Welcome to Worldwide Artists


Marianne Thorsen performs 
at the opening concert of the 
Ski World Championships 2025

Klassisk symfoni


26 feb. 2025 Kl 22:00

27 feb. 2025 Kl 21:00


Klassisk symfoni at Nidarosdomen, Trondheim's Nidaros Cathedral.


Marianne Thorsen, Violin

Antonio Vivaldi

The Four Seasons: Winter


Trondheim Symphony Orchestra

Dirigent, Anna Maria Helsing


           Full concert details           

Photo: Ole Wuttudal

News: 

FLORENCE PRICE première recording: 
Octet for Brasses and Piano (1930)
 
Viv McLean with Onyx Brass, John Wilson 

Onyx Brass new release: 


 

Worldwide 
Artists
about us

Established in 2009, Worldwide Artists represents a select roster of international concert and recording artists. 

Worldwide Artists provides expert consulting services to classical music festivals and organisations. WA is the music contractor for the London Soundtrack Orchestra and London Ensemble; and is a leading name in international private and corporate event music management and special project development.
New Marianne Thorsen Recording 

with Trondheim Symphony Orchestra / Nick Davies

2L-173-SABD

Marianne Thorsen spiller herlig, med god og feit tone, og overlegent overskudd der hun virkelig lener seg inn i musikken. 

Marianne Thorsen plays beautifully, with a good and bold tone, and superior energy where she really leans into the music.

Ballade.no

RICHARD STRAUSS

Concerto No.1, Op.11 in E-Flat Major

Concerto No.2 in E-Flat Major

 

CARL MARIA VON WEBER

Concertino, Op.45 In E Minor

 

ROBERT SCHUMANN

Concertstück, Op.86 in F Major for Four Horns and Large Orchestra

 

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / John Wilson


CHANDOS


Digital UPC: 095115216828

CD UPC: 095115216828

…this is a recording of distinction.


Recording of the Month - Recommended (Oct '23)


Peter J Rabinowitz Gramophone magazine



…there’s no greater tonic that the Schumann, and no better sonorities could be imagined; the recording captures them beautifully … It’s a sheer joy, with only superficial melancholy adding more colours. I’ll be playing that over and over again.


David Nice BBC Music magazine




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The world premiere of Hitchcock's Psycho with Herrmann's score as a live orchestral soundtrack - launching SKY Movies’ season of Hitchcock films presented in HD.



WORLDWIDE ARTISTS

ORCHESTRA CONTRACTOR

The London Soundtrack Orchestra

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The world premiere of Hitchcock's Psycho with Herrmann's score as a live orchestral soundtrack - launching SKY Movies’ season of Hitchcock films presented in HD.

WORLDWIDE ARTISTS

ORCHESTRA CONTRACTOR

The London Soundtrack Orchestra

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The world premiere of Hitchcock's Psycho with Herrmann's score as a live orchestral soundtrack - launching SKY Movies’ season of Hitchcock films presented in HD.

WORLDWIDE ARTISTS

ORCHESTRA CONTRACTOR

The London Soundtrack Orchestra


MARIANNE THORSEN violin

The Independent
Concert Review, Nielsen Concerto Performance, London

The glory of the evening, however, was the Norwegian violinist Marianne Thorsen's performance of Nielsen's Violin Concerto - technically first-rate and full of love for this very lovable music.

International Record Review
Mozart: Concertos 3-5 CD (2L)
Trondheim Soloists 
Norwegian Spellemann Prize: 
Best Classical Album

This was masterly playing, impeccably phrased and articulated. Rarely has Mozart come dancing off the page so enticingly. Thorsen's deeply committed playing succeeds in making the music both expressively cogent and structurally compelling.

About Marianne

MARTIN OWEN horn

The Sunday Times 
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings CD (Linn) 
Scottish Ensemble, Toby Spence 

Owen's playing is a luxury for the ear.

The Times 
Elliot Carter Concerto at the composer's 100th birthday at the Barbican. BBCSO / Oliver Knussen 

Martin Owen dazzled us in the recent Horn Concerto, a jubilant celebration of this "peculiar instrument" (Carter's phrase), with the solo gymnastics magically tinctured by a rainbow of wonders, from tutti shrieks and a percussion salsa to whispers of vibraphone and muted brass.
About Martin

VIV MCLEAN piano

Le Monde, Paris
Recital performance at Festival de Melle, France

Extraordinary originality, superb simplicity, and fingers of steel hidden behind muscles of velvet. He is an otherworldly young man - he plays with the genius one finds in those who know how to forget themselves, naturally placing themselves at the right point to meet the music, this mystery of the moment.

The Times
Recital performance at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London.

The pianist Viv McLean never faltered, spewing molten lava.
About Viv

RUI PINHEIRO
conductor

Hardmusica, Portugal
Concert with Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa including Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto with Artur Pizarro

Pinheiro is a sober conductor, with restrained but firm gestures, always keeping the musicians attentive to his baton. Rui Pinheiro is a conductor which, by the simplicity of his conducting, achieves exactly what he wants: a brilliant and perfect execution of the works he interprets.

Bournemouth Echo 
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Pinheiro's immaculate orchestral balancing delighted our ears...finely gauged attention to the music's character…under the direction of Rui Pinheiro it was clear that the Pavilion soundstage had been transformed…with Rui Pinheiro on the podium we were assured well-focused reading.

About Rui