Ingrid Søfteland Neset

Ingrid Søfteland Neset (born 9 May 1992 in Os, Hordaland) is an award-winning Norwegian Classical flautist living in Stavanger (2017). She is the daughter of music teachers guitarist Terje Neset (born 1959) and pianist Anne Leni Søfteland Sæbø (born 1961), and the sister of the vocalist Anna Søfteland Neset (born 1987) and jazz saxophonist Marius Søfteland Neset (born 1985).[1] She is known from numerous performances with orchestras like Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and in concerts and recordings (Birds 2013) with her older brother Marius Neset.[2]

Ingrid Neset
Birth nameIngrid Søfteland Neset
Born (1992-05-09) 9 May 1992
Os, Hordaland
OriginNorway
GenresClassical music, jazz
Occupation(s)Musician
InstrumentsFlute, piccolo flute,

Career

Neset picked up the flute at the age of ten and attended the Music program at Langhaugen vgs. (2008–10). She is a part of the talented class "Unge Musikere", of the Griegakademiet, where she has been under guidance of flautist and professor Gro Sandvik, she has attended master classes with some of the leading flautists in the world, like Sharon Bezaly, Ian Clarke, Wissam Boustany, in the summer of 2009 she was invited to join in a flute workshop in Weggis, Switzerland directed by the renowned flautist and flute teacher James Galway, and studied music on the bachelor's program at the Royal Danish Academy of Music (2010–13).[3] From 2015 Neset is appointed prinsipal flautist of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.[4] In 2016 she received the Léonie Sonning talent prize.

Neset gave five concerts with the trio 'Jenter fra Bergen' at the 'Fartein Valen Festival' in 2009, played with the Young Symphony Orchestra at the Bergen International Festival, and performed for the Norwegian royal family when they visited Austevoll the same year. In 2013 she first participated on her brothers album Birds with festival appearances on such as Vossajazz,[5] and there after on the album Escapism (2013) Neset collaborated with the Danish artist Fallulah (Maria Apetri), with performance on the Isle of Wight Festival in England.[6]

Honors
  • 2009: Musician of the Year at the Norwegian Young Musician Competition in Oslo
  • 2009: Drømmestipendet[7]
  • 2011: The Partas Culture Scholarships[8]
  • 2013: Young Star Prize awarded by Statkraft at 'Hardanger Musikkfest'[9][10]
  • 2015: Winner of this years soloist competition awarded by The Royal Danish Academy of Music[11]
  • 2016 Léonie Sonning talent prize

Discography
With Marius Neset
With Fallulah

References
  1. Bruarøy, Kjetil Vasby (24 December 2012). "Musikarfamilie i julestemning" (in Norwegian). midtsiden.no. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  2. Patterson, Ian (17 December 2012). "Marius Neset: Birds – Review". All About Jazz. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  3. Lindebotten, John (11 April 2012). "Unge mestere i gammel tradisjon" (in Norwegian). Bergens Tidende. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  4. "Stavanger Symphony Orchestra - musicians". Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  5. Wicklund, Erling (30 April 2013). "Marius Neset – Birds Review" (in Norwegian). NRK Jazz. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  6. "Ingrid Søfteland Neset mottar Statkraft's Young Star stipend 2013" (in Norwegian). HardangerMusikkfest.no. Archived from the original on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  7. "Ett steg nærmere den store drømmen" (in Norwegian). Drommestipendet.no. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  8. Arstad, Hege (3 December 2009). "Partas Kulturstipend" (in Norwegian). Partas.no. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  9. "Fløytist vant Young Star-prisen" (in Norwegian). Hardanger Musikkfest. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  10. "Trondheim jazzorkester og Marius Neset" (in Norwegian). Vossajazz. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  11. "Fløjtenist vinder DKDM's solistkonkurrence" (in Danish). DKDM.dk. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
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