Ulf Wallin studied in Stockholm with Sven Karpe and in Vienna with Wolfgang Schneiderhan. His artistic collaborators including con- ductors Manfred Honeck, Paavo Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Franz Wel- ser-Möst as well as Bruno Canino, Barbara Hendricks, Heinz Holliger and Ro- land Pöntinen. His dedication to contemporary music is highlighted by his close contacts with several eminent composers among them Anders Eliasson, Alfred Schnittke and Rodion Shchedrin. Ulf Wallin has appeared at numerous major festivals and in some of the the world’s leading venues, including the Berlin Philharmonie, La Scala di Milano, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna. He is professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He has also served on juries of leading international competitions. In 2013 he was awarded the Robert-Schumann-Preis der Stadt Zwickau and in 2014 he was elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.