Anne Hytta

Anne Hytta (born 1974) from Sauland in the south eastern part of Norway is currently living in Oslo. She is among the foremost performers of the Hardanger violin, a special fiddle with sympathetic strings and its own repertoire of traditional tunes. In 2006 and 2007 Anne Hytta received the Government Grants for younger artists.Her solo album “dag, kveld, natt” (”day, evening, night”) is an album containing three landscapes of sonorous sounds from the Hardanger violin. The bright light – day, the shadows – evening, and the dark – night, is represented on the record through three different ways of tuning the fiddle, which illuminate different harmonies and sounds. Anne Hytta states about her solo album “dag, kveld, natt”: The rich, rasping, intense timbre of the Hardanger fiddle has always attracted me. Norwegian country airs as I have learned to play them have strictly defined structures. However, to a certain extent at minimalist level you are free to vary motifs and to add colour through ornamentation, and I think it these elements that have made me feel that playing airs is a natural mode of musical expression for me. I like the music, and I like performing it in my own way. She received the Norwegian Folk Music Award for best solo album in 2006.Anne writes and performs music with the trio Slagr . In addition to herself, Sigrun Eng plays the cello and Amund Sjølie Sveen plays vibraphone. Slagr released their Debut Album "Solaris" November 2007 to great reviews.She is also a member of SYM with French nyckelharpist Eléonore Billy and English nyckelharpist Clare Salaman. They all compose music for the trio.They will release their debut album "Symbiosis" spring 2008. She is a member of the early music ensembles Kalenda Maya and Camelias Blancas , and she is one of three soloist in the concert "Greatest Girls of Norway" with Åse Teigland and Synnøve S. Bjørset.