Anne Hytta is one of the foremost performers of the hardanger fiddle, an instrument with sympathetic strings and its own repertoire of traditional tunes. Her work is deeply founded in the distinctive playing style of the traditional tunes for the hardanger fiddle. From this point she composes and performs her own music in the solo production Draumsyn, her trio Slagr and other ensembles.

– The rich, rasping, intense timbre of the Hardanger fiddle has always attracted me, and at the age of eleven, I started taking lessons from Einar Løndal (1914-2006) in Tuddal, Telemark. Norwegian tunes, as I have learned to play them, have strictly defined structures. However, to a certain extent at a minimalist level you are free to vary motifs and to add colour through ornamentation.

I think it is these elements that have made me feel that playing tunes is a natural mode of musical expression. I like the music, and I like performing it in my own way.
Anne Hytta