Linda Hedlund graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, in 2002 and went on to complete her doctorate in violin performance at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, in 2010. Since 2019 she has specialised in Baroque violin performance at Novia University of Applied Sciences in Finland.

Performing internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, Hedlund has appeared as a soloist with La Tempesta Orchestra and in ensemble alongside the principal players of the Vienna Philharmonic and pianist Oliver Kern, as well as with numerous other orchestras and chamber groups worldwide.

She has given masterclasses at the International Summer Academy Cervo, Italy, and the University of Hawaii, and performed at music festivals across Europe including at the Grafenegg Festival (Austria), Nancyphonies (France) and Teatro Bibiena, Mantova (Italy). In 2006 she founded the Emäsalo Music Festival, held every summer in southern Finland.

For her debut recording she collaborated with pianist Oliver Kern in sonatas by Franck, Saint-Saëns and Debussy. A second disc, of music by Schubert, Bartók and Piazzolla with guitarist Otto Tolonen, was released in 2011.

For more information, visit www.lindahedlund.com.