Guro is the prize winner of numerous International competitions, including the 2nd Prize in the European Broadcasting Union's (EBU) competition Eurovision Young Musicians 2010, and EMCY Prize in the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists 2010. She's this years winner of the Norwegian Soloist Award, and was celebrated as Norway's Young Musician of the Year in 2008 at the Ungdommens Musikkmesterskap (Norwegian Music Competition for Youth).

She is studying with Stephan Barratt-Due in Oslo, after nine years working with Alf Richard Kraggerud. She is also a student at the Razumovsky Academy (London), and has played in master classes for Sarah Chang, Ana Chumachenco, Mauricio Fuks, Ida Haendel, Boris Kuschnir, Shlomo Mintz, Dora Schwarzberg, Pavel Vernikov and others.

Guro has performed in several International Music Festivals, including Verbier Festival Academy and Bergen International Festival, and has been soloist with orchestras in Norway, Estonia, Poland, Austria, Russia and Germany – including the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra. Engagements for the season 2010/11 include playing Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (Jukka-Pekka Saraste).

Guro plays on a J. B. Vuillaume (1850) kindly on loan from Dextra Musica.

Repertoire

Solo

J. S. Bach, Sonata No. 1 in G minor (BVW 1001)
J. S. Bach, Partita No. 2 in D minor (BVW 1004)
J. S. Bach, Partita No. 3 in E Major (BVW 1006)
J. Corigliano, The Red Violin Caprices
G. E. Haugland, If I am not for myself, who will be?
F. Kreisler, Recitativo and Scherzo (Op. 6)
G. P. Telemann, Fantasy No. 7 in E flat Major (TWV 40:20)
G. P. Telemann, Fantasy No. 8 in E Major (TWV 40:21)
E. Ysaÿe, Sonata No. 2 in A minor (Op. 27, No. 2)
E. Ysaÿe, Sonata No. 3 in D minor 'Ballade' (Op. 27, No. 3)
E. Ysaÿe, Sonata No. 6 in E Major (Op. 27, No. 6)

With piano

J. Achron, Hebrew melody (Op. 33)
L. Auerbach, Sonata No. 2 'September 11' (Op. 63)
C. Baden, Elegie (Op. 51) (with organ)
J. Brahms, Sonata No. 3 in D minor (Op. 108)
O. Bull, Polacca Guerriera
O. Bull, Rondo Giocoso
M. de Falla, Spanish Dance (arr. F. Kreisler)
E. Grieg, Sonata No. 2 in G Major (Op. 13)
F. Kreisler, Liebesleid
F. Kreisler, Prelude and Allegro
F. Kreisler, Schön Rosmarin
F. Kreisler, Tambourin Chinois
W. Kroll, Banjo and Fiddle
J. Massenet, Meditation from Thais
V. Monti, Czardas
M. Ravel, Tzigane
P. de Sarasate, Carmen Fantasy (Op. 25)
P. de Sarasate, Serenata Andaluza (Op. 28)
P. de Sarasate, Introduction and Tarantella (Op. 43)
F. Schubert, Sonata No. 3 in G minor (D408)
C. G. Sparre Olsen, Berceuse
J. S. Svendsen, Romance (Op. 26)
H. Wieniawski, Legende (Op. 17)
H. Wieniawski, Mazurka 'Obertas' (Op. 19, No. 1)
H. Wieniawski, Mazurka 'Dudziarz' (Op. 19, No. 2)
H. Wieniawski, Polonaise de Concert in D Major (Op. 4)
E. Zimbalist, Fantasy on themes from The Golden Cockerel by Rimsky-Korsakov

With orchestra

L. van Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D Major (Op. 61)
J. Brahms, Violin Concerto in D Major (Op. 77)
M. Bruch, Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor (Op. 26)
A. Glazunov, Violin Concerto in A minor (Op. 82)
J. Haydn, Violin Concerto in G Major (Hob. VIIa/4)
D. Kabalevsky, Violin Concerto in C Major (Op. 48)
E. Lalo, Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor 'Symphonie Espagnole' (Op. 21)
F. Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor (Op. 64)
S. Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor (Op. 63)
J. Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D minor (Op. 47)
P. Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto (Op. 35)

If you are interested in working with Guro, please get in touch with the EMCY Office.