Bjørg Pas (b. 2004) is a 20 years old violinist, currently getting her Bachelor’s degree at the “Royal Academy of Music” in London. She has performed as a soloist in front of well-known orchestras such as the Oslo Philharmonic and the Norwegian Broadcasting orchestra, and is acknowledged as one of the most talented young musicians of Norway.

Miss Pas started her life in Trysil, Norway, where she grew up with musical parents and four playing siblings. She tried the violin for the first time at the age of 4, and has stood by the choice to become a violinist ever since. At the age of 5, she made her way to Oslo for the first time to begin as a student with Ting zu Chen at the Barratt Due Institute of Music; and at the age of 8, she was accepted into Barratt Due’s talent development program “Young Talents” as one of the youngest people ever. This has afterwards been considered an important start of her career.

In 2017, Bjørg had the pleasure of taking part in her very first music festival, as a shared soloist alongside known Norwegian performer Ragnhild Hemsing during the Hemsing Festival. This was the beginning of her sincere wish to continue her life as a performing musician; a dream she’s clearly held onto ever since. Later that year, she got to relive life as a soloist, this time as a finalist in the international music competition “Young Musicians” in Estonia. Here, she won 1st prize, as well as two prizes for the best performance of a newly written work. As a part of the musical profession, Bjørg has taken part in several masterclasses and trips abroad over the years, where she’s been taught by internationally known teachers such as Donald Weilerstein, Barnabas Kelemen and Dora Schwarzberg, all of whom have helped her further in her dream as a performing musician.

In 2020, Bjørg performed as a soloist with the Oslo Philharmonic for the first time, in a concert series called “The sound of the environment”; an experience she relived in 2022, which led her to a total of 15 concerts with the renowned orchestra. She has later also performed with orchestra’s like Hedmarken Symphony Orchestra in Norway, The Norwegian University of Oslo’s Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra, the festival orchestra of the “Mozartmania” festival in Spain, and most recently the Central London Orchestra where she performed the famous J. Brahms’ Double Concerto for Violin and Cello.

Bjørg has also displayed promising accomplishments as chamber- and orchestral musician. She has participated in multiple orchestra programs throughout the years, and has had the pleasure to play side-by-side with both the Oslo Philharmonic and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. She has performed chamber music with well-known musicians such as Lars Anders Tomter, Danish String Quartet, John Myerscough, Donald Weilerstein and Anthony Marwood, during numerous festivals both nationally and internationally; such as the “Risør Chambermusic Festival” and the “Yellow Barn music festival”. She has performed on some of Scandinavia’s most known stages, and recently had her debut in Wigmore Hall in London as a part of the Karelia String Quartet. She regularly travels through Scandinavia performing with her own growingly celebrated quartet, the “Sostenuto Quartet”.

Over the years, Bjørg has taken part in multiple national and international competitions; amongst others, the “Cooper International Violin Competition” in the USA and the “Szymanowski International Music Competition” in Poland – both of which are stated as one of the larger international Music Competitions in the world. Most recently, she performed as the only Scandinavian candidate in the “Khachaturian International Music Competition” in Armenia, 2024.

For support of her musical career, Bjørg has been so lucky as to received numerous grants and forms of support; such as the Peder Gullmoen and wife Jenny’s grant for young musicians, the Ingerid, synnøve and Elias Fergerstens foundation scholarship for performing musicians, the Eiliv Gunstrøm and daughter Bess memorial grant, and private support for her studies by Aud Mørck. She has also been associated with the Helen Worswick Award at the Royal Academy of Music. Bjørg currently plays a Vuillaume violin kindly loaned to her through the Beare’s International Violin Society by a generous sponsor. She has previously borrowed a G.B Guadagnini 1773 Il Torino violin, which she borrowed from Anders Sveeas’ Charitable Fond’s instrument collection in a 3-year period.

As of today, Bjørg studies with Dr. Robin Wilson as a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London.