Sara Övinge

Sara Övinge started playing the violin at four years old and had her first soloist performance with her local Symphony orchestra in Norrköping at the age of nine. At 16 she 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 prizewinner; 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 & Ballet in 2014, a position she left to fulfill her passion for an eclectic range of performance and music making. She is a member of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and the contemporary music ensemble Cikada and has been guest Concertmaster for Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.
Sara has personally collaborated with many of Norway’s leading artists, including Bugge Wesseltoft, Nils Bech, Kjetil Bjerkestrand, Trygve Seim, Anja Lauvdal and Eivind Aarset. Besides working with non-classical musicians, Sara has also explored the possibilities in movement combined with violin playing and created, in 2018, a solo performance with choreographer Gunhild Bjørnsgaard that had its premiere at the Contemporary art center in Armenia. She also had the main role in the music theatre performance of Verklärte Nacht with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, winning the YAMawards in 2019.
Sara engages passionately in education, teaching at Barrat DueInstitute of Music, the Norwegian Academy of Music, and Voksenåsen Summer Academy.
Sara currently plays on a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from 1754, generously loaned to her from Dextra Musica.