"The strongest vocal work was by Eira Huse – better known as a mezzo-soprano – whose Witness (2024) ingeniously used Hassler's familiar hymn as a basis." Review Musica Nova Helsinki 2025 by Mats Liljeroos, Hufvudstadsbladet (Finland)
"The strongest vocal work was by Eira Huse – better known as a mezzo-soprano – whose Witness (2024) ingeniously used Hassler's familiar hymn as a basis." Review after Musica Nova Helsinki 2025 by Mats Liljeroos, Hufvudstadsbladet (Finland)
Eira has studied composition at The Norwegian Academy of Music with teachers such as Rolf Gupta, Rolf Wallin and Bente Leiknes Thorsen. In recent years her compositions have been performed in festivals such as Musica Nova Helsinki, Tampere Biennale, Borealis Festival Bergen and Ultima, and she has collaborated with professional ensembles, conductors and soloists such as Key Ensemble, Linnéa Sundfær Casserly, Jutta Seppinen, Ensemble Obsidian and more. She composes both vocal and instrumental pieces, and future projects include a new duo for violist Eivind Ringstad and trombone player Runa Hermansen.
Besides composing written scores, she works with improvisation based realtime composition in collaboration with distinguished jazz musicians such as Ayumi Tanaka, Erlend Albertsen and Ellie Aurora.
Listen to Kristin Kverndokk interviewing Eira & soprano soloist Linnéa Sundfær Casserly about "Witness" at NRK radio (in Norwegian)
Eira has studied composition at The Norwegian Academy of Music with teachers such as Rolf Gupta, Rolf Wallin and Bente Leiknes Thorsen. In recent years her compositions have been performed in festivals such as Musica Nova Helsinki, Tampere Biennale, Borealis Festival Bergen and Ultima, and she has collaborated with professional ensembles, conductors and soloists such as Key Ensemble, Linnéa Sundfær Casserly, Jutta Seppinen, Ensemble Obsidian and more. She composes both vocal and instrumental pieces, and future projects include a new duo for violist Eivind Ringstad and trombone player Runa Hermansen.
Besides composing written scores, she works with improvisation based realtime composition in collaboration with distinguished jazz musicians such as Ayumi Tanaka, Erlend Albertsen and Ellie Aurora.
Listen to Kristin Kverndokk interviewing Eira & soprano soloist Linnéa Sundfær Casserly about "Witness" at NRK radio (in Norwegian)
Eira has studied composition at The Norwegian Academy of Music with teachers such as Rolf Gupta, Rolf Wallin and Bente Leiknes Thorsen. In recent years her compositions have been performed in festivals such as Musica Nova Helsinki, Tampere Biennale, Borealis Festival Bergen and Ultima, and she has collaborated with professional ensembles, conductors and soloists such as Key Ensemble, Linnéa Sundfær Casserly, Jutta Seppinen, Ensemble Obsidian and more. She composes both vocal and instrumental pieces, and future projects include a new duo for violist Eivind Ringstad and trombone player Runa Hermansen.
Besides composing written scores, she works with improvisation based realtime composition in collaboration with distinguished jazz musicians such as Ayumi Tanaka, Erlend Albertsen and Ellie Aurora.
Eira has studied composition at The Norwegian Academy of Music with teachers such as Rolf Gupta, Rolf Wallin and Bente Leiknes Thorsen. In recent years her compositions have been performed in festivals such as Musica Nova Helsinki, Tampere Biennale, Borealis Festival Bergen and Ultima, and she has collaborated with professional ensembles, conductors and soloists such as Key Ensemble, Linnéa Sundfær Casserly, Jutta Seppinen, Ensemble Obsidian and more. She composes both vocal and instrumental pieces, and future projects include a new duo for violist Eivind Ringstad and trombone player Runa Hermansen.
Besides composing written scores, she works with improvisation based realtime composition in collaboration with distinguished jazz musicians such as Ayumi Tanaka, Erlend Albertsen and Ellie Aurora.
Eira has studied composition at The Norwegian Academy of Music with teachers such as Rolf Gupta, Rolf Wallin and Bente Leiknes Thorsen. In recent years her compositions have been performed in festivals such as Musica Nova Helsinki, Tampere Biennale, Borealis Festival Bergen and Ultima, and she has collaborated with professional ensembles, conductors and soloists such as Key Ensemble, Linnéa Sundfær Casserly, Jutta Seppinen, Ensemble Obsidian and more. She composes both vocal and instrumental pieces, and future projects include a new duo for violist Eivind Ringstad and trombone player Runa Hermansen.
Besides composing written scores, she works with improvisation based realtime composition in collaboration with distinguished jazz musicians such as Ayumi Tanaka, Erlend Albertsen and Ellie Aurora.
Listen to Kristin Kverndokk interviewing Eira & soprano soloist Linnéa Sundfær Casserly about "Witness" at NRK radio (in Norwegian)
Elementori's review of "Witness" at Tampere Biennale 2024:
"Sometimes in a concert it happens that a composition simply surprises, speaks to you and takes the listener with it. Tonight was one such evening..."
...Now we have come to the piece that surprised the author and was referred to at the beginning. "Witness", which had its world premiere, shows a moral responsibility not to look away when we witness the oppression of humanity and violations against it. Eira Huse's piece adapts both the text and the music from Hans Leo Hassler's hymn known from Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and frees it from its starting point in a creative and fascinating way. It develops into a violent and expressionistic with a standstill of piercing sopranos where soprano soloist Linnéa Sundfær Casserly once again excels, and the piece sinks deeply into the listener. I had to go and thank the Norwegian composer after the concert to exchange a few words about the experience.
Elementori's review of Tampere Biennale 2024:
"Sometimes in a concert it happens that a composition simply surprises, speaks to you and takes the listener with it. Tonight was one such evening..."
...Now we have come to the piece that surprised the author and was referred to at the beginning. "Witness", which had its world premiere, shows a moral responsibility not to look away when we witness the oppression of humanity and violations against it. Eira Huse's piece adapts both the text and the music from Hans Leo Hassler's hymn known from Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and frees it from its starting point in a creative and fascinating way. It develops into a violent and expressionistic with a standstill of piercing sopranos where soprano soloist Linnéa Sundfær Casserly once again excels, and the piece sinks deeply into the listener. I had to go and thank the Norwegian composer after the concert to exchange a few words about the experience.