Anne Hytta – musician and composer
Anne Hytta (born 1974) is a performer of the Hardanger Fiddle, a fiddle with
sympathetic strings and its own repertoire of traditional tunes. Her background is
deeply founded in the highly distinctive playing style of the repertoire of traditional
tunes for the Hardanger fiddle, and from this basis she composes and performs her
own music in the solo production Draumsyn, her trio Slagr or other ensembles.
She has created her own solo performance Draumsyn consisting of new
compositions for hardanger fiddle, viola d’amore and medieval vielle. The music was
released on German label Carpe Diem January 2014 to great reviews both in
Norwegian and foreign press. The album is currently nominated as the quarterly best
album in the open profile at the prestigious Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
Her trio Slagr has released four albums, two of them containing her own
compositions, to exellent reviews in both German and Nordic press. Their next trio
album will be released October 30th 2014.
Anne Hytta is participating in various projects including folk musicians from around
the world, and also plays the medieval vielle in the medieval music ensemble
Kalenda Maya.
In 2006, 2007 and 2009 Anne Hytta received the Norwegian Government Grants for
younger artists. She received the Norwegian Folk Music Award for best solo album in
2006 and 2011.