Alpaca Ensemble derives from the piano trio Alpaca Trio, a versatile chamber group frequently collaborating with other musicians, artists and composers. They initiate innovative projects crossing and questioning boundaries between established genres, and have had numerous works written for them.
Alpaca Ensemble artistic management since its inception in 1996 has consisted of Else Bø, Sigrid Elisabeth Stang and Marianne Baudouin Lie. Our violinist Sigrid Stang died in the summer of 2024 after several years of illness. It is with great sadness that we continue the Alpaca Ensemble without Sigrid. At the same time, we are grateful for all the years we have gained together, for the close friendship, for the music, and for the Alpaca Ensemble, which has been invaluable to all three of us from our youth until now.
Sigrid Elisabeth Stang, violin, studied with Bjarne Fiskum and Levon Chilingirian at the Music Concervatory in Trondheim (now NTNU), Norway, and later with Dona Lee Croft at the Royal College of Music, London, where she was awarded Distinction on her solo-/ensemble recitalist diploma. She has participated on masterclasses with Lorand Fenyves, Eugene Sarbu, Hugh Bean, Sergei Fatkouline and Leo Philips. She has appeared as soloist with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, as well as several chamber orchestras, such as the Trondheim Soloists and Midt-norsk Solistensemble. She won the “Best Performance” and the “Best Bach Performance” at the Ealing Music Festival i 1998, and “The Leonard Friedman Violin Award” at the Mendelssohn on Mull festival in 2000. Between 1999-2001 she worked as student assistant at the Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.
Since 2001, Sigrid has been based in Trondheim, Norway, working with Orquestra do Norte (Portugal), the Trøndelag Theatre, Ensemble NOOR, Camerata Nordica, Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, as well as most of the Norwegian symphony orchestras. She also is co-founder and -organiser, as well as a player, of Eisler Ensemble and Alpaca Ensemble, doing concerts, tours, artist collaborations, commissions and CD productions.
Since 2010, Sigrid has held a full time position as violinist in the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and the Trondheim Soloists.
Marianne Baudouin Lie, cello
Else Bø, piano