Anne Hytta is a performer and composer of the Hardanger Fiddle, a folk instrument with sympathetic strings and its own repertoire of traditional tunes. Her background is deeply founded in the repertoire of traditional tunes for the Hardanger fiddle, growing up in Sauland, Telemark in south eastern Norway, a district with rich, old folk music traditions. She learned the old hardanger fiddle repertoire from a great master, Einar Løndal (1914-2006), and later on also from master Knut Buen (1948-).
As a solo performer of the hardanger fiddle, Hytta both play concerts with the old traditional repertoire, but also with her own new composed music for the hardanger fiddle, inspired by the old repertoire. The hypnotizing rhythmic pulse so typical for of traditional repertoire for the Hardanger fiddle is present in the performance, but more than anything the music is patient meditation over musical images. Her new performance Gjennom dagen, with video, photos and light design by Evelina Dembacke, her own new music and stories that are told throughout the performance, premiered on November 10th 2019 at Riksscenen in Oslo.
In 2014 she released the album Draumsyn with her own music for hardanger fiddle, viola d'amore and the medieval string instrument vielle. She received the Norwegian Folk Music Award for best solo album in 2006, 2011 and 2017, and the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannprisen) for best album in the open category in 2015 with her trio Slagr. In 2017 she received the Norwegian Grammy for her latest solo release “Strimur”.
Folk musician and composer Anne Hytta keeps impressing - and surprising - the listener with her determined innovative search for the innermost soul of her instrument.
Svein Andersen, Aftenposten
As a solo performer of the hardanger fiddle, Hytta both play concerts with the old traditional repertoire, but also with her own new composed music for the hardanger fiddle, inspired by the old repertoire. The hypnotizing rhythmic pulse so typical for of traditional repertoire for the Hardanger fiddle is present in the performance, but more than anything the music is patient meditation over musical images. Her new performance Gjennom dagen, with video, photos and light design by Evelina Dembacke, her own new music and stories that are told throughout the performance, premiered on November 10th 2019 at Riksscenen in Oslo.
In 2014 she released the album Draumsyn with her own music for hardanger fiddle, viola d'amore and the medieval string instrument vielle. She received the Norwegian Folk Music Award for best solo album in 2006, 2011 and 2017, and the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannprisen) for best album in the open category in 2015 with her trio Slagr. In 2017 she received the Norwegian Grammy for her latest solo release “Strimur”.
Folk musician and composer Anne Hytta keeps impressing - and surprising - the listener with her determined innovative search for the innermost soul of her instrument.
Svein Andersen, Aftenposten