Benedicte Torget, Arve Henriksen, Helge Lien
Biography Benedicte Torget, Arve Henriksen, Helge Lien
Benedicte Torget
is a critically acclaimed singer and songwriter, who has been performing since the age of six, on radio and TV, and in concert halls and theatres. Educated at the Music Conservatory in Oslo and the University of Oslo, she has studied styles of improvisation in seventeenth-century music, folk music and jazz. She has collaborated with a number of acknowledged musicians in Norway and abroad. The album “After a Day of Rain” was her first recording of her own songs. In 2014 she and Øystein Sevåg released the album “Karin Boye Songs” for which they won the NOPA Music Prize Reward 2014. Benedicte Torget released the album “Like a Seed Let it Fall" in 2016. Her latest album "7 dialogues" was released autumn 2020 as she toured with her ensemble Benedicte Torget Ensemble.
Benedicte has worked with breathing meditation according to Shunryu Suzuki's method for over 25 years. Her experiences from 7 years in full psychoanalysis learning about the relationship between body, voice and a language beyond our rational consciousness, form the basis for the material in her projects. "You don't find your voice just once. You find your voice again and again. The world changes, everything around us and inside us changes. The creative voice arises in that flow", says Benedicte Torget.
Benedicte Torget established ther own record label "Present Recordings" in 2008. In 20213 and 2023 she received three year sWorking Grant from Arts Council Norway. Benedicte Torget has also received several grants both as a composer and as a singer from The Norwegian Composers’ fund, The Lyric Writers Fund, Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists among others.
