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

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

As a chamber musician, she has performed with Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, NEXUS Chamber Music Chicago and attended festivals such as Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Festival Mozaic, Tallgrass Chamber Music Festival, Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove, Taos School of Music, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School and Festival, Thy Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and School and Sarasota Music 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.

Rannveig is an avid performer of contemporary music. As a member of Duo Freyja, she has released two albums of Icelandic duos for violin and viola, commissioned and premiered by the duo. The first album contains six works by six Icelandic women and the second contains four works by Icelandic composers. Rannveig also commissioned a piece for solo violin “Latency Denouement” by Iván Enrique Rodríguez, which she premiered in Harpa Concert Hall in 2022.

Rannveig held a one-year contract with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in 2024-2025 and has performed regularly as a substitute with the Chicago, Milwaukee and Iceland Symphony orchestras and the Buffalo Philharmonic among others. She has been concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, Peoria Symphony, Civic Orchestra of Chicago and Moritzburg Festival Orchestra among others and served as 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 and now maintains a private violin studio. She is a regular guest artist at Missouri State University as part of a week-long residency with NEXUS Chamber Music Chicago, teaching lessons, masterclasses, collaborating with student composers and performing chamber music with the faculty. She is passionate about community engagement and regularly performs concerts in prisons and hospitals for the non-profit “Project: Music Heals Us.” She participated in Juilliard’s Gluck Community Service Fellowship for 2 years.

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.