Anne Hytta (born 14 September 1974 in

Sauland Sauland is a village (parish) and the administrative center in Hjartdal municipality in Telemark county. The population is above 800 people in 2016, which equates over half of all households in the whole municipality. The village is placed in the ...

, Norway) is a Norwegian traditional

folk musician Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has be ...

playing the Hardingfele.

Biography

Hytta has been training hardingfele with Einar Løndal (1914–2005) and

Knut Buen Knut Buen (born 31 October 1948) is a Norwegian fiddler, composer, folklorist and publisher. He was born in Kongsberg; the son of folk musician Anders Buen and Margit Tjønn, and is brother of Hauk Buen, Agnes Buen Garnås and the artist Kari Bue ...

(b. 1948) among others. She writes and arranges new music at the intersection of Traditional folk music,

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and other modal traditional folk music traditions. Her main project next to playing solo fiddle is in the trio Slagr, initiated by Hytta in 2003. The trio has written and performed two commissioned works, the last, straum, stille (stream, silent), was performed at the Osa Festival in 2008. Their debut album ''Solaris'', was released in 2007, and the second album Straum, Stille in 2011. Slagr received ensemble support from the

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(Arts Council Norway). Hytta is an experienced performer in international tradition music projects, and has worked with traditional musicians from

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, Sverige, Frankrike,

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, and Brasil among others. The interest in modal traditional music opened for a scholarship from the Fond for utøvende kunstnere (Fund for performing artists) to study with Ross Daly, a musician and music theorist living in

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. She plays medieval string instruments in the medieval music ensemble Kalenda Maya. Together with Synnøve S. Bjørset and Åse Teigland she has prepared a consert for three hardingfele soloists, ''Dei beste damene''.

Discography

Solo albums

* 2006: ''Dag, Kveld, Natt'' (ta:lik - TA30CD) * 2014: ''Draumsyn''(Carpe Diem) *

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: ''Strimur'' (ta:lik - TA167CD)

Collaborations

; With Slagr * 2007: ''Solaris'' ( NorCD - NORCD 0771) * 2011: ''Straum, Stille'' (Ozella - OZ 033 CD) * 2012: ''Softspeaker'' (Atterklang - AKLANG305), with

Andreas Ulvo Andreas Ulvo (born 22 July 1983 in Kongsvinger, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, organist, keyboardist and composer, known from cooperations with Shining, Ingrid Olava, Mathias Eick Quartet, Solveig Slettahjell & Slow Motion Orchestra, K ...

* 2013: ''Songs By Geirr Tveitt'' (Ozella - OZ 048 CD), with

Camilla Granlien Camilla Granlien (born 1974) is a Norwegian folk singer, stev performer and educator. She was born in Elverum, and has studied music at the Voss Folk High School, the Ole Bull Academy, and the Telemark University College. She has worked as so ...

* 2015: ''Short Stories'' (Ozella - OZ 059 CD) ; With Synnøve S. Bjørset og Åse Teigland * 2010: ''Soli'' (ta:lik - TA83CD) ; With

Øyonn Groven Myhren Øyonn Groven Myhren (born 8 August 1969 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian traditional folk musician and kveder. Biography Groven Myhren is considered among our foremost traditional folk musicians, and has a series of first prizes from the tradi ...

* 2017: ''Sogesong'' (Heilo - HCD7319) *2018: Nordjordet (Jazzland Recordings – 377 908 5)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hytta, Anne 1974 births Living people Musicians from Telemark Norwegian fiddlers Norwegian traditional musicians NorCD artists Heilo Music artists 21st-century Norwegian singers 21st-century Norwegian women singers 21st-century violinists