Tine Thing Helseth, 24, started to play the trumpet at the age of 7, and is one of the leading trumpet soloists of her generation. Highlights of last season included orchestral debuts with the Gavle Symphony, NDR Hannover, BBC Scottish, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Swedish Chamber and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestras as well as making her recital debut at the Carnegie Hall, New York, and further recital debuts in Berlin, Brussels and Luxembourg. She also gave her first performance at the Royal Albert Hall as part of Classic FM Live. The 2011/2012 season will see her return to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Danish Radio orchestras, and make debuts with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Hamburg, Kollegium Winterthur Orchestra, the Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen Orchestra and Hong Kong Sinfonietta. In April 2011, Tine Thing Helseth signed an exclusive recording contract with EMI Classics. She will release two albums this season; a solo disc
Storyteller with RLPO and the debut album of her brass ensemble, tenThing. She has also recorded two discs for Simax, the first of which was named Classical Recording of the Year in 2007 by the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. The second CD went gold in the Norwegian classical chart after just three weeks.