HILDE HEFTE
Genres: Vocal Jazz, Pop, Art Song, Folk • Norway

When Hilde Hefte released her first solo album Down Beat wrote: "She's making waves on the Norwegian scene". Hilde studied music at the highly respected Barratt-Dues Music Institute with piano as her main instrument. She has been playing, alto saxophone and Bb clarinet, and she has studied acting at Nordic Institute for Scene and Studio. For one periode she was teacher at Vest-Agder Music Conservatorium. She's been giving parts in different plays; for example the leading part as Edith Piaf to mention one.. She has written lyrics, composed music for her own productions as well as for other musicians and singers and she's composed and arranged music for theatre productions. She's released 5 solo albums to fantastic reviews: 1. A tribute to Chet Baker, "'Round Chet's Midnight", named the album of the year in Norway's jazz-magazine Jazznytt. 2. A tribute to the pianist Bill Evans, "Playsong - the music of Bill Evans", and as well as her read more...