Ingfrid Breie Nyhus

Norway °1978
affiliation: Norwegian Academy of Music
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Ingfrid Breie Nyhus (b 1978) performs folk music, classical and contemporary music at the piano.

She grew up in a folk music family, and made classical piano soloist studies in Norway, Finland and Germany. She has since worked with classical and contemporary solo and chamber music, with several commissions and cooperations with composers, and with creating her own piano music based on folk musical sources. She has received several prizes for her performances and recordings, such as The Norwegian Soloist Prize. The recording ‘Grieg Peasant Dances op.72’ was nominated for the Norwegian Grammy Spellemannprisen and awarded “Record of the Year” by the Great Britain Grieg Society in 2007. The album “Hardanger Fiddle in Art Music” was nominated for the Norwegian Grammy 2016, and the album “Slåttepiano” was nominated for the Norwegian folk music award Folkelarmprisen 2016. She regularly performs at contemporary, folk, jazz and classical festivals and venues internationally. 

research

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  • Overview of the music in 'A Play with Traditions' (last edited: 2021) author(s): Ingfrid Breie Nyhus This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    'A Play with Traditions' / 'Tradisjoner på spill' has been an artistic research project by pianist Ingfrid Breie Nyhus. This exposition shows an overview of the musical outcome of the fellowship. The reflection text is presented in another exposition in RC, called 'Tradisjoner på spill': https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/385124/385125.
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  • Tradisjoner på spill - Refleksjon (2019) author(s): Ingfrid Breie Nyhus published in: Norwegian Academy of Music
    «Tradisjoner på spill, fortolkning og utøving mellom slåtter og pianisme», er et kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid gjort av pianist Ingfrid Breie Nyhus. Hun er en utøver som står mellom to utøvertradisjoner; klassisk fortolkning og norsk folkemusikktradering. I dette stipendiatprosjektet har hun undersøkt musikalske muligheter i spenningsfeltet mellom kunstmusikk og folkemusikk, sett på likheter og ulikheter ved tradisjonene, og latt dem flettes sammen i sitt spill. Tilsvarende har hun undersøkt musikalske muligheter i dette spenningsfeltet, i samarbeid med et utvalg samtidskomponister om nye klaververker inspirert av norsk folkemusikk.
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  • A Play With Traditions (last edited: 2022) author(s): Ingfrid Breie Nyhus This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    "A Play with Traditions - interpreting and performing between folk and pianism" is an artistic research doctorate project by pianist Ingfrid Breie Nyhus, at the Norwegian Programme of Artistic Research & the Norwegian Academy of Music 2011-2016. Ingfrid Breie Nyhus is a performer within classical and contemporary interpretation and folk musical tradition. In this project, she explored musical possibilities in the tension field between art music's and folk music's performance traditions. She investigated similarities and differences in the traditions, and let them intertwine in her piano playing. This exposition is the reflection of the project, on artistic processes, contexts and considerations.
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  • Tradering, oppløsing (2022) author(s): Ingfrid Breie Nyhus published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
    TRADITIONING, DISSOLVING: What does 'traditioning' mean, what can the 'traditioned' become? On exploring rules and possible spaces in tradition and creation. To Ingfrid Breie Nyhus, the apparently impossible combination of folk music and grand piano, is a creatively generative musical situation. The rules of the 'slått' tradition are transposed to a new space in the grand piano, and the rules of the grand piano are destabilized in the meeting with the 'slått'. This exposition unfolds questions, reflections and new questions, from a longer process with the music "Slåttepiano".
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  • (un)Romantic / Improvising Interpretation - Project page (last edited: 2023) author(s): Ingfrid Breie Nyhus, Live Maria Roggen This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    "(u)Romantisk / Improviserende interpretasjon" - "(un)Romantic / Improvising Interpretation" is an artistic research project 2021-2024 funded by The Norwegian Programme for Artistic Research and the Norwegian Academy of Music, and led by the duo Live Maria Roggen (vocal) and Ingfrid Breie Nyhus (piano).
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