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Tuva Halse

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 Halse
Tuva Halse at Jazztopad Festival, Wrocław (2023)
BornAugust 9, 1999
Molde
NationalityNorwegian
EducationConservatory of Music in Trondheim
StyleJazz, Improvised music
Websitewww.tuvahalse.com

Biography

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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 [no], 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 [no] 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.

Career

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Tuva Halse enters the Jazzlinja [no], 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, 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 [sv] and Arne Torvik [no]). 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]

Fjordgata Records

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Tuva Halse is one of the founding members of Fjordgata Records, an independent music label born in 2021.

Discography

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As a leader
  • Boxed, Bento Box Trio, Fjordgata Records (2022)
  • Two, Tuva Halse Quintet, Jazzland Recordings (2023)
  • nemesis/cruel, tuvahalseband, Fjordgata Records (2024)
  • Somehow I Lost My Way, Bento Box Trio, Fjordgata Records (2024)
As a co-leader
  • Demring - November - I Puste (Singles) Duets with Ingrid Vingen Sunde (2018)
As a group member
  • Roots, Miriam Kibakaya Concept, Jazzland Recordings (2023)
As a sidemusician
  • Information Therapy, Jonas Ledang, Øra Fonogram (2020)
  • Sara Fjeldvær, Sara Fjeldvær, Fjordgata Records (2021)
  • The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Jonas Ledang, Øra Fonogram (2022)
  • We Don't Imagine Anymore, Vestemøy Narvesen, Jazzland Recordings (2023)
  • I Could Even Try To Change Your Mind, Leon Røsten, Spupz Night Crab Life (2023)
  • After The Rain, Mathias Angelhus, Øra Fonogram (2023)
  • Stars, Sara Fjeldvær, Fjordgata Records (2024)
  • Intergalloptic Roundtrip, PHØNIX, Sonic Transmissions Records (2024)
  • Hvor du kommer fra, Tobias Rønnevig, Boden Records (2024)

Documentary film

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  • TUVA, by Nadia Kukankova (2024): official selection of the Nordic/Docs Documentary Film Festival 2024[22]

Awards

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Talent prizes
Competitions

References

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  1. ^ Tuva Halse artist page at Discogs
  2. ^ a b c d Lever drømmen: – Mange i Molde har betydd mye for meg: Interview by Rigmor Sjaastad Hagen, Romsdals budstikke, December 11, 2023, 20―21.
  3. ^ a b Ukas jazzprofil: Tuva Halse Camilla Slaattun, Jazz i Norge, Ukas profil, 22 March 2021. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  4. ^ a b Tuva Halse får talentstipend i form av et godt betalt spilleoppdrag: Molde er en liten, men fantastisk kulturby (Tuva Halse receives a talent scholarship in the form of a well-paid gig: Molde is a small, but fantastic cultural city), Vera Henriksen, Romsdals Budstikke, July 9, 2019, p. 16―17.
  5. ^ a b c Interview by Karoline Ruderaas Jerve, Jazznytt 268, Fall 2023, 74.
  6. ^ Storhaug, Elias (2017-07-23). "Lærlingan og Gamlingan: lokaltalenter i særklasse". Fireflate (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  7. ^ Supertalent Tuva (22): Gir Molde æren. Ole Foss, Romsdal Budstikke, 2 November 2021.
  8. ^ Gagatsis, Alexander (2020-12-10). "Typologies of the North: Mediating 'Northerness' in Jazz in Scandinavia". Nordlit (46): 263–284. doi:10.7557/13.5454. ISSN 1503-2086.
  9. ^ "2022-06-02 Tuva Halse – NTNU Jazzlinja eksamensfestival, Dokkhuset". Thor Egil Leirtrø - Photo. 2022-06-02. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  10. ^ "Jazzlinja på turné". Jazz i Norge (in Norwegian Bokmål). 2021-03-10. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  11. ^ Hammerø, Tor (2023-10-22). "Tuva Halse Quintet". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  12. ^ Hovland, Torkjell (2023-10-17). "Musikk som klåre haustfargar, musikk som tvingar oss ut av det dølles tyranni • ballade.no". ballade.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  13. ^ https://www.jazzfest.no/en/arrangement/2021/miriam-kibakaya-concept, Miriam Kibakaya Concept], Jazzfest, Trondheim. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
  14. ^ https://jazzinorge.no/arrangement/leon-rosten-trio-med-tuva-halse-herman-wildhagen-oscar-andreas-haug/, Leon Røsten Trio med Tuva Halse/Herman Wildhagen/Oscar Andreas Haug], Jazz I Norge, 07-11-2023. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
  15. ^ Jazztopad Festival, Melting Pot Made in Wrocław 25.11.2023. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  16. ^ a b Generasjonsskifte i OJKOS – ti nye medlemmar, Østnorsk jazzsenter, Jazz I Norge, March 25, 2023. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  17. ^ TÓNLEIK JAZZFEST – ADHD, Tuva Halse, Johanna Reine-Nilsen, Jazz I Norge, 13-06-2024. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  18. ^ a b The #huninvesterer scholarship for Tuva Halse, Kongsberg Jazz Festival, 03-06 July 2024. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  19. ^ a b c Tuva Halse is this year's NTNU Ambassador, Jazzfest 2024, Trondheim. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  20. ^ Sverre Gjørvad kvartett med Ensemble Nord, Enjoy.ly. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  21. ^ "I Like To Sleep | Trondheim jazz orchestra". www.trondheimjazzorchestra.no. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  22. ^ Nadia Kukankova, TUVA, Nordic/Docs Documentary Film Festival 2024, Fredrikstad, 28 September 2024. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
  23. ^ Norsk kulturskoleråd, Møre og Romsdal, Årsmøte 2019, 14. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
  24. ^ Sparebanken Møre, Vinnere av TEFT-stipend 2022. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
  25. ^ Sparebanken SMN, innere av talentstipend 2022. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
  26. ^ Tuva fikk stipend på 100.000 kroner: – En stor ære, en enorm anerkjennelse. Mona Sandviken, Laagendalsposten, 2024-07-04.
  27. ^ Jazzintro 2022, published by Molde Jazz, 1 February 2022. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  28. ^ "Melting Pot Made in Wrocław". Narodowe Forum Muzyki. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  29. ^ Tuva Halse er arets NTNU ambassador. Christel Vindenes, NTNU News, May 8, 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-09.

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