Biography

Title: Associate of the Royal Academy of Music

Education:

Postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music, teacher William Bennett, 1994-95.
Postgraduate study at the Norwegian State Academy of Music 1993-95.
Undergraduate study at the Norwegian State Academy of Music 1988-92.
Courses at Stockholm Improvisation Theater 2005
Pantomimestudies with Michael Manson, Stockholm 2004

Solo concerts with orchestra:

Soloist with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra 2008
Soloist with Camerata Nordica 2006
Soloist with Gävle Symphony Orchestra 2006
Soloist with KammarensembleN, Stockholm 2004
Soloist with Norrköping Symphony Orchestra 2004
Soloist with the Norwegian Chamber orchestra 2002 and 2001
Soloist with the Swedish Radio Baroque Orchestra 2002 and 2001
Soloist with the Norwegian Opera Orchestra 1999
Soloist with Camerata Roman, Sweden, 1999 and 1998
Soloist with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, twice in 1995
Soloist with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra 1995 and 1993
Soloist with the Royal Academy of Music Sinfonia 1995
Soloist with Praeludium Ensemble, Italy, 1994
Soloist with the Zurich Opera Orchestra in 1994,
conductor Mariss Jansons
Soloist with the Stavanger Symphony orchestra 1994

Solo concerts at music festivals:

Soloist at the Risør Festival of Chamber Music
(Norway) 2007
Soloist at the Joaquin Turina Chamber Music Festival
Sevilla (Spain) 2007
Barockt! (Sweden) 2006
Båstad Chambermusic Festival (Sweden) 2005
Forfest (Czeck Republic) 2005
Ung Nordisk Musik (Sweden) 2004
Musik vid Dellen (Sweden) 2004
Barockt! (Sweden) 2003
Glogerfestspillene (Norway) 2003
Oslo International Chamber Music Festival (Norway) 2002 Essens Music Festival (Norway) 2001
Tallinn International Flute Festival (Estonia) 2001
Bergen International Music Festival (Norway) 1999
Orpheum Soloists (Switzerland) 1994

Orchestra positions:

Principal flute in Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra 2007- 
Principal flute, the Royal Opera, Stockholm, 1999-2002
Principal flute, the Norwegian State Opera 1997-1999
Co-principal flute in Stavanger Symphony Orchestra 1993-96
   
Contracted solo flute in Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra autumn 2006
Offered soloflute position in the Santa Fe festivalorchestra,USA 2006
Conctracted solo flute in Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra spring 2006
Contracted solo flute in Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra autumn 2005
Contracted solo flute in Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra autumn 2004
Soloflute in Det Norske Kammerorkester 2004-

Plays regularly as principal flute with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

She has also worked as principal flute in Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Symphonyorchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphonyorchestra, Göteborg Symfoniker, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, the Brussel Opera.

Member of Swedens leading contemporary ensemble,
KammarensembleN 2005-2007

Competitions:

Scholarships:

2005 Konstnärsnämden
2005 Fond for utøvende kunstnere
2005-2007 Norwegian Art Council, Statens Kunstnerstipend
2004 Norwegian Arts Council
2003 Fond for lyd og bilde
2003 Fond for utøvende kunstnere
2001 Operavännernas vid Kungliga Operan stipendium
2000 Det Norske Komponistfond
1999 Sleipnir fond
1999 Norsk Kassettavgiftsfond
1999 Det Norske Komponistfond
1998 Norsk Musikerforbunds Kunstneropphold Aegina
1998 Rikskonsertenes debutstøtte
1997 Den Norske Operas reisestipend
1997 Segerstens stiftelse
1997 Statens etableringsstipend
1996 Arvesen scholarship fund
1996 Elsa Wagner stipend
1995 The Royal Academy of Music bursary
1995, 97, 99, Fond for utøvende kunstnere
1995 Ole Bull stipend
1994, 99, Tom Wilhelmsens stiftelse
1994 Klæstads legat
1993 Norges Musikkhøgskoles felleslegat
1993,94, Solo stipend
1991, 94 Drammen kommunes kulturpris
1986 WASBE scholarship
1985 SAS’ Kunstnerstipend

Other highlights:

Been a soloist in different TV programmes broadcasted in all
European countries,"Kontrapunkt" 1994 (NRK/SVT/YLE/DR),
"Orpheum Soloists"1994 (EBU), "Sommeråpent"1994 (NRK),
"Kompositören Kraus" 2001 (SVT), among others.

Played as a soloist for the Royal families in Norway and Sweden.

Performed in great halls over the whole world: Carnegie Hall (New York), Versailles Castle (Paris), The Concertgebouw, (Amsterdam), Musikverein (Vienna), Beethovenhalle (Baden Baden), Petronas Hall (Kuala Lumpur)
The Music Conservatorium (St Petersburg), Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires).