The Swedish violinist Ulf Wallin studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with Professor Sven Karpe and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Wolfgang Schneiderhan.
He has toured extensively throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. He has worked with such eminent conductors as Jesús Lopéz Cobos, Manfred Honeck, Paavo Järvi, Andrew Manze, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Walter Weller, and Franz Welser-Möst. Always in demand as a chamber musician, Ulf Wallin has collaborated with artists such as Bruno Canino, Barbara Hendricks, Heinz Holliger, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Roland Pöntinen, and András Schiff.Ulf Wallin has performed at numerous major festivals, including the Lucerne and Berlin music festivals, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, the Musiktage Mondsee, the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, and the Marlboro Music Festival. He has performed in the world’s leading halls, including the Berlin Philharmonie, La Scala in Milan, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Musikverein in Vienna.Ulf Wallin’s dedication to contemporary music is highlighted by his close contacts with several eminent composers, including Anders Eliasson, Alfred Schnittke, and Rodion Shchedrin.He has made numerous appearances on radio and television, and his more than 50 CD recordings (BIS, cop, EMI, and BMG) have earned him acclaim and international media attention.Ulf Wallin is a professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin and a guest professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He has served on the juries of major international competitions such as the ARD Competition in Munich, the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hanover, and the Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition in Vienna.
In 2013, he was awarded the Robert-Schumann-Preis der Stadt Zwickau, and in 2014, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Ulf Wallin plays a violin by the Venetian master Domenico Montagnana from 1746.
