The violinist Inga Våga Gaustad is a dedicated chamber musician based in Copenhagen and the Hague and has since 2020 been the primarius of the award-winning Dutch string quartet Animato Kwartet.

Born in Kirkenes in Norway in 1998, she started the violin aged seven in her hometown Nesodden. As a student at Barratt Due Institute of Music, Oslo, she studied under Eileen Siegel, Geir Inge Lotsberg and Henning Kraggerud.
In July 2022 she finished her bachelor's degree at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ Berlin under Prof. Kolja Blacher and Ning Feng, and begun her master’s degree at the HKB in Bern with Corina Belcea in September 2022. In 2023 she continued her studies in Copenhagen, where she is currently enrolled, with Peter Herresthal.

At age 17, Inga reached the final of the Norwegian Broadcasting Company’s ‘Virtuoso’ competition, where she performed with the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra among others.

In 2023 the Animato Kwartet was awarded the prestigious Kersjesprijs, a cash prize of €50.000 for career development. Inga plays a Tommasso Eberle built in Naples in 1776 on generous loan from Dextra Musica.