Ludvig Gudim (born 1999 in Oslo) is the winner of the Juilliard Violin Concerto Competition and has received numerous national and international awards. In 2014, he won 3rd prize in the prestigious international Menuhin Competition (Junior Division). He has also received the Norwegian Soloist Prize, represented Norway in the Eurovision Young Musicians competition in Cologne, and was named “Musician of the Year” in the Norwegian Young Musicians Competition. In 2016, he was awarded 2nd prize in the Princess Astrid International Violin Competition.
As a soloist, Ludvig has performed with a wide range of orchestras around the world, including the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Chamber Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Soloists, Oslo Camerata, and London’s Orpheus Sinfonia. He also served as concertmaster of Young Strings of Norway for several years. The Korean Herald described him as “a world-class concertmaster.”
An avid chamber musician, Ludvig has performed with highly acclaimed artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Janine Jansen, Alisa Weilerstein, Kathryn Stott, Steven Isserlis, Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Anders Tomter, Ivry Gitlis, and musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic. He has participated in the Verbier Festival, “Chamber Music Connects the World” at the Kronberg Academy, and the Bergen International Festival.
Ludvig began studying violin at the age of five, and from 2007 he was a student at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Norway, where he studied under Stephan Barratt-Due and Henning Kraggerud. In 2013, he began traveling to New York to attend the Perlman Music Program. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Juilliard, where he studied with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin. Ludvig plays a 1710 Antonio Stradivari violin, generously on loan from the Anders Sveaas Foundation. He was also part of the prestigious Crescendo mentoring program.
Since 2025 he is one of the concertmasters for Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen.