Terje Isungset Ice Quartet
“It was unlike anything I have ever seen before.” Audience feedback
Terje Isungset - ice drums, ice percussion, ice horns, iceofone
Amalie Holt Kleive - vocals, ice percussion & water
Julie Rokseth - ice harp
Toivo Fjose - ice bass
Mathias Grønsdal - sound design
Ina Charlotte Moe - ice logistics
The ice music pioneer, Terje Isungset, returns to the UK with his exquisite quartet featuring voice, ice harp, ice horn, iceophone, ice percussion and ice bass.
This ice concert is a tribute to the most important thing in the whole world - nature - and is based on music from his albums Winter Songs and Beauty of Winter, alongside new material from their Ice Quartet album released in November 2024.
The instruments are made during Isungset’s annual Ice Music Festival in Norway. They are carved and crafted using only natural frozen ice from the lakes.
Prepare to be transported by the extraordinary, beautiful and ethereal sounds of ice.
Tour produced by Sound UK.
“The world’s first and only ice musician.” CNN
“It’s a chiming, intimate and utterly beautiful world of sound.” BBC Music
Audience feedback:
“A once in a lifetime experience.”
“One of the best concerts I have ever been to. Certainly the most unique experience. Absolutely loved it.”
“It was unlike anything I have ever seen before.”
“One of the strangest and most memorable things I have ever heard. Wonderful.”
Terje Isungset’s work is visual, energetic and unique. He is an internationally acclaimed drummer and composer. Since the late 1980’s, he has combined natural elements in his music through the use of wood, stones, metal and other natural materials. In 1999, Terje was commissioned to write music for a concert under a frozen waterfall at Lillehammer, Norway. He decided to use elements from the river itself as musical instruments in his composition; stones, wood and finally – ice. Terje explains, “I took the sound from underneath the waterfall, and then I hit the ice. I thought it was so beautiful. It was like falling in love.”
Discovering the sounds of natural ice opened up a whole new range of sonic possibilities for Terje, his ice journey had begun. Since then he has toured world-wide with his unique concept and, since 2006, run his world famous Ice Music Festival in Norway. Terje released the world’s first Ice Music album in 2000, and has since released 10 more.