Tine Thing Helseth ( ; ; born 18 August 1987) is a
Norwegian
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trumpet
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soloist specializing in classical repertoire.
Career
Helseth was born in
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...
. She started to play trumpet at the age of 7 in a
school band
A school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conductors (band directors). A school band consists of woodwind instruments, brass ...
and studied at the
Barratt Due Institute of Music from 2002 to 2009 and at the
Norwegian Academy of Music
The Norwegian Academy of Music (Norwegian: ''Norges musikkhøgskole'', NMH) is a university-level music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the ...
from 2009 to 2011. Her teachers have included Heidi Johanessen (Norwegian National Opera Orchestra) and since 2002 Arnulf Naur Nilsen (
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra).
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Tine Thing Helseth
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Helseth is the leader of an all female brass ensemble, tenThing.
In 2011, Helseth was named a "Superstar of Tomorrow" by ''
BBC Music Magazine''. The same year she signed a contract with
EMI Classics
EMI Classics was a record label founded by Thorn EMI in 1990 to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogues for internationally distributed classical music releases. After Thorn EMI demerged in 1996, its recorded mus ...
.
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Concert and festival performances
Helseth has performed with orchestras including the Wiener Symphoniker
The Vienna Symphony (Vienna Symphony Orchestra, german: Wiener Symphoniker) is an Austrian orchestra based in Vienna. Its primary concert venue is the Vienna Konzerthaus. In Vienna, the orchestra also performs at the Musikverein and at the The ...
, Beethoven Academie, Capella Cracoviensis, The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Slovenian Radio Symphony Ljubljana, Oslo Camerata, Camerata Nordica, Württemberg Philharmonic, the Trondheim Soloists, Norwegian symphony orchestras, Norwegian Army bands and other brass and wind ensembles.
She has appeared at music festivals including Bergen International Festival, Kissinger Summer Festival and Usedomer Music Festival.Nobel Peace Prize Concert
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.
Helseth has also performed more than five times in the United States
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so far. The first time was on 13 December 2009 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She then performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City
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on 18 February 2011, and the Struthers Library Theatre in Warren, Pennsylvania
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on 20 February 2011. Her most recent solo performance in the United States took place on 23–25 May 2014 at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. Accord ...
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In April 2019 she toured the US for two weeks with her all-female brass group - tenTHING and among other locations they performed at the Empire Theatre in San Antonio, Texas on 4 April 2019.
In 2012, she opened the memorial concert for the 2011 Norway attacks
The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July ( no, 22. juli) or as 22/7, were two domestic terrorist attacks by neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF) ...
by playing trumpet from the roof of Oslo City Hall.
In 2013 she appeared twice in the BBC Proms
The BBC Proms or Proms, formally named the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hal ...
, performing with tenThing at the Cadogan Hall and also at the Royal Albert Hall.
Releases
She appears on Didrik Solli-Tangen's second single Best Kept Secret, taken from Solli-Tangen's debut album Guilty Pleasures, which was released on 3 September 2010.
In 2012, Tine released her debut album ''Storyteller'' as well as the debut album of her brass ensemble ''tenThing'', called ''10'', on EMI Classics. Her newest CD ''TINE'', a personal selection of original and transcribed works, was released on 12 March 2013.
Prizes, contests and awards
*National Soloist Championship of Norway no-age-limit open class 1st Prize 2004 [
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*International Trumpet competition "Théo Charlier
Theophile Noel Charlier (17 July 1868 – 9 October 1944), more commonly known as Théo Charlier, was a Belgian trumpeter, composer, and teacher. He was notable for preferring the trumpet during a period when the cornet was more popular.
Career
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" Brussels, Belgium 2nd prize 2005 [
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* Luitpold Prize of the festival Kissinger Sommer
The Kissinger Sommer is a classical music festival held every year in the summer in the city of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Southern Germany.
History
The festival was founded in 1986. At the beginning the focus of the festival was on the improve ...
, 2007Spellemannprisen
Spellemannprisen, often referred to as the Norwegian Grammy Awards in English, is a Norwegian music award presented to Norwegian musicians. The award was established by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), an organizat ...
for best newcomer, 2007
* Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, 2009
Discography
*2007: ''Trumpet Concertos, Haydn, Albinoni, Neruda, Hummel'' - with Det Norske Kammerorkester
*2009: ''Mitt Hjerte Alltid Vanker'' (''My Heart Is Ever Present'')
*2011: ''Storyteller''
*2012: ''10'' - with tenThing
*2013: ''Tine''
*2017: ''Never Going Back''
*2021: ''Magical Memories''
References
External links
*
Haydn Concerto 3rd mvt on YouTube
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1987 births
Living people
Norwegian classical musicians
Norwegian trumpeters
Musicians from Oslo
Eurovision Young Musicians Finalists
Spellemannprisen winners
Barratt Due Institute of Music alumni
21st-century trumpeters
21st-century women musicians
21st-century Norwegian musicians
Women trumpeters