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Tuva Halse (born 1999 in Molde, Norway) is an instrumentalist, composer, and arranger known for her lyrical jazz improvisations on violin, her refined melodic compositions, and as a founding member of the Fjordgata label.

Biography
Tuva Karen Halse was born in Molde in 1999. She studies at the Bekkevoll Junior High School, then enters the Molde High School, where she attends the music programme. She turns to jazz violin when Arne Torvik, her piano teacher since the age of 13, introduces her to jazz, suggests her to use violin for this, and attracts her attention to the music of Mathias Eick. Listening to Ola Kvernberg at Moldejazz in 2016 is also a decisive experience which initiates her interest in jazz music, showing the diversity of ways violin can be used. In 2019 she enters the Jazzlinja, a jazz training of the Conservatory in Trondheim at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where she meets many of the musicians she will work with in the next several years. At the Jazzlinja, Halse is part of the Magellan band, which tours in Norway in 2021 with the suite In Search Of. In 2022, after graduation Halse pursues a career as an improviser, composer, arranger, band leader, sometimes as a soloist, and has been invited or selected to participate in a large number of groups in the fields of jazz, folk, pop, and contemporary music. Halse claims a musical lineage with Adam Bałdych, and cites him as the musician who ultimately motivated her to become the musician who she is. Halse cites Chet Baker, Kenny Wheeler, Pat Metheny, Ola Kvernberg and Arne Torvik as other influences. She defines herself as a melancholic musician playing "mountain jazz", and says that she "feels at home" in the sound of the complex Nordic jazz idiom.

Career
Tuva Halse is a multifarious artist who simultaneously develops her own groups pursuing distinct ambitions: Bento Box (Tuva Halse, violin; Benjamín Gísli Einarsson, piano; Øyvind Leite, drums), the Tuva Halse Quintet (with additionally Oscar Andreas Haug, trumpet, and Gard Kronborg - bass), and the tuvahalseband (Tuva Halse, synth ((Yamaha Reface CS), violin, vocals; Emil Storløkken Åse, guitar; Jakob Nordli Leirvik and Sara Fjeldvær, vocals; Oda Steinkopf, bass; Øyvind Leite or Veslemøy Narvesen, drums), and contributes to many other projects on the Norwegian scene, such as the Miriam Kibakaya Concept, Røsten, Melting Pot , and OJKOS . The sound of her violin combines refined and lyrical, but energetic and passionate, improvisations bearing a strong classical music imprint. Torkjell Hovland writes that she "creates spaces in the music" and "is concerned with the energy in payses between the notes as much as the notes themselves". Her violin was described by Tor Hammerø as having a light, bright, and highly transparent tone.

Fjordgata
Together with Audun Rørmark, Sara Fjeldvær, and Benjamín Gislí Einarsson, Tuva Halse is one of the founding members of Fjordgata Records, an independent music label born in 2021.

Discography

 * As a leader
 * Boxed, Bento Box, Fjordgata Records (2022)
 * Two, Tuva Halse Quintet, Jazzland Recordings (2023)
 * Nemesis (EP), tuvahalseband, Fjordgata Records (2023)


 * As a co-leader
 * Demring - November - I Puste (Singles) Duets with Ingrid Vingen Sunde (2018)


 * As a member
 * Roots, Miriam Kibakaya Concept, Jazzland Recordings (2023)


 * As a sidemusician
 * Information Therapy, Jonas Ledang, Øra Fonogram (2020)
 * Sara Fjeldvær, Sara Fjeldvær, Fjordgata Records (2021)
 * The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Jonas Ledang, Øra Fonogram (2022)
 * We Don't Imagine Anymore, Vestemøy Narvesen, Jazzland Recordings (2023)
 * I Could Even Try To Change Your Mind, Leon Røsten, Spupz Night Crab Life (2023)
 * After The Rain, Mathias Angelhus, Øra Fonogram (2023)
 * Stars, Sara Fjeldvær, Fjordgata Records (2024)

Awards

 * Talent prizes
 * Drømmstipendet (2017)
 * Sparebanken Møre (2022)
 * Sparebanken SMN (2022)
 * Handelsbanken year, evidence


 * Competitions
 * Jazzintro finalist (Bento Box Trio), Molde International Jazz Festival (2022)
 * Selected as Melting Pot artist (2023)
 * Selected in the OJKOS Orchestra for Jazz Composers (2023)


 * Grants
 * Young artist-in-residence, Classical arts festival Fjord Cadenza year, date range

Concerts (old)
The list starts in 2020. It is incomplete before 2022, complete for 2022-23, and updated until 19-03-2024.

Concerts (new)
Since 2020 • ; As a leader

• Bento Box Trio (2020-23)

• Tuva Halse Quintet (2022-2024)

• tuvahalseband (2022-24)

• ; As a co-leader

• Alex Ventling/Tuva Halse (2022)

• Tord Gustafsen/Tuva Halse (2022)

• tuvahalseband & Audun Rørmark (2022-2023)

• Audun Rørmark/Tuva Halse (2022-23)

• Peter Knudsen/Tuva Halse/Amund Storløkken Åse (2022-23)

• Arne Torvik/Tuva Halse (2023-24)

• Tuva Halse/Emil Storløkken Åse (2024)

• ; As a member

• Lærlingan (2021-22)

• Magellan (2021)

• Miriam Kibakaya Concept (2022-23)

• Røsten (2022-24)

• Melting Pot 2023 (2023-24)

• OJKOS (2023-24)

• ; As a sidemusician

• ''Susana Santos Silva Band (2022)

• Alpaca Ensemble & Eirik Hegdal (2023)

• Fayen (2022-23)

• Jamåpning Molde (2023)

• Jonas Ledang (2022)

• Leon Røsten Septett (2022)

• Liv Ellen Rønning Ensemble (2022)

• Peter Roberstad Dimension X (2022)

• Petters Jazzjam (2023)

• Slaget på Testiklestad (theatre) (2022)

• Leon Røsten Ensemble (2023)

• Mathias Eick Quintet (2023)

• Parksalongen Jam (2023)

• Starlight Big Band (2022)

• Trond Kallevåg (2024)

• Sara Fjeldvær (2024)

• ; As a soloist

• 2022-23