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Ashild Nyhus Edit Profile

musician

Åshild Breie Nyhus is a Norwegian musician who plays folk music and classical music, the daughter of fiddler Sven Nyhus and the older sister of pianist Ingfrid Breie Nyhus.

Background

She is the daughter of folk musician Sven Nyhus and since the middle of the 1990s, was a member of his folk music orchestra, Sven Nyhus sekstett.

Education

Nyhus graduated from the Barratt Due Institute of Music and Norwegian Academy of Music.

Career

From 1999, she was part of the Oslo-Filharmonien, first as first violinist, and later as third violaist. She later played in the Det Norske Kammerorkester. As a folk musician, she was soloist on Hardanger fiddle and nyckelharpa, with the Oslo-Filharmonien, Det Norske Kammerorkester, Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, among others

2008: Grieg Society Award.

Achievements

  • 2008: Grieg Society Award.