Origin Sweden Instruments Violin Record label Nosag | Occupation(s) Violinist Genre Classical Albums Swedish Rhapsody | |
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Birth name Sara Katarina Trobäck Hesselink Associated acts Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Similar Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Per Enoksson, Petter Sundkvist, Kurt Atterberg, Swedish Chamber Orchestra | ||
Sara Katarina Trobäck Hesselink (born 1978) is a Swedish violinist. Since 2002, she has been leader of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
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Career
Born in 1978 in Örebro in central Sweden, Trobäck began to play the violin when she was five. She was first taught by Sten-Göran Thorell, then when she was 12 years old, by Tibor Fülep. In 1994, when she was 16, she entered the Gothenburg College of Music, while from 1996 to 2001 she studied under Gyorgy Pauk at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She also attended master classes with Yehudi Menuhin, Maxim Vengerov, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Ruggerio Ricci, Cho-Liang Lin and Joshua Bell.
While still young, she performed as a soloist throughout Sweden, making her London debut in 1999 with the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, where she played Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. She has also performed with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and the Musica Vitae chamber orchestra. She has twice taken part in the SummerFest concerts for young artists in La Jolla, California (2002 and 2003), and has performed widely throughout Europe. She is also a co-founder of Trio Poseidon which was established in 2002.
In 2002, Trobäck was appointed leader of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. She is the first women to have reached this position. She plays a Guadagnini from 1753, on loan from the Järnåker Foundation.
Discography
Songs
Svensk rapsodiSwedish Rhapsody · 2010
No 3 VaggvisaSwedish Rhapsody · 2010
Gammal sangpolskaSwedish Rhapsody · 2010