Associate Professor Ingrid Wangsvik (1969-) grew up in Rælingen in Viken. As a 7-year-old, she started playing the piano with piano teacher Inger Marie Larsen, where she played actively for 13 years.
When she was 10 years old, she started in Fjerdingby school band in Rælingen, and was eventually given the clarinet as her instrument. As a 14-year-old, she began teaching others how to play the clarinet, and a few years later she also became a conductor. She was also a member of Rælingen Musikklag for many years. This is where she performed as a soloist for the first time.
She started her studies at Østlandets Musikkonservatorium with Tove Bratbak as her teacher. Here she completed both classroom pedagogy in music and instrumental pedagogical education.
The following 2 years were spent in the Netherlands, where she graduated from Professor Walter Boeykens, Nancy Braithwaite and Raymon Diles at the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music.
After graduating in 1995, she worked as a freelancer in the defense corps, i.a. 2 years in the Royal Norwegian Marines Music Corps in Horten. In 2001 she was employed by FMKS (Forsvarets Distriktsmusikkorps Sørlandet), and since 2003 has been employed as an Alternating Solo Clarinetist in Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra (KSO).
She has a special responsibility for Eb-clarinet, but she also plays the bass clarinet. Ingrid has participated in programming work in the orchestra for several years.
Wangsvik has played a lot of chamber music, in ensembles of different compositions, where she, among others, has performed Olivier Messian's "Quatour messiaen quatuor pour la fin du temps" with Atle Sponberg, Øyvind Gimse and Alex Taylor, as well as many concerts in Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra's chamber series.
Since 1998, she has taught clarinet methodology at UiA (then HiA), later also clarinet and chamber music.
Since 1999, she has been a judge in several music competitions, especially for the Norwegian Music Corps Association. In recent years, she has been a jury member at Dirigentløftet's big initiative "Opptakt" in collaboration with Talent Norway and all the country's symphony orchestras.