We are very excited to have Sara Övinge and Elise Båtnes back at Summer Academy 2025!
At 16 Sara started her Bachelor at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, followed by Solo Diplomas at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and The Royal College of Music in London. During her education Sara was a multiple prize-winner; she was the youngest ever diploma graduate from Oslo, she won “The Listeners’ Prize” in the Swedish Soloist Prize and the Ljunggrenska competition for Young Musicians in 2010. Sara has performed as a soloist with many of Scandinavia’s leading orchestras, including Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. Sara was appointed Associate Concertmaster at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet in 2014, a position she left to fulfill her passion for an eclectic range of performance and music making. She engages passionately in education, teaching at Barrat Due, The Norwegian Academy of Music, and The Summer Academy Voksenåsen.
Norwegian born violinist Elise Båtnes is concertmaster at the Oslo philharmonic since 2008. She first played with the orchestra as a soloist when she was 10 years old under the baton of Maestro Mariss Jansons. She then became concertmaster of both WDR Köln and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra before returning to the Oslo philharmonic. Båtnes is in great demand as guest concertmaster all over Europe and she has recently collaborated with Chamber Orchestra of Europe, London Symphony Orchestra, Teatro Real Madrid and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Båtnes is a professor of violin at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
The strings course is from August 11-15th
Application deadline is April 6th. Apply here.
Read more about the Summer Academy here.