Icelandic-Slovenian violinist, Rannveig Marta Sarc, has performed throughout Asia, North-America and Europe and is currently based in New York City where she enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher.

Rannveig has appeared as soloist with the Iceland Symphony, Slovene Philharmonic, Iceland Youth Symphony, Orchestra Matutina, “Mihail Jora” Philharmonic and Reykjavik College of Music orchestras, among others.

As a chamber musician, Rannveig has performed with Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, NEXUS Chamber Music Chicago and attended festivals such as Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove, Thy Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, Aspen Music Festival and School, Sarasota Music Festival and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School and Festival. She has collaborated with artists such as Natasha Brofsky, Catherine Cho, Timothy Eddy, Frans Helmerson, Thomas Riebl, Laurie Smukler and performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall.

Rannveig is a recipient of numerous awards, including the 2022 Luminarts Classical Strings Fellowship, first prize at the 2021 Musicians Club of Women Scholarship Award, the Rotary Scholarship, American Scandinavian Society Cultural Grant and was selected as “Newcomer of the year” at the 2022 Icelandic Music Awards.

An avid performer of contemporary music, Rannveig is a member of Duo Freyja and released an album under the same name with six duos for violin and viola by six Icelandic women, which were commissioned and premiered by the duo. Rannveig also commissioned a piece for solo violin “Latency Denouement” by Iván Enrique Rodríguez, which she premiered in Harpa Concert Hall in 2022.

Rannveig regularly performs as a substitute violinist in orchestras such as the Chicago, Milwaukee and Iceland Symphony orchestras as well as the Buffalo Philharmonic and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. She has been concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago and Moritzburg Festival Orchestra among others and served as a substitute 3rd concertmaster of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra from September-December of 2023.

While residing in Chicago, Rannveig was faculty at Merit School of Music. Now she maintains a private violin studio in NYC. She is passionate about community engagement and for 2 years, she participated in Juilliard’s Gluck Community Service Fellowship and now frequently performs concerts for the non-profit “Project: Music Heals Us.”

Rannveig holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where she was a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. Her teachers include Catherine Cho, Laurie Smukler, Donald Weilerstein and Robert Mealy on baroque violin.