Noa Wildschut

Dutch violinist Noa Wildschut entered the Warner Classics roster as a seasoned performer in autumn 2016, when she turned fifteen. Born March 9, 2001, in Hilversum, she began violin studies at age four and entered the youth ensemble Fancy Fiddlers one year later. By six she had performed live on Dutch television, and at seven she appeared for the first time in the Concertgebouw. Building on private instruction from Coosje Wijzenbeek, she attended master classes given by Menahem Pressler and Jaap van Zweden; these experiences prepared her for international contests by the time she reached nine. In 2010 she won first prize at the International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists in Weimar, Germany, against competitors as old as fourteen, and she soon collected several additional major Dutch national awards.

Her first formal recital took place in 2011, and a Dutch television documentary titled Noa11 was devoted to her the next year. Photogenic and spontaneous, she drew attention at major public occasions, among them the Kingdom Concert 2013, where she performed before twenty-one members of the Dutch royal family, and the Dalai Lama’s 2014 visit to the Netherlands. She has appeared as soloist with leading ensembles such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic, I Solisti di Zagreb, and Kremerata Baltica. In 2015 she took part in Anne-Sophie Mutter’s widely noted Yellow Lounge nightclub series and made her first recording on a live Deutsche Grammophon release documenting one of those concerts. Warner Classics signed her in 2016, scheduling a Mozart album for release the following year. She also became a member of Mutter’s Virtuosi and was slated to tour with the group in 2018.

While maintaining this schedule, Wildschut studies at the Amsterdam University of the Arts under Vera Beths and performs on a 1714 Giovanni Grancino violin fitted with a custom-made bow.