Anne Camilla Furre Thommesen

Anne Camilla Furre Thommesen is a trained violist with a master’s degree from the University of Agder and a bachelor’s degree from the Barratt-Due Music Institute in Oslo. There, she studied under Ida Bryhn and Soon-Mi Chung as her primary instrument teachers.  

 Anne Camilla has extensive orchestral experience gained through freelance work with Norwegian orchestras. She currently combines her own performing career with a position as an advisor, project manager, and orchestra coordinator at the Department of Classical Music and Music Education at the University of Agder.  Thommesen has been a soloist with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra and the Agder Symphony Orchestra; she has won several prizes in competitions and has performed as a chamber musician in Europe, the United States, and Asia. Today, she is a permanent member of the group Scandinavian Chamber Soloists.  Anne Camilla has worked as a substitute with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra since 2016, where The Sound of Music was her first production. In 2025, she will perform as a musician in Kilden production of *Ghosts* by Henrik Ibsen.