Musician and composer Anne Hytta is a performer of the traditional music of Telemark on hardanger fiddle. The hardanger fiddle is 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, international folk string quartet Tokso, the duo…
Musician and composer Anne Hytta is a performer of the traditional music of Telemark on hardanger fiddle. The hardanger fiddle is 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, international folk string quartet Tokso, the duo Sogesong, and other ensembles.
Anne Hytta is participating in various projects including folk musicians from around the world, and also plays the medieval vielle in the duo Sogesong with singer Øyonn Groven Myhren. They released their first album “Så vide fara dei lindarord” on Heilo/Grappa Musikkforlag in 2017, which was nominated for the Norwegian Folk Music Award in 2018. The same year she received the honorable prize of “Folk musician of the year” from the Norwegian Folk Music Award.