Frida Siegrist Oliver, Viola

Venue
Rm 309 – Bruno Walter Orchestral Studio

Frida Siegrist Oliver was born in 1998 and studied the viola with Heidi Castleman and Carol Rodland at The Julliard School in New York, where she began her studies at the age of 18. Frida began playing the violin at the age of five with Eirik Stangenes and eventually went over to the viola. From the age of 10, she was a student of Soon-Mi Chung at the Barratt Due Institute of Music. At the age of 13, Frida became one of the participants of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra’s “Talent Search”, which is a part of Statoil’s Morgendagens Helter (Morning Heroes). At the age of 16, she was approved as a substitute in both the Oslo Philharmonic and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. Frida has been class winner at UMM in both the solo and duet class. In the spring of 2016, she was invited to participate in Virtuos.