Ingfrid Breie Nyhus


Ingfrid Breie Nyhus is a Norwegian pianist, the daughter of fiddler Sven Nyhus and the younger sister of fiddler Åshild Breie Nyhus.
WWW breienyhus.no

Career

Ingfrid Breie Nyhus plays and creates folk, contemporary and classical music on the piano. She has studied piano at Norwegian Academy of Music, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. In 1999 she won the Ungdommens Pianomesterskap when it was awarded for the first time during the Festspillene i Bergen. She has performed at concert series and festivals in Norway and Europe within folk, classical, jazz and contemporary genres.
Together with her father and sister she released the album Tre Nyhus. In 2007 she released the album Edvard Grieg: Slåtter Opus 72, together with her sister, performed with piano and Hardanger fiddle. The album was nominated for 2007 Spellemannprisen in the category Classical music. In 2015, she released the album "Slåttepiano", and in 2021 "Slåttepiano II".

Honors

  • 2005: Den norske solistpris

Discography

Solo albums

  • 2015: Abstraction in Folk Art
  • 2015: Stille-stykkje
  • 2015: Slåttepiano
  • 2021: ''Slåttepiano II''

Collaborations

;With Sven Nyhus and Åshild Breie Nyhus
  • 2005: Tre Nyhus
;With Åshild Breie Nyhus
With Eir Inderhaug composed by Bjørn Kruse

Contributions