From the age of ten, Frida Fredrikke studied at the Barratt Due Institute of Music, where she studied cello under Professor Aage Kvalbein. Later she started at the Norwegian School of Music, where she studied under Professor Truls Mørk. For many years she studied at the Royal College of Music under Professor Frans Helmerson and Professor Torleif Thedéen at Edsberg Castle. From the age of 11, she has received numerous international and national awards and scholarships, such as the Young Musician in Tallinn, the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition in Poreč, the Arve Tellefsen Talent Award to a young performer from Vestfold in 2005, the RWE Dea Music Scholarship in 2010 and the Wessel Prize from the Norwegian Society in 2015. She has noted herself as a soloist with several orchestras at home and abroad, for example with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Kaunas Philharmonic and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Together with pianist Ingrid Andsnes was nominated for the Spellemannprisen 2018 in the class classic for the album Metamorfose. Wærvågen has worked as a solo cellist in the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra in Stockholm and is now a freelance cellist based in Oslo with many engagements as a solo cellist with orchestras and as a chamber musician. She is also section leader in the string orchestra Ensemble Allegria. She plays a cello created by Nicolas Lupot (1823).