Ida Løvli Hidle

As a soloist, Ida Løvli Hidle (b. 1987, Norway) has played with Ensemble Allegria, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Danish National Youth Ensemble, as well as at a number of festivals such as Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Valdres Sommersymfoni, the Kongsberg Jazz Festival and Pulsar in Denmark. She has played international solo recitals in countries such as China, Canada, Belgium and Russia. Her debut concert at the Royal Danish Academy of Music (in 2016) was broadcast in its entirety on Danish radio station P2. Here she performed the commissioned solo concerto, Clashes by Erlend Skomsvoll together with the Danish National Youth Ensemble, and Fachwerk by Sofia Gubaidulina. Gubaidulina is one of several composers who have expressed great enthusiasm for Løvli Hidle's interpretations of her music. Hidle subsequently contributed to the editing of the new edition of Gubaidulina's Et Expecto — a solo sonata for accordion. Løvli Hidle has also premiered works by, among others, Synne Skouen, Trygve Brøske and Mats Gustavsson (Sweden). From 2016 to 2018, she received the Norwegian government grant for young musicians. International awards include 3rd prize in the International Competition of Bajan and Accordion Players (Moscow 2015), and 1st prize in the Rotary International Accordion Competition (Ghent, Belgium, 2014).
  Løvli Hidle is also a versatile chamber musician. Her virtually unlimited repertoire ranges from contemporary music to baroque, opera, jazz and folk music. She has collaborated with a number of well-known artists and orchestras such as Lise Davidsen, Tora Augestad, NOSO Sinfonietta (North Norwegian Opera og Symphony Orchestra) and the Odense Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared on several CD releases including those with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Susanna Wallumrød, Erlend Apneseth and Skadedyr. In the autumn seasons of 2016 and 2018, she was Kapellmeister at the opera in Malmö, Sweden.