Miranda Nordqvist – winner 2025
Prize motivation
With her clarity of tone, a playful lightness to her virtuoso talents and her innate sense of rhythm, violist Miranda Nordqvist is a worthy winner of the 2025 Wallander prize.
Miranda Nordqvist was born and raised in Uppsala. She first played the violin at the age of five, but it was the more sonorous appeal of the viola that captured her attention, thanks to an inspirational music teacher.
She has completed both Bachelor and Masters degrees in Classical Music at Stockholm’s Royal College of Music. She is currently continuing her education in the form of advanced studies in interpretation at the Royal College of Music, concurrently with new Masters classes in Switzerland.
Handelsbanken has established a music prize in collaboration with the Royal College of Music
This is the Jan Wallander Prize, which is awarded annually to one of Sweden’s leading music students at one of the country’s music colleges. In addition to the honour, the award winner will be able to use an exceedingly high-class instrument for a number of years.
Musicians express themselves through their instruments. First class instruments mean that musicians can hone their expressive skills – the instrument responds sensitively to the finest impulses and, with the beauty of its tone, contributes to the richness of expression.
Through the Jan Wallander Prize we hope to give more young people the opportunity to use and make the most of a first class instrument for a number of years. The prize winner will be chosen by an international jury.
