Henning Kraggerud is a Norwegian violinist, violist, conductor, and composer. A student of
Camilla Wicks and
Emanuel Hurwitz,
Kraggerud made his first appearance in the United States at Carnegie Hall in 1998. He received the Grieg Prize in 2004, and in 2007 he was awarded the Sibelius Prize. He was named artist-in-residence at the Bergen International Festival, appeared as a guest artist at the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival in 2011, and participated in the Stavanger International Chamber Music Festival the following year.
Kraggerud succeeded
Leif Ove Andsnes as co-artistic director of the Risør Festival of Chamber Music, and in 2012 was named artistic director of the Tromsø Chamber Orchestra. Among other orchestras he has performed with are the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the
Brussels Philharmonic, and the
Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra.
Kraggerud has collaborated with
Joshua Bell,
Leonidas Kavakos,
Martha Argerich,
Imogen Cooper, and
Adrian Brendel, and he has performed in the BBC chamber concerts series.
Kraggerud is artistic director of the
Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, with a contract running until 2020. He has composed more than 200 works, some in response to commissions from the
Brodsky Quartet, the
Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, and the
Britten Sinfonia. He has recorded for Naxos,
2L, and Simax Classics.