Cecilie Løken Hesselberg studied at Norges Musikkhøgskole and The Royal Academy of Music in London.Her soloist debut was in Zurich in 1994 with Mariss Jansons, and the year before shew on the Princess Astrid Music Competition.Cecilie has played as a principal flutist with many top orchestras in the world, for instance the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Theatre de la Monnaie and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Several big newspapers has given her great reviews, for instance The Times, Die Zeit, Zurcher Neue Zeitung and Svenska Dagbladet. The composer John Adams once said about Cecilie: “There is hope for classical music” after the concert with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. She has played at the world’s most prestigious stages such as Carnegie Hall, Musikverein in Vienna, Berlin Philharmonie and Royal Albert Hall. In 2009 she was chosen by maestro Valery Gergiev to be a member of the World Orchestra for Peace, and therefore an UNESCO artist. She was nominated a Norwegian Grammy for Classical Album of the Year in 2016 with chamber music by David Monrad Johansen. Cecilie has been a flute professor at several music colleges since 2002 and she has given masterclasses in Europe and Asia. In 2016 Cecilie received the Aurora Music Award for her tireless volunteer work for refugees in Greece. In her spare time, Cecilie loves to play tennis with her son, barbecuing freshly caught fish at the beach and playing tunes on the piano on late nights.