Ingrid Søfteland Neset

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Ingrid Neset
Birth name Ingrid Søfteland Neset
Born 1992 (age 31–32)
Os, Hordaland
Origin Norway
Genres Classical music, jazz
Occupation(s) Musician
Instruments Flute, piccolo flute, clarinet, piano

Ingrid Søfteland Neset (born 1992 in Os, Hordaland) is an award winning Norwegian Classical flautist living in Copenhagen. She is the daughter of music teachers guitarist Terje Neset (b. 1959) and pianist Anne Leni Søfteland Sæbø (b. 1961), and the sister of the vocalist Anna Søfteland Neset (b. 1987) and jazz saxophonist Marius Søfteland Neset (b. 1985).[1] She is known from nomerous performances with orchestras like Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and in concerts and cordings (Birds 2013) with her older brother Marius Neset.[2]

Career

Neset picked up the flute at the age of ten and attended the Music program at Langhaugen vgs. (2008–10). She is a part of the talented class "Unge Musikere", of the Griegakademiet, where she has been under guidance of flautist and professor Gro Sandvik, she has attended master classes with some of the leading flutists in the world, like Sharon Bezaly, Ian Clarke, Wissam Boustany, in the summer of 2009 she was invited to join in a flute workshop in Weggis, Switzerland directed by the renowned flautist and flute teacher James Galway, and is currently studying music on the bachelor's program at the Copenhagen Rhythmic Music Conservatory (2010–13).[3][4]

Neset gave five concerts with the trio 'Jenter fra Bergen' at the 'Fartein Valen Festival' in 2009, played with the Young Symphony Orchestra at the Bergen International Festival, and performed for the Norwegian Royals when they wisited Austevoll the same year.[3] In 2013 she first participated on her brothers album Birds with festival appearances on such as Vossajazz,[5] and there after on the album Escapism (2013) Neset collaborated with the Danish artist Fallulah (Maria Apetri), with appearance on the Isle of Wight Festival in England.[6]

Honors

  • 2009: Musician of the Year at the Norwegian Young Musician Competition in Oslo
  • 2009: Drømmestipendet[7]
  • 2011: The Partas Culture Scholarships[8]
  • 2013: Young Star Prize awarded by Statkraft at 'Hardanger Musikkfest'[9][10]
  • 2015: Winner of this years soloist competition awarded by The Royal Danish Academy of Music[11]

Discography

With Marius Neset
With Fallulah

References

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