Tine Thing Helseth

Tine Thing Helseth
Thing Helseth in 2008
Thing Helseth in 2008
Background information
Born (1987-08-18) 18 August 1987 (age 37)
Oslo, Norway
GenresClassical
OccupationSoloist trumpeter
InstrumentTrumpets by Vincent Bach Corporation[1]
LabelsEMI Classics
Websitewww.tinethinghelseth.com

Tine Thing Helseth (/ˈtiːnə tɪŋ ˈhɛlsət/ TEE-nə ting HEL-sət; born 18 August 1987) is a Norwegian trumpet soloist specializing in classical repertoire.

Career

Helseth was born in Oslo. She started to play trumpet at the age of 7 in a school band and studied at the Barratt Due Institute of Music from 2002 to 2009 and at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 2009 to 2011. Her teachers have included Heidi Johanessen (Norwegian National Opera Orchestra) and, since 2002, Arnulf Naur Nilsen (Oslo Philharmonic).[2][3]

Helseth is the leader of an all female brass ensemble, tenThing.[4][better source needed]

In 2011, Helseth was named a "Superstar of Tomorrow" by BBC Music Magazine. The same year she signed a contract with EMI Classics.[2]

Concert and festival performances

Helseth has performed with orchestras including the Vienna Symphony, Beethoven Academie, Capella Cracoviensis, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra,[5] RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Camerata, Camerata Nordica, Württembergische Philharmonie [de], 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.[6]

In 2007 Helseth performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.

Helseth has also performed more than five times in the United States. In 2009, she performed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; in 2011, at Carnegie Hall in New York City and the Struthers Library Theatre in Warren, Pennsylvania; in 2014, at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas.[7] In 2019, she toured the United States with her all-female brass group, tenThing.

In 2012, she opened the memorial concert for the 2011 Norway attacks by playing trumpet from the roof of Oslo City Hall.[8]

In 2013 she appeared twice in the BBC Proms, performing with tenThing at the Cadogan Hall and also at the Royal Albert Hall.[9]

She performed at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in 2018,[10] and in 2024 gave a master class at the Australian National Academy of Music as well as playing Weinberg's Trumpet Concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.[1]

Releases

Helseth appeared 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, she released her debut album Storyteller on EMI Classics, as well as 10, the debut album of her brass ensemble, tenThing. Her album TINE, a personal selection of original and transcribed works, was released on 12 March 2013.

Prizes, contests and awards

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
  • 2022: Seraph

References

  1. ^ a b Tine Thing Helseth (May 2024). "Playing Up – The Trumpet". Limelight. p. 64. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  2. ^ a b Egil Arnt Gundersen: "Tine Thing Helseth", Great Norwegian Encyclopedia, retrieved 30 March 2013 (in Norwegian)
  3. ^ a b c d "About Tine Thing Helseth". myspace.com. Retrieved 19 December 2007.
  4. ^ "tenThing brass ensemble". www.tenthing.no. Retrieved 21 December 2007.
  5. ^ "Award Winning Trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra". www.norway.cn. Retrieved 20 December 2007.
  6. ^ a b "Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)". simax.no. Archived from the original on 20 January 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2007.
  7. ^ "Orchestra presents world-renowned trumpeter". Times Observer. Warren, Pennsylvania. 10 February 2011. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  8. ^ Hege Bakken Riise: "Dediserte låt til de pårørende" NRK, 22 July 2012
  9. ^ "BBC Proms".
  10. ^ Laura Biemmi (25 June 2018). "The young artists of chamber music: Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet". Cut Common. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Tine Thing Helseth appointed Statoil Artist". trumpetguild.org. Retrieved 19 December 2007.
  12. ^ "Tine Thing Helseth in Eurovision Young Musicians final". trumpetguild.org. Archived from the original on 20 January 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2007.
  13. ^ "Tine Thing Helseth | Warner Classics".
Awards
Preceded by Recipient of the Newcomer Spellemannprisen
2007 		Succeeded by