Performer & researcher based in Oslo & Chicago.

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flyt(t)ende

The performance flyt(t)ende—a stylization of the Norwegian terms flytte (moving) and flytende (fluent)—was conceptualized around the experience of rootlessness and change that follows leaving one's home.

Theresa Coffey: Prelude (sound installation)
T. Coffey: Improvisation after "Poor Wayfaring Stranger"
T. Coffey: Interlude with movement
Alice Humphries: Come Out Closer
Olga Neuwirth: Addio…sognando
T. Coffey: Postlude after "You Are My Sunshine"

Collaborators: Jakob Florea Nøstvik (trombone); Rebecca Coffey (recorded vocal); Anders Svinndal and Mike McCormick (sound technicians); Gunnvà Meinseth (light technician); Maja Hannisdal (videographer); Sigurd Ytre-Arne (video post-production); Solveig Skår (producer)

Premiered October 2023

Things.

  • Research fellow leading the project Becoming with music curation at the Norwegian Academy of Music.

  • Toured with tenThing brass ensemble in 2022.

  • Performed with the Norwegian National Opera, Oslo Philharmonic, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, and others.

  • Master class teacher at Western Illinois University's BrassFest in January 2020.

  • Trumpet fellow with the Oslo Philharmonic from 2016–17.

  • Founded Surge Ensemble in 2017, with a grant from the Norwegian Business School and Norwegian Academy of Music’s Idea Competition for Arts Entrepreneurship.

  • Former marketing analyst for Sprout Social and marketing manager for Chicago Opera Theater.

Past Projects.

Surge
Ensemble.

April 2017
Surge Ensemble was imagined as a genre-ambiguous ensemble whose performances would feel more like casual social gatherings than stiff classical concerts.

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Odd Couples.

May 2017

G. Tartini, Concerto in D Major
G. F. Handel, Eternal Source of Light Divine
A. Melani, Quai bellici accenti ascolti, mio core?
J. Stephenson, Vignettes for trumpet and percussion
D. Sampson, Breakaway for two trumpets and tape

In Paris.

April 2015

H. Tomasi, Concerto
A. Piazzolla (arr. V. Popelka), Oblivion
M. Ravel, Vocalise en forme de habanera
G. Enesco, Legende
A. Hovhannes, Prayer of St. Gregory
A. Piazzolla (arr. T. Coffey), Libertango

Connect.

So excited to share some of the fun portrait work I did with @sophia_hegewald_photo in November. 🤩 I had been following her work for a while and was thrilled when my research took me to Cologne, which gave us the opportunity to collaborate. I was h
Bittersweet to have finished my last PhD research trip to @fraumusicanova in Cologne. 🥲 It’s overwhelming to think of the incredible opportunity I’ve had to meet and learn from amazing performers doing really interesting work. I can&rsq
And that’s that! This week I premiered flyt(t)ende, a curated performance that has taken over a year of experimentation, reflection, and pure artistic will to come to fruition. Threading together works of Meg Bowles (Shapeshifter), Alice Hump
Harvard. 🚩 This week I presented my paper, “Music Mediation as Interface for Artistic Identity” at @harvard.music.department’s Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures conference — three intense and inspiring days of paper s