Arthur Trælnes

Arthur Trælnes was born in Lausanne in 2002. He began learning the violin at the age of 6, and at 16, he joined the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne (HEMU) in Gyula Stuller’s class, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in 2022. He then joined Alexander Kerr’s class (former concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam) at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University (Bloomington, USA), where he obtained a Solo Performance Diploma in 2023, before pursuing Master’s studies there.

Arthur has won numerous awards in national and international competitions as a soloist, including 3rd Prize and the Audience Award at the Tibor Varga Junior Competition in 2018, followed by an invitation from Gidon Kremer to perform as a soloist with his orchestra in Latvia. He also won 1st Prize at the Final of the International Competition for Violin and Orchestra “Premio Rotary per la musica” in Novi Ligure, Italy (2019), 4th Prize at the Tibor Varga Competition (2021), the contemporary music prize at the Spohr Competition in Weimar in 2022, as well as 3rd Prize at the Final of the Franco Gulli Competition in Rome in 2024.

Arthur has performed as a soloist on several occasions in Switzerland, Germany, Georgia, Italy, Latvia, and the United States, and held the position of concertmaster of the Verbier Festival Orchestra from 2022 to 2024, collaborating closely with renowned conductors such as Simon Rattle, Gianandrea Noseda, Klaus Mäkelä, and Lahav Shani. He has also been a member of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra since 2023.

He is regularly invited to perform at Masterclasses, notably at the Kronberg Academy Festival in 2021 (Kolja Blacher) and at the Thüringer Landes Musikakademie Sondershausen (Friedemann Eichhorn) in 2022, where he performs Tchaikovsky’s Concerto with orchestra. In November 2024, he will perform Mozart’s 5^th Concerto with orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York during a Masterclass with Maxim Vengerov.

Arthur plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Ceruti dating from 1797 (Cremona, Italy). At the 2023 edition of the Verbier Festival, he had the opportunity to perform on a Stradivarius (“Hrimali”, 1712).

He regularly performs as a jazz violinist, notably with his quintet “Crome,” which has already released two albums (Komorebi, 2020 and Oneiroi, 2023).