The #huninvesterer scholarship for Tuva Halse
Tuva Halse has been awarded the #huninvesterer grant for 2024. The development grant of NOK 100.000 was awarded during the jazz festival's opening, and is awarded to female musicians in the establishment phase.
The violinist and composer Tuva Halse has his background in the creative jazz environment in Trondheim. She basically has a classical background, and in the transitions between classical music and the music she encountered on the jazz course at NTNU, she has developed a highly personal expression. Tuva plays the violin, and after she heard Ola Kvernberg, she realized that she had to learn the "jazz language" too.
- It is a pleasure to give such a personal, talented and ambitious musician appreciative support on the way forward, says festival director Ragnhild Menes. We look forward to hearing her at the festival next year.
Tuva Halse has already established herself with three bands of her own. Three different bands - but all with a clear and personal stamp: Nordic jazz and Nordic folk music with a whiff of classical music characterizes most of what she does. This says a lot about her ambitions to find a niche that is hers and the records she has released have received very positive reception. She has already received several awards, and recently she was appointed NTNU ambassador.
The violinist has already played on many major jazz stages in Norway with his own projects and other musicians such as Mathias Eick, Tord Gustavsen and Trondheim Jazz Orkester
- A great honour, an enormous recognition, a great inspiration to work more with music, Tuva Halse said when she received the scholarship. - I'm lucky here to get so much support and backing in what I love to do, so now I apply myself to invest a lot of time in creating new music.
#huninvesterer scholarship
DNB and Kongsberg Jazzfestival have a long collaboration that stretches all the way back to the establishment of the festival in 1964. As part of the collaboration, we established the #huninvesterer scholarship in 2022. Through the #huninvesterer grant, DNB and Kongsberg Jazzfestival together want to focus on the economic gap between women and men, which is present both within the financial sector and in the music industry. The #huninvester grant is a development grant of NOK. NOK 100.000 to be used to invest in their own career, by a performer in the establishment phase, who has shown a significant will and uncompromising commitment to his own artistry.
The first prize was awarded during the festival last year and went to saxophonist Mona Krogstad, who performs the commissioned work "Serenity Now" in Sølvsalen during this year's jazz festival.
