Øyvor Volle is concertmaster for the Göteborg Opera Orchestra and teaches violin and chamber music at the University of Gothenburg.
She received her first violin at the age of four, studied with Professor Leif Jørgensen from the age of eight and moved to Germany when she was 16. At only 18 years old, she was hired as concertmaster at the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, a position she held for five years.
In 1984, Øyvor Volle was one of the founders of the Vertavo Quartet, which has performed all over the world, including at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Wigmore Hall in London.
Øyvor Volle has received the Shell Prize, the Grieg Prize, the Klæstads Legate, the Nordea Prize and the Guide Vecchi Scholarship.