The highly acclaimed Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen started to play the violin at the tender age of three at the local music school, outside the city Hamar, Norway. The year after, she continued with legendary Norwegian violinist Arve Tellefsen in Oslo, with whom she played with for nearly ten years. Later, she studied several years at the Barratt Due Institute of Music, with Stephan Barratt Due . For the last ten years , Mari has been a student of the world-renowned Russian professor Zakhar Bron