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{{Short description|Norwegian trumpeter (born 1987)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name                = Tine Thing Helseth
| image               = File:Tine Thing Helseth 02 (cropped).jpg
| caption             = Thing Helseth in 2008
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| background          = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name          = 
| alias               = 
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1987|8|18|df=y}}
| death_date          = 
| birth_place         = [[Oslo]], Norway
| instrument          = [[Trumpet]]s by [[Vincent Bach Corporation]]<ref name=Limelight>{{cite magazine|title=Playing Up – The Trumpet|author=Tine Thing Helseth|date=May 2024|magazine=[[Limelight (magazine)|Limelight]]|page=64|url=https://limelight-arts.com.au/features/playing-up-the-trumpet-with-tine-thing-helseth/|access-date=7 May 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
| genre               = [[Classical music|Classical]]
| occupation          = [[Solo (music)|Soloist]] trumpeter
| years_active        = 
| label               = [[EMI Classics]]
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| website             = {{URL|https://www.tinethinghelseth.com/}}
| current_members     = 
}}

'''Tine Thing Helseth''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|iː|n|ə|_|t|ɪ|ŋ|_|ˈ|h|ɛ|l|s|ə|t}} {{respell|TEE|nə|_|ting|_|HEL|sət}}; born 18 August 1987) is a Norwegian [[trumpet]] soloist specializing in classical repertoire.

== Career ==
Helseth was born in [[Oslo]]. She started to play trumpet at the age of 7 in a [[school band]] and studied at the [[Barratt Due Institute of Music]] from 2002 to 2009 and at the [[Norwegian Academy of Music]] from 2009 to 2011. Her teachers have included Heidi Johanessen ([[Norwegian National Opera and Ballet|Norwegian National Opera]] Orchestra) and, since 2002, Arnulf Naur Nilsen ([[Oslo Philharmonic]]).<ref name=snl>Egil Arnt Gundersen: [http://snl.no/Tine_Thing_Helseth "Tine Thing Helseth"], ''[[Great Norwegian Encyclopedia]]'', retrieved 30 March 2013 {{in lang|no}}</ref><ref name="myspace">
{{cite web
| publisher=myspace.com
| title=About Tine Thing Helseth
| url=https://www.myspace.com/tinethinghelseth
| access-date=19 December 2007
}}</ref>

Helseth is the leader of an all female brass ensemble, tenThing.<ref>
{{cite web
| publisher=www.tenthing.no
| title=tenThing brass ensemble
| url=http://www.tenthing.no/
| access-date=21 December 2007
}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=October 2024}}

In 2011, Helseth was named a "Superstar of Tomorrow" by ''[[BBC Music Magazine]]''. The same year she signed a contract with [[EMI Classics]].<ref name=snl/>

==Concert and festival performances==
Helseth has performed with orchestras including the [[Vienna Symphony]], Beethoven Academie, [[Capella Cracoviensis]], the [[Norwegian Chamber Orchestra]], [[Liverpool Philharmonic]], [[Shanghai Symphony Orchestra]],<ref>{{cite web
| publisher=www.norway.cn
| title=Award Winning Trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
| url=http://www.norway.cn/shanghai/events/TineThingHelseth.htm
| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130116025206/http://www.norway.cn/shanghai/events/TineThingHelseth.htm
| url-status=dead
| archive-date=16 January 2013
| access-date=20 December 2007
}}</ref> [[RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra]], [[Oslo Camerata]], [[Camerata Nordica]], {{ill|Württembergische Philharmonie|de}}, the [[Trondheim Soloists]], Norwegian symphony orchestras, Norwegian Army bands and other brass and wind ensembles.

She has appeared at music festivals including [[Bergen International Festival]], Kissinger Summer Festival and Usedomer Music Festival.<ref name="simaxprofile" />

In 2007 Helseth performed at the [[Nobel Peace Prize Concert]].

Helseth has also performed more than five times in the United States. In 2009, she performed at the [[National Gallery of Art]] in Washington, D.C.; in 2011, at [[Carnegie Hall]] in New York City and the [[Struthers Library Theatre]] in [[Warren, Pennsylvania]]; in 2014, at [[Bass Performance Hall]] in Fort Worth, Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesobserver.com/page/content.detail/id/544259/Orchestra-presents-world-renowned-trumpeter.html?nav=5011|title=Orchestra presents world-renowned trumpeter|newspaper=Times Observer|location=Warren, Pennsylvania|date=2011-02-10 |access-date=2013-08-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318055600/http://www.timesobserver.com/page/content.detail/id/544259/Orchestra-presents-world-renowned-trumpeter.html?nav=5011 |archive-date=2012-03-18 }}</ref> In 2019, she toured the United States with her all-female brass group, tenThing.

In 2012, she opened the memorial concert for the [[2011 Norway attacks]] by playing trumpet from the roof of [[Oslo City Hall]].<ref>Hege Bakken Riise: [http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.8251776 "Dediserte låt til de pårørende"] [[NRK]], 22 July 2012</ref>

In 2013 she appeared twice in the [[BBC Proms]], performing with tenThing at the [[Cadogan Hall]] and also at the [[Royal Albert Hall]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/events/performers/28902631-2ffe-44f7-b7d4-66d8c58f1408/performances | title=BBC Proms }}</ref>

She performed at the [[Australian Festival of Chamber Music]] in 2018,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.cutcommonmag.com/the-young-artists-of-chamber-music-tine-thing-helseth-trumpet/|access-date=7 May 2024|title=The young artists of chamber music: Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet|author=Laura Biemmi|date=25 June 2018|magazine=Cut Common}}</ref> and in 2024 gave a [[master class]] at the [[Australian National Academy of Music]] as well as playing [[Mieczysław Weinberg|Weinberg]]'s Trumpet Concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.<ref name=Limelight />

== Releases ==

Helseth appeared on [[Didrik Solli-Tangen|Didrik Solli-Tangen's]] second single "[[Best Kept Secret (song)|Best Kept Secret]]", taken from Solli-Tangen's debut album ''[[Guilty Pleasures (Didrik Solli-Tangen album)|Guilty Pleasures]]'', which was released on 3 September 2010. In 2012, she released her debut album ''Storyteller'' on [[EMI Classics]], as well as ''10'', the debut album of her brass ensemble, tenThing. Her album ''TINE'', a personal selection of original and transcribed works, was released on 12 March 2013.

==Prizes, contests and awards==
*National Soloist Championship of Norway no-age-limit open class 1st Prize 2004<ref name="trumpetguild">
{{cite web
| publisher=trumpetguild.org
| title=Tine Thing Helseth appointed Statoil Artist
| url=http://www.trumpetguild.org/news/news07/658helsethstatoil.html
| access-date=19 December 2007
}}</ref>
*International Trumpet Competition "[[Théo Charlier]]" Brussels, Belgium 2nd prize 2005<ref name="trumpetguild" />
*Oslo Music Teachers Foundation Prize of Honour 2005<ref name="myspace" />
*[[Yamaha Music Foundation]] Europe Scholarship 2006<ref name="myspace" />
*[[Eurovision Young Musicians 2006]] 2nd place<ref name="myspace" /><ref>
{{cite web
 |publisher   = trumpetguild.org
 |title       = Tine Thing Helseth in Eurovision Young Musicians final
 |url         = http://www.trumpetguild.org/news/news06/564helseth.htm
 |access-date  = 20 December 2007
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20080120014845/http://www.trumpetguild.org/news/news06/564helseth.htm
 |archive-date = 20 January 2008
}}</ref>
*[[The Prince Eugen Culture Prize]] 2006
*[[NRK]] Radio P2 Prize for 2006/2007<ref name="simaxprofile">
{{cite web
 |publisher   = simax.no
 |title       = Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
 |url         = http://www.simax.no/artikkel.php?id=1363
 |access-date  = 20 December 2007
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20080120083534/http://www.simax.no/artikkel.php?id=1363
 |archive-date = 20 January 2008
}}</ref>
* Luitpold Prize of the festival [[Kissinger Sommer]], 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.warnerclassics.com/tine-thing-helseth/bio|title = Tine Thing Helseth &#124; Warner Classics}}</ref>
* [[Spellemannprisen]] for best newcomer, 2007
* Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, 2009

==Discography==
*2007: ''Trumpet Concertos, Haydn, Albinoni, Neruda, Hummel'' – with Det Norske Kammerorkester
*2009: ''Mitt Hjerte Alltid Vanker'' (''My Heart Is Ever Present'')
*2011: ''Storyteller''
*2012: ''10'' – with tenThing
*2013: ''Tine''
*2017: ''Never Going Back''
*2021: ''Magical Memories''
*2022: ''Seraph''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website}}
*{{YouTube|ASB6hFUat4g|Studio recording video}}, [[Trumpet Concerto (Haydn)|Haydn Trumpet Concerto]], 3rd movement

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[[Category:1987 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Norwegian classical musicians]]
[[Category:Norwegian trumpeters]]
[[Category:Musicians from Oslo]]
[[Category:Spellemannprisen winners]]
[[Category:Barratt Due Institute of Music alumni]]
[[Category:21st-century Norwegian trumpeters]]
[[Category:21st-century Norwegian women musicians]]
[[Category:Women trumpeters]]