Ingfrid Breie Nyhus / Piano

Norwegian pianist Ingfrid Breie Nyhus plays and creates music across contemporary / improvised / folk / classical music

 

post [at] breienyhus.no
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New albums:

DEMANTEN
Live Maria Roggen & Ingfrid Breie Nyhus
Roggen/Nyhus variants of Sibelius' songs https://orcd.co/2ryqxy2

SLÅTTEPIANO II

https://orcd.co/pow7wzp
Forspill + Rammepiano I, II, III: new piano music based on Setesdal traditions
- LP orders at www.bigdipper.no


KLØSTERKORALER, feat.Terje Isungset Based on concert recordings in Geilo Kulturkyrkje, improvisations on religious folk songs https://orcd.co/gv8684g

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Calendar

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2022

May 25,
AngelicA festival Bologna - Slåttepiano - shared concert with Benedicte Maurseth, Harr

June 29,
Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Slåttepiano

June 30-Jul 2,
Båstad Chamber Music Festival - concerts with Lena Willemark and shared concert with Christian Ihle Hadland

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Previous events:

April 28, Oslo Sinfonietta in Dublin, Jennifer Walshe

April 23, Riksscenen - Sven Nyhus 90 år

April 20, Friscena Gjøvik, NyMusikk Innlandet - with Live Maria Roggen

March 14-17 Recording, Simax - trio with Unni Løvlid & Anne Hytta

Jan 31, Stormen kulturhus, NyMusikk Bodø - Slåttepiano/Rammepiano

Jan 29-30, Nordlysfestivalen, Tromsø - with Sander Tingstad & Mads Erik Odde

2021

Dec 9
Kløsterkoraler album release
Alternative Christmas music, based on live concert recordings from Geilo Kulturkyrkje Dec 2020.
Ingfrid Breie Nyhus on piano, organ, celesta, inside-strings. Feat. Terje Isungset, percussion.

18 Nov
Valdresmusea
Slåttepiano II solo concert

7-8 Oct
Gudbrandsdal Musikkfest

17 Sep
Riksscenen
w/Groupa

17 Sep
Riksscenen/Ultima
Album release
Solo concert
Slåttepiano II

12 Sep
Lillehammer kirke
w/Sander Tingstad & Mads Erik Odde

11 Sep
Cafeteatret, Oslo
w/Sander Tingstad & Mads Erik Odde

14 July
Jørn Hilme/Aurdal kirke
w/Anne Hytta & Unni Løvlid

April
Recording Slåttepiano II

2020

Dec
Kløsterkoraler
7 live stream concerts:
29.11, 6.12, 13.12, 20.12 Sentralen
25.12, 26.12 Geilo Kulturkyrkje
27.12 Geilo Kulturkyrkje with Terje Isungset

Oct

Avstandsriss Setesdal, Levinsalen Oslo

Aug

Unromantic Sibelius. Album recording with Live Maria Roggen

Most 2020 concerts were cancelled/postponed due to covid-19

Febr

Folksongs of 66 with Unni Løvlid,
HLsenteret Oslo

2019

November

Periferien, Sentralen
World premiere:
Dæhlin and Nyhus: Avstandsriss Setesdal

August

Oslo Philharmonic Chamber Series at Munch Museum, Bacewicz Piano Quintet

July

Agder Folk Music Archive

May

*Sibelius og poetene. With Live Maria Roggen, vocal. New versions of Sibelius lieder.

April

*Soddjazz. Concert shared with Nils Henrik Asheim and Ståle Storløkken.

*Kristiansund kirke, kunst og kulturfestival. Concert tour with Nyresa (folk-baroque)

2018

October

*Donaueschinger Musiktage (DE) (A. Zubel Chamber Piano Concerto w/ Cikada)

*Umeå Jazzfestival (SE) (Slåttepiano)

August
*Recital, Troldhaugen: op 66 with Unni Løvlid

*Pianist of the week, Troldhaugen

July

*Our Festival/Meidään Festivali, Tuusula Finland (Slåttepiano, Sibelius, Saint-Saens)

*Groupa / Guro Kvifte Nesheim, Musik i Syd Sweden

*Performance Studies Network Conference Oslo, Keynote Performance (Slåttepiano)

May

*Grieg minutt for minutt (Grieg op.66 Troldhaugen/NRK)

*Byscena Gjøvik (Grieg/Solberg/Slåttepiano)

*Ringebu kirke (Grieg/Solberg/Slåttepiano)

April

*Lillehammer (Grieg/ao)

*Vreng, USF/NyMusikk Bergen (Slåttepiano)

March

*Disputas/Viva voce, Norwegian Academy of Music

*Fjell kirke (Grieg/Solberg/ao)

*Nasjonalbiblioteket Oslo (Grieg/Solberg/ao)

*Recording with Norwegian Radio Orchestra (Iberg)

Febr

*Klubb Krinolin Malmö (Grieg)

*Ringsaker kirke (Grieg)

*Bidrobon Oslo (Sciarrino/Messiaen)

*Kalkmølla kulturstasjon (Sciarrino/Messiaen)

2017

Nov

*Jakob Kulturkirke (Iberg)

*Toneheim (Messiaen)

*Recording/concert Store studio/Jar kirke, Ensemble Ernst (Berstad/Smørdal/Ivkovic)

Oct

*Den norske musikkfest, Sentralen (Grieg)

Sept

*Nordic Music Festival, Stadthalle Gifhorn DE (Slåttepiano)

*Nordic Music Festival, Theater am Spittelberg, Wien AU (Slåttepiano)

Aug

*Cafe de concert (Kruse)

Jul

*Førde International Folk Music Festival(Slåttepiano & Knut Buen)

Jun

*Hardanger musikkfest: -Hardangerhallen (Grieg & Thoresen)

*Ullensvang kyrkje & Odda kyrkje, (Slåttepiano + div music with Tora Augestad, Stian Carstensen, Sigbjørn Apeland)

*Galleriet Eidfjord & Skrivargarden Ullensvang (Slåttepiano & Frank Rolland)

May

*Troldhaugen Villa, Bergen Int Festival (Slåttepiano)

*Universitetsaulaen, Bergen Int Festival (Slåttepiano)

*Bad Oldesloe DE, Folk Baltica Festival (Slåttepiano)

*Schackenborg Slot, Tønder DK, Folk Baltica Festival (Slåttepiano)

*Museumsberg Flensburg DE, Folk Baltica Festival (Slåttepiano)

Apr

*Asker Kulturhus (Slåttepiano)

Mar

*Vinterfestspill i Bergstaden /The Røros Winter Festival, Artistic Director.
>Programme
(playing Sørensen, Sibelius, Svendsen, Slåttepiano, div folk music with Garth Knox, Frode Haltli, Håkon Thelin, Unni Løvlid, Nils Henrik Asheim & Olav Mjelva)

Jan

*Nordic Music Festival, Bietigheim-Bissingen DE (Slåttepiano)

2016

Nov

*CD release Portrait with hidden face(chamber music by Bjørn Kruse)

*Salongen, Sentralen (Thoresen)

Sept

*Villa Grande Bygdøy (Iberg & Messiaen)

*Avgarde series for new music, Tårnsalen Bergen, (Schaathun & Torvund)

*Punktfestivalen (Slåttepiano)

Aug

*Oslo Chamber Music Festival, Riksccenen Oslo (Slåttepiano)

July

*Performance Studies Network Conference Bath GB, presentation

June

*Oslo Philharmonic Summer Concert Freiasalen (Slåttepiano)

*Universitetetets Aula (Grieg)

Apr

*Lillenorge Festival, Kesselhaus Kulturbrauerei Berlin DE (Slåttepiano, Schaathun, Thoresen & div with Camilla Kjøll, Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang, Audun Kleive)

Mar

*Schaathun "Nations" Piano Concerto world premiere, with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra & Christian Eggen

*Vinterfestspill i Bergstaden / The Røros Winter Music Festival, Artistic Director.
>Programme
(playing Hovhaness Piano Concerto with Trondheim Soloists, Sibelius songs with Live Maria Roggen, and more)

“This is music born of the soil with a vision beyond the horizons”
Fiona Talkington, Songlines

“Minimalist and hypnotic”
Piano International

“You have to hear this! Ms. Nyhus is a phenomenon!”
Gapplegate Review

“A virtuoso of timbre”
Morgenbladet

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Artistic Research:

PhD in Artistic Research 2011-2016:"A Play with Traditions - interpreting and performing between folk and pianism" Link to reflection on Research Catalogue

2021-2024: Artistic Research project (Un)Romantic / Improvising interpretation
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