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BENEDICTE MAURSETH

Benedicte Maruseth. Photo: Pål Laukli

Fotograf: Pål Laukli

NEWS

Systerspel

Máni - new comissioned work for Voss jazz festival 2022, with fiddle player Sarah-Jane Summers.
 

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The album “Hárr” received the award Nordic Music Prize 2022 for the best Nordic album of the year!

NEW RELEASES 

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 Bio//

BENEDICTE MAURSETH

Benedicte Maurseth is a well-established and esteemed performer and composer on Norway’s music scene. She has studied with Hardanger fiddle master Knut Hamre for close to thirty years and is an alumna of the Ole Bull Academy. Maurseth has toured extensively as a soloist and in collaboration with others, both in Norway and internationally. She works closely with many of the leading artists across genres and artistic expressions such as Jon Fosse, Anne Marit Jacobsen, Rolf Lislevand, Mats Eilertsen, Berit Opheim, Merilyn Crispell, and more. Maurseth has written music for theater and film and other commissioned works for festivals and albums. The work Tidekverv, which was premiered in 2017, was awarded NOPA's music prize, and her song «Very Full», which was specially written for the TV series Loki (Marvel Studio), ranked high on the Billboard list.

Maurseth also received many prestigious artist grants from the Norwegian state for cultivating her tradition and creative work. She has recorded albums for Grappa Musikkforlag (Hubro & Heilo) and ECM Records, and has also published books, articles and essays. Her book To be nothing. Conversations with Knut Hamre, Hardanger Fiddle Master, was published at Terra Nova Press / MIT Press fall 2019.  Her latest album Hárr was awarded «Best Nordic album of the year», and received the prestigious Nordic Music Prize for 2022. In 2022 she also released the book Systerspel (Fiddlesisters) about the history of female fiddle players in Norway from 1700 until today.

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Photo: Øystein Haara

DISCOGRAPHY

2006-present//

Systerspel bok

Systerspel bok

Benedicte Maurseth Hárr

Benedicte Maurseth Hárr

Be here whenever

Be here whenever

Blått Svev

Blått Svev

To Be Nothing

To Be Nothing

Benedicte Maurseth

Benedicte Maurseth

TIDEKVERV

TIDEKVERV

Slåttar frå Granvin

Slåttar frå Granvin

Å være ingenting

Å være ingenting

Over Tones (2014)

Over Tones (2014)

Anima (2012)

Anima (2012)

Alde (2010)

Alde (2010)

Fodne ho svara stilt (2008)

Fodne ho svara stilt (2008)

Rosa i botnen (2006)

Rosa i botnen (2006)

BENEDICTE MAURSETH

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HI-RES PHOTOS

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Contact

CONTACT

 

Label//

Grappa Musikkforlag / Heilo / +47 23358011  /  www.grappa.no / froydis@grappa.no

ECM / guido.gorna@ecmrecords.com / www.ecmrecords.com

OK World Jazzland Recordings / sten4@mac.com / www.jazzlandrec.com

 

Booking//

Benedicte Maurseth / b.maurseth@yahoo.no / Tel +47 95 97 99 04

 

Press//

Benedicte Maurseth / b.maurseth@yahoo.no / Tel +47 95 97 99 04

Thank you! You will hear from us soon!

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