Andreas Alexander Martinsen (born 2005) has distinguished himself as a young and promising Norwegian violinist. He began playing the violin at the age of six at the cultural school in Lørenskog, and continued at the Barratt-Due Music Institute in Oslo. He is now studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Professor Robin Wilson.
In 2023, he won first prize in his class at the Youth Music Championship, and the year before, his string quartet, called “Sostenuto,” was awarded the Midgard Prize at the Midgard Competition in Horten.
He has been concertmaster in a number of ensembles and symphony orchestras, most notably in the Ung-Filharmoni over the past three years. In the summer of 2023, Andreas was group leader in the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra at the prestigious Verbier Festival in Switzerland.
He has played as a member of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Andreas has also impressed as a soloist with, among others, the Barratt Due Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the Oslo Philharmonic. The program included: “Tzigane” by Maurice Ravel, Jean Sibelius' violin concerto, and The Snowman by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
(photo: Nanna Wessel-Sundt)
