Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer

Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer was born in Tromsø, Norway, and received her master degree in music from the Grieg Academy in Bergen. She also studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Austria. Meyer is a freelance performer and explorer of sound with a vocal range of 5 octaves and does concerts and vocal performances in Norway and throughout Europe. Synne Skouen has written several works for her, including: “Rárier for en kjole - changing…

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Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer was born in Tromsø, Norway, and received her master degree in music from the Grieg Academy in Bergen. She also studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Austria. Meyer is a freelance performer and explorer of sound with a vocal range of 5 octaves and does concerts and vocal performances in Norway and throughout Europe. Synne Skouen has written several works for her, including: “Rárier for en kjole – changing identities”, a non-verbal a capella mini opera specially written for Meyer’s solo voice and a youth choir. Regisseur: Solvi Edvardsen.

Meyer is soloist with the Polish Grzech Piotrowski world orchestra. She is also a member of the ethnomusic group AKKU: Lars Andreas Haug (tuba), Elfi Sverdrup (vocal), Grzech Piotrowski (saxophones) and Knut Aalefjær (percussion). She teaches at the Norwegian Academy of Music and at the Ole Bull Academy.

November 2010