Tine Thing Helseth ( ; ; born 18 August 1987) is a

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soloist specializing in classical repertoire.

Career

Helseth was born in

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. She started to play trumpet at the age of 7 in a

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and studied at the

Barratt Due Institute of Music The Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, Norway, is a music education institute founded in 1927 by pianist Mary Barratt Due and violinist Henrik Adam Due. It is situated in Fagerborg in Oslo and is a private stiftelse, foundation which receive ...

from 2002 to 2009 and at the

Norwegian Academy of Music The Norwegian Academy of Music (Norwegian: ''Norges musikkhøgskole'', NMH) is a university-level music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the co ...

from 2009 to 2011. Her teachers have included Heidi Johanessen (Norwegian National Opera Orchestra) and since 2002 Arnulf Naur Nilsen (

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra The Oslo Philharmonic (Oslo-Filharmonien) is a Norwegian symphony orchestra based in Oslo, Norway. The orchestra traces its roots to the Philharmonic Society founded in 1847 and the Christiania Musical Association co-founded by Edvard Grieg in 187 ...

).Egil Arnt Gundersen
Tine Thing Helseth
Store Norske Leksikon, retrieved 30 March 2013 Helseth is the leader of an all female brass ensemble, tenThing. In 2011, Helseth was named a "Superstar of Tomorrow" by ''

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''. The same year she signed a contract with

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Concert and festival performances

Helseth has performed with orchestras including the

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, Beethoven Academie, Capella Cracoviensis, The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Slovenian Radio Symphony Ljubljana, Oslo Camerata, Camerata Nordica, Württemberg Philharmonic, the

Trondheim Soloists Trondheim Soloists ( no, Trondheimsolistene) are a musical chamber ensemble of string players based in Trondheim, Norway. The ensemble was founded in 1988 and has been an arena for professional concert training for string-players at the Music Con ...

, Norwegian symphony orchestras, Norwegian Army bands and other brass and wind ensembles. She has appeared at music festivals including

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, Kissinger Summer Festival and Usedomer Music Festival. In 2007 Helseth performed at the

Nobel Peace Prize Concert The Nobel Peace Prize Concert (Norwegian and Swedish: '')'' has been held annually since 1994 on 11 December, to honour the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The award ceremony on 10 December takes place in Oslo City Hall, while the concert has been ...

. Helseth has also performed more than five times in the

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so far. The first time was on 13 December 2009 at the

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She then performed at

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on 18 February 2011, and the Struthers Library Theatre in

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on 20 February 2011. Her most recent solo performance in the United States took place on 23–25 May 2014 at Bass Performance Hall in

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. In April 2019 she toured the US for two weeks with her all-female brass group - tenTHING and among other locations they performed at the Empire Theatre in San Antonio, Texas on 4 April 2019. In 2012, she opened the memorial concert for the

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by playing trumpet from the roof of

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. In 2013 she appeared twice in the

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, performing with tenThing at the

Cadogan Hall Cadogan Hall is a 950-seat capacity concert hall in Sloane Terrace in Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England. The resident music ensemble at Cadogan Hall is the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), the first ...

and also at the

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Releases

She appears 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, Tine released her debut album ''Storyteller'' as well as the debut album of her brass ensemble ''tenThing'', called ''10'', on EMI Classics. Her newest CD ''TINE'', a personal selection of original and transcribed works, was released on 12 March 2013.

Prizes, contests and awards

*National Soloist Championship of Norway no-age-limit open class 1st Prize 2004 *International Trumpet competition "

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" Brussels, Belgium 2nd prize 2005 *Oslo Music Teachers Foundation Prize of Honour 2005 *

Yamaha Music Foundation The Yamaha Music Foundation is an organization established in 1966 by the authority of the Japanese Ministry of Education for the purpose of promoting music education and music popularization. It continued a program of music classes begun by Yamaha ...

Europe Scholarship 2006 *

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2nd place * The Prince Eugen Culture Prize 2006 *

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Radio P2 Prize for 2006/2007 * Luitpold Prize of the festival

Kissinger Sommer The Kissinger Sommer is a classical music festival held every year in the summer in the city of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Southern Germany. History The festival was founded in 1986. At the beginning the focus of the festival was on the improve ...

, 2007 *

Spellemannprisen Spellemannprisen, often referred to as the Norwegian Grammy Awards in English, is a Norwegian music award presented to Norwegian musicians. The award was established by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), an organizati ...

for best newcomer, 2007 * Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, 2009

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''

References

External links

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Haydn Concerto 3rd mvt on YouTube
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