia Grant for participations in the Ossiach Academy on invitation of the members of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Joseph Rosen scholarship for Outstanding Talent at Casalmaggiore Festival 2019 and the highest talent scholarship G9alt for culture from Sparebank 1 SR-Bank.
Weinhold has performed at several international festivals including the ICMF, Fartein Valen Festival, Summit Music Festival, Casalmaggiore Festival, NYCMF, Mozarteum Salzburg, Klara Festival ,Norwegian Organ Festival, Kuhmo Festival, Ravel Festival, Klara Festival , Evmelia Festival, Schiermonnikoog Young Talent Festival and St. Florian Brucknertage among others. His performances have been repeatedly broadcasted by Radio Klara, BBC and NRK.
Weinhold has played in major halls such as the Fartein Valen hall in the Stavanger Concert Hall, the Théâtre de la Monnaie (Brussels), the Town Hall in Kaunas, the Palais Pallavicini in Vienna and the Musikverein.
Weinhold has been a soloist with the Brussels Chamber Orchestra, 1B1, Sandnes Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian Youth Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Young Masters Orchestra, Mainzer Virtuosi, and Kaunas Symphony Orchestra, collaborating with famous conductors such as Rune Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Wallez, Alexander Zemtsov, and Morten Wensberg. Weinhold is an experienced chamber musician. He has collaborated with, among others, Jakob Koranyi, Erling R. Eriksen, Sveinung Bjelland, Markus Schirmer, Anton Sorokow, Orfeo Mandozzi, Philipp Scheucher, Jie Zhang and Bodil Victoria Arnesen.
In the coming season, Weinhold has his focus on works of Beethoven as a member of the Ålesund String Quartet. In the 2020-2021 season he will record for Toccata Classics.
