Ingrid Neset

Ingrid Neset
Birth name	Ingrid Søfteland Neset
Born	1992 (age 24–25) Os, Hordaland
Origin	Norway
Genres	Classical music, jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Flute, piccolo flute, clarinet, piano

Ingrid Søfteland Neset (born 1992 in Os, Hordaland) is an award-winning Norwegian Classical flautist living in Copenhagen. She is the daughter of music teachers guitarist Terje Neset (b. 1959) and pianist Anne Leni Søfteland Sæbø (b. 1961), and the sister of the vocalist Anna Søfteland Neset (b. 1987) and jazz saxophonist Marius Søfteland Neset (b. 1985). She is known from nomerous performances with orchestras like Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and in concerts and cordings (Birds 2013) with her older brother Marius Neset.

Neset picked up the flute at the age of ten and attended the Music program at Langhaugen vgs. (2008–10). She is a part of the talented class "Unge Musikere", of the Griegakademiet, where she has been under guidance of flautist and professor Gro Sandvik, she has attended master classes with some of the leading flutists in the world, like Sharon Bezaly, Ian Clarke, Wissam Boustany, in the summer of 2009 she was invited to join in a flute workshop in Weggis, Switzerland directed by the renowned flautist and flute teacher James Galway, and is currently studying music on the bachelor's program at the Copenhagen Rhythmic Music Conservatory (2010–13).

Neset gave five concerts with the trio 'Jenter fra Bergen' at the 'Fartein Valen Festival' in 2009, played with the Young Symphony Orchestra at the Bergen International Festival, and performed for the Norwegian royal family when they wisited Austevoll the same year. In 2013 she first participated on her brothers album Birds with festival appearances on such as Vossajazz, and there after on the album Escapism (2013) Neset collaborated with the Danish artist Fallulah (Maria Apetri), with appearance on the Isle of Wight Festival in England.

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