Tuva Halse | |
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 Tuva Halse at Jazztopad Festival, Wrocław (2023) | |
| Born | August 9, 1999 Molde |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Education | Conservatory of Music in Trondheim |
| Style | Jazz, Improvised music |
| Website | www.tuvahalse.com |
Tuva Halse (born 1999 in Molde, Norway) [1] is an instrumentalist, composer, and arranger known for her lyrical jazz improvisations on violin, her refined melodic compositions, and as a founding member of the Fjordgata Records label.
Tuva Karen Halse was born in Molde in 1999. She studies at the Bekkevoll Junior High School, then enters the Molde High School, where she attends the music programme. She turns to jazz violin when Arne Torvik , her piano teacher since the age of 13, introduces her to jazz, suggests her to use violin for this, and attracts her attention to the music of Mathias Eick. [2] Listening to Ola Kvernberg at Moldejazz in 2016 is also a decisive experience which initiates her interest in jazz music, [3] showing the diversity of ways a violin can be used. [4] [5] One of her first experience with a jazz orchestra is with the Lærlingan, a big band of Molde high school students led by Rolf Magnus Orø with which she plays for instance at Moldejazz in 2017. [6] Halse claims a musical lineage with Adam Bałdych, and cites him as the musician who ultimately motivated her to become the musician who she is. [5] Halse cites Chet Baker, Kenny Wheeler, Pat Metheny, Ola Kvernberg and Arne Torvik as other influences. [7] She defines herself as a melancholic musician [2] playing "mountain jazz", [5] and says that she "feels at home" [2] in the sound of the complex Nordic jazz [8] idiom.
Tuva Halse enters the Jazzlinja , a jazz training of the Conservatory in Trondheim at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2019, where she meets many of the musicians she will work with in the next several years, and graduates in 2022. [9] At the Jazzlinja, Halse is part of the Magellan band, which tours in Norway in 2021 with the suite In Search Of. [3] [10] Her sound bears a strong classical music imprint, [2] and is described by Tor Hammerø as having a light, bright, and highly transparent tone. [11] Her improvisations are often described as lyrical and focus a lot of energy. Torkjell Hovland writes that she "creates spaces in the music" and "is concerned with the energy in pauses between the notes as much as the notes themselves". [12] Halse is a multifarious artist who now pursues a career as an improviser, composer, arranger, band leader, sometimes as a soloist; she has been invited or selected to participate in a large number of groups in the fields of jazz, folk, pop, rap and contemporary music.
She simultaneously develops her own projects: the Bento Box Trio, the Tuva Halse Quintet, and the tuvahalseband, and contributes to many others on the Norwegian scene, such as the Miriam Kibakaya Concept, [13] Leon Røsten, [14] Melting Pot, [15] and OJKOS. [16] She occasionally plays solo concerts [17] and duets (with Mathias Eick, [18] [19] Tord Gustavsen, [18] [19] Peter Knudsen and Arne Torvik ). In 2024 she tours with the quartet of Sverre Gjørvad and Ensemble Noor [20] and a formation merging the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and I LIKE TO SLEEP. [21] The creation of the Reconnection suite for the OJKOS jazz ensemble at the National Jazz Scene in November 2024 firmly establishes Tuva Halse as a leading jazz composer and arranger for large ensembles. [22]
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