Tine Thing Helseth
Trumpet & Artistic Director
One of the world's foremost classical trumpeters, and our artistic director. Tine has restored Risør Chamber Music Festival to the top, and you get to reap the benefits.
About the Artist
Tine grew up in a music-loving family and started at age seven in a school band in Oslo. Her journey from Vålerenga's music scene has taken her to all six continents.
She's known for her completely unique sound. You know when Tine is playing—and this makes her one of the world's foremost concert trumpeters. A small curiosity: she performs barefoot on stage. She wants to feel the ground beneath her. No safety net, just music.
As a champion for women in music, she founded tenThing in 2007—ten women on brass showing the world that instruments don't care about gender. The album "She Composes Like a Man" (2024) celebrates composers from Clara Schumann to Florence Price.
Her latest album "Echoes" (2025) is out now.
Concerts
Opening Concert
Artistic Director Tine Thing Helseth invites you to a spectacular opening featuring Haydn, Ravel, and others. Welcome to Risør Chamber Music Festival 2026!
Midsummer Celebration at Torvet
We're inviting the whole city to the main square on the most beautiful summer day of the year. Classical delights and good vibes, plus food and drinks. Welcome!
Mari's Song Treasures
Close your eyes and picture this: Soprano Mari Eriksmoen in a summer dress in a lush green garden, her world-renowned voice filling your entire heart.
Gold Lasts Forever
Quality music endures everything. You can tear and wear, twist and turn, take full liberties with the original - and the quality still shines through.
Back to the Future
Beethoven's string quartet will finally be performed in Risør Church again. But the first part of the concert is crucial to understanding Beethoven's last great work.
Tine with Friends
Tine Thing Helseth's intimate gathering. The concert that sells out fastest every year, which surprises no one. This is a Risør summer distilled to perfection.
The Pioneers
Haydn and Beethoven were trailblazers, but they weren't alone in being first with new ideas and approaches. Here we celebrate those who took the leap.
SkatteKammer'n
This is not a regular concert. It's the start of the weekend with the world's finest musicians letting loose and letting their hair down.
At Home with Solveig & Bjørn
People of Risør open their homes so you can experience chamber music as chamber music was meant to be. Intimate and unfiltered, here you get very close to the artists and the music.
Grand Concert on Stangholmen
Welcome to one of the country's great summer concerts! On an island in Risør's beautiful archipelago, there will be a celebration of folk music and symphony orchestra hand in hand.
Heart Strings
This year’s closing concert is inspired by an intricate emotional life between several great composers. The festival’s final concert plays on the most sensitive strings we have: the heartstrings.
