Ingfrid Breie Nyhus / Piano

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Slåttepiano reviews

"Puzzling folk playing - intimate and honest"
Aftenposten

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

"Rhythm and ornament are made as closely to the hardingfiddle as I never heard on the piano before"
Dag og Tid

"In an intimate and beautifully embellished musical universe, the small world of old slåtts where it all began, is widened"
Lira Musikmagasin

"Humbly attentive and boldy innovative"
Morgenbladet

Artistic research

Tradisjoner på spill /
A Play with Traditions
Refleksjon (norsk):
Research Catalogue
Reflection in English coming soon

Solo album trilogy:

Slåttepiano
(Lablabel 2015)
Piano versions of traditional music by Ingfrid Breie Nyhus
www.slattepiano.com
Buy Slåttepiano CD here:
www.lawostore.no
iTunes/Spotify/Wimp-Tidal

Stille-stykkje
(Lablabel 2015)
Solo piano music by Olav Kielland (1951) and Erik Dæhlin (2015) www.stillestykkje.com

Abstraction in Folk Art
(Lablabel 2015)
Solo piano music by Øyvind Torvund (2014), Lasse Thoresen (1983) and Asbjørn Schaathun (2014). www.abstractioninfolkart.com

Upcoming events

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

05.07-08.07 Performance Studies Network Conference Oslo, Keynote Performance (Slåttepiano)

11.07 Groupa med IBN og Guro Kvifte Nesheim, Musik i Syd

20-28.07 Meidään Festivali (Slåttepiano, Sibelius, Saint-Saens)

30.07 Ringebu kirke (Mozart mm)

05.08 Recital, Troldhaugen (op 66 with Unni Løvlid ++)

06-12.08 Pianist of the week, Troldhaugen

12.10 Umeå Jazzfestival (Slåttepiano)

More dates TBA

Previous events
2018
May
*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)
Okt
*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)

Norwegian pianist playing folk music, classical music and contemporary music

Contact

Ingfrid Breie Nyhus
+47 93 22 28 51
post#breienyhus.no
facebook.com/ingfrid.nyhus

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