Trumpet, Touring and Ten Girls! Tine Thing Helseth talks to Sarah Willis live in Berlin on the Horn Hangouts about her life with her trumpet and the TenThing girls.
Berlin November 2013
Transcript
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Hi everybody welcome back to Berlin I’ve been away for a long time it seems we’ve been on a trip to Asia we just got back last night and I’m really really happy and proud to welcome our guest it’s ladies month in November as you know our first lady of the month is Tina Ting hset welcome to the horn
Hangouts we’re so excited to have you here thank you I’m I’m very excited to be here and you came extra all the way to Berlin so that we could hang out live and not not on a webcam definitely and then I had a good excuse to have a weekend in Berlin that’s fine how do you manage to
Look So Glamorous after having got up at 4:15 in the morning well I thank you for the compliment I don’t know if I look glamorous but we try our best one tries One’s best it’s great to have you here um last time you were in Berlin you were with with a really nice um open shoulder dress uh at the at the echo classic
Awards where you won best newcomer you wouldn’t be wearing a a summer dress out here today would you it’s a bit gray but uh it’s freezing it’s a bit freezing but it’s even colder in Norway so I’m I’m fine yeah okay what you that was a huge honor actually to win that award definitely I was it was so great to be there and at the award ceremony
I was just just it was just surreal standing next to d barom in the lift and it know it’s just like surreal so many great artists and and I met so many amazing people so it was a huge honor to be I saw some nice party photos of you partying with some of my illustrious colleagues it looked like you all you guys had a really nice time time we did well
Tina I would not there is there are so many questions that have come in here on the chat today it’s really quite outrageous from all over the place thank you so much everybody for writing in um I’m hopefully going to get to as many of them as I can I of course have some questions for Tina as well because
I’ve been dying to hang out with her for quite a long time we actually only met once very briefly it feels like I’ve known you for ages but we we met in Oslo at the Academy just like in the hall for the first time yeah for a couple of minutes almost yeah but you’ve been you are so much pres you have so much online presence it’s like like
I feel I know you already and your fans feel like you’re there Tina um is it’s is it quite tiring for you to keep you’re you’re so great at social media your blogging your um your Facebooking your twit tweeting everything you really put yourself out there and um it’s a great thing you’ve got 20,000 Facebook friends how do you keep up with it all
I I was I’m amazed first well I’m just so happy that people you know that they want to that they’re interested in what I’m doing and yeah czy I’m amaz thank you so much it’s just so great um but um no I’m I think it’s I think it’s fun uh I wouldn’t I wouldn’t do it if if it was too much of a hassle for something it feels very normal to me to do it and
I like to I mean I live this very strange life why you call it strange life yeah well it’s it’s just like it’s it’s on the road all the time it’s traveling I’m a lot alone I I experience uh I’m I’m lucky to get to experience many places of the world and and and I just want to share a bit of this of this lifestyle because normally people they see you when you go on stage kind of that’s when they see you when you play but then it’s all these things going on
Backstage and and that’s what people see the most interested in yeah and and that’s what I remember as a as a kid and that’s actually what I am well if I think about other professions you know that’s what I’m most sometimes most interest in what’s going on behind the scenes kind of you know get to know the the the personality or something of this so so yeah a little bit i’ like to share a little bit of do you think it’s something that classical music really needs these days is this sort of a little view into their favorite star’s life well well
I don’t know I mean um I’ve also taken kind of quite a stand that it’s like I I show a lot but I’m still you know I still have a a private limit kind of thing on what I do but tell me about it but it’s like you know but then but then it’s like I don’t know
I think it’s up to every single artist if it feels natural for you and if you do it I mean you’re great at it too I that’s why you tell about it yeah but I love like when you now in Asia like see like small you know photos coming up and like follow meent I love that so um
I I don’t know if it feels natural for for an artist to do it then then do it and if it doesn’t then you know we don’t have to but but I I think it’s I think it’s fun and I like to have those small you know that they they can ask you questions or comment back and like it’s yeah
I just interaction interaction I I think it’s important these days I mean obviously the most important thing to us is the music but the fact that we can share that online as well and also a little bit of how we are as as people I mean I I think it’s great what you do and and how you put it out there you don’t only play great but you’re great social media person as well so you’re perfect for our horn hangout and um gosh look at all these questions um let’s just first of all just do a tiny little bit of
Tina Ting hit background because actually guys you see this that is Tina and her mother Tina playing I don’t know and all the mess in my room the mess tell us just tell us in a few words most people can Google this stuff um I don’t usually like to ask what you can Google but tell tell us exactly how you got started and what sort of an influence your mom was yeah well this is actually before
I even started for real because my mom well she placed the trumpet as a as a hobby and I think I heard it you know while I was still in her what do you say inside tum you know tummy yeah and um so it’s just always been a presence in my life to trumpet playing and then um
I started to play for real when I was seven uh with a friend of my mom um that’s placed TR in the Opera Orchestra and know had the so I was really lucky to have you know very good teacher from the start um and I had her until I was 14 and then I started with the teacher
I have now but my but I mean I should also say in Norway we have a very strong wind band and BR band tradition uh so a lot of my friends played in the school band and I started there as well and I don’t know you started as a sort of collective trumpet player so you started from a band and moved into this into
The Soloist world yeah actually I started to play B before I started in the band and I also I I did start to play the piano when I was five uh I don’t know how it is around the world or in Germany but yeah and also it’s like we have this school that you can put your parents they have to sign you up before you’re born you to make you to kind of this the the government has this kind of local school so you can go into so
I started to play piano but I don’t know then I started to play the TR it was much more fun sorry sorry I wish that I had you know continued play the piano because it’s everybody says that it’s so useful everybody says that if you’re out there and you’re playing the piano practice it because I wish I could continue to play it
I wish that I’d carried on to carried on playing because uh it’s yeah anyway yeah so you um you played the CH you played in uh really early on your mom inspired you to do that you played in your wind bands um you pretty quickly were a soloist I saw I read about you standing age 10 in front of a of an orchestra or a band the first time yeah yeah know
I I was I don’t know it was just well in Norway we have you know this great Trumpeter ol Anson which I’m sure you all know uh and that and he’s actually um a friend of my mom so I kind of knew about him and and and had seen him of course it that was an inspiration in that sense that
I knew that it was possible so that I saw that he existed and traveled around the world playing the trumpet I thought I want to do that and then it’s very um I don’t know it’s very strange for me to think back because it feels like this was just what I was supposed to do and then I’ve just been very lucky and
I’m actually able to do it kind of it’s just been it’s just happened in I don’t know somebody already asked a question my friend Kendall gray um hi Kendall how you doing he wanted to know actually how did you make the jump from a good young young player to soloist because actually officially on paper you’re still a student
I am I don’t have any actually not on paper there no papers there’s no papers I know that’s still I’m I’m missing some exams for my everything basically Bachelor and Masters and everything um one day I’ll I’ll have my diploma uh well it’s a very trick it’s it’s hard question I don’t know when that kind of happened it just happened is it true that that um that your record company discovered you playing a recital here in
Berlin well actually kind of yes I mean this was uh so this is was when Emi that’s now Warner um so I had kind of before that released two CS in in Norway on a Norwegian label called sex so my hide in and H disc and also a Christmas album and then um I don’t know where they kind of discovered me but the they came to
Berlin I just out there actually in the building over there in the in the biote the library the State Library yeah I did the recyle old as well it’s almost the filon yeah it looks kind of the same um and that’s where we kind of talked about repertoire and that’s where we decided what the repertoire for my first album
Storyteller with them would be yeah yeah well I mean it’s great to be discovered at such a young age there’s this um people sort of are talking about the blonde trumpet uh Revolution because there’s Ali Allison Bolam out there as well and then you come along and um and they’re really sort of glamming it up the image of a trumpet player
I know you’re asked this everywhere um about being a girl soloist and feeling any sort of uh stereotype pressure that you have to break down this barrier of of trumpet being a man’s instrument but I guess with you and Allison out there there’s no way it’s a man’s instrument anymore and you said um in one of your interviews that you just grew up thinking it’s totally normal yeah until you left and you went out to
Europe and you realized oh there’s not so many girls out there you know it’s true I mean in Norway it’s it’s normal it’s common I mean it wasn’t strange for me at all I mean my mom then plays and my first teacher was a woman and so for me it was just the most natural thing and I didn’t really think about it as strange until
I was a bit older and and traveled around and especially then when I did um the Eurovision Young musician which I in when I was 18 which I could kind of call my International breakthrough kind I see is that on YouTube I didn’t see that I don’t think it’s on YouTube it was like to see that I played that
I was one of the most amazing experiences ever um played the first moment of hiding with the Venus symphonic at the that house plots you know the outside of the city hall 50,000 people whatever and then just yeah it was of course it was a competition so I was um incredibly nervous beforehand but then what I was so happy about was that
I kind of managed when I came out on stage to just enjoy it I remember during the cenum uh and it was it was tram you know going by and get to see the kind of the you know theater in front of you and and then and I was just thinking because it was so quiet and you know when
I played the CL it’s was only me not the orchestra anymore and then I was just thinking here here I am standing playing you know for and it’s just all these thousands of people being quiet and now it’s just one of the greatest you know kicks you you you do you get nervous that’s cuz that’s already a question someone’s already asked that
I definitely I will be getting to your questions I promise there soone coming in I think we’re just after our little chat we’re going to have a 10-minute slot I’m just going to fire questions at Tina because I can see so many good ones but always uh one of my hangout friends will always ask do you get nervous and how do you combat the nerves of course
I get nervous uh sometimes incredibly nervous but I I just I’m I’m trying to kind of just focus on the fact that I know this and I I ner the nerves are well it should it’s such a negative word it should be positive actually because we need them because if we’re not nervous then we will not you know we will not be able to have that kind of
PE before perform that’s right the adrenaline yeah the adrenaline and you get in the focus I get in you know really focused and I’m in my little bubble and and I’m not I’m normally quite chaty but I’m not uh before I’m playing you know it’s just one word answer like yes no no that’s good to know I before well if
I do that then I’m quite nervous um but I’m just I’m focusing on the positive Parts you know that I know this I I know the music I’m going into play I I know the situation and what a wonderful thing that that all these people have come to listen to me and and you know all the other musicians
I’m playing with and and they don’t want be any harm no hopefully not and it’s just it’s just a such a nice thing they they’ve come here to listen to music to enjoy themselves and to just have a good time and and and it’s a good philosophy think positively we had we had a hangout about stage fight and that was one of the tips of really turning it into something positive because it is it is one of the most amazing things that can never be explained actually the feeling of of standing and playing uh well there’s several kind of things in it playing with the
Orchestra or the musicians you’re playing with that kind of interaction and the that Unique Kind of conversations or you know things that we have without saying anything or just just the communication we have and then also with the audience I mean the audience is everything in in the performance if they w then everything’s different so yeah you love doing it
I can tell I’m just so I’m just so amazed I I had breakfast with you this morning on YouTube um I was I was up I was awake at 2:00 already see we just got back from um from Asia so it was well it’s okay it’s I hope some friends of mine are watching in in Japan I know a few friend of mine said that they would be so um but so
I I had you on at breakfast and one of the first things I heard you do on YouTube was um was one of these Christmas things you did with a band you start off with these really low slow lines and I’m like God tin you’re amazing because you were just so cool in a TV studio I mean it’s just uh yeah well
I don’t know I just yeah I’m I don’t know I just do you just do it do something well but you know of course we know all these things there but I’ve also seen I mean just to just to make that clear I can see on the videos that I look it it all looks very comfortable and stuff but it doesn’t feel that way that’s the that is the secret to a true there’s a lot of things going on in here and and feel you know it’s it doesn’t always um look as easy at it as it no doesn’t feel as easy as it looks
That’s part of being a professional sometimes you feel absolute rubbish but sometimes sometimes when I feel absolute rubbish that’s when I play best it’s it’s good you you really can’t sometimes I come and really prepared and it it’s a total disaster it’s strange there’s no there a lot of things appear I think the way you’re just like okay then what the you know
I’m what the my mother’s watching yeah I not do that okay so we um we really didn’t talk too much about all your background but you can Google you you can look on your Facebook you can tweet you can look on your tweets so all that stuff is is is out there so we want actually the stuff you can’t
Google um for example Sylvester Sylvester who I think is in Singapore Sylvester you I think your question was the first on the chat he said if you had a second chance to play another instrument what would it be good question it’s a very good question I would probably actually I would probably not play anything maybe be a footballer no um uh
I’ll probably a singer actually a singer footballer okay tin would be a singer but actually to get back to the real things actually Tina is a footballer at heart is that true yeah well I don’t know I’ve played football for many years I come from a from a place in Oslo called waringer which is like the place for football in no um and so
I kind of had to and I loved it I absolutely loved it I don’t know if I was any good but I really just Tred you know try my best and stuff but then it got serious and too many practices and I couldn’t combine it with playing but I’m I’m really happy that I did it your favorite footballer well see that’s something we can’t
Google yeah that’s something you will be able to from today yeah who’s your favorite football who my favorite footballer well it’s hard but I’m a lot of people say this but I I do actually I I really like see I knew you were going to say that I don’t know how I knew he just seems like such a nice guy too and how are
Norway doing at the moment for them well they’re not very good to be honest sorry sorry sorry nor way okay let’s change the subject I think we will really now take a few um a few question well the girls team is the girls team the Norwegian girls team is really good sorry yeah no it’s okay Norway Norway does all the things that in every other country the boys do
Norway is really good at football Norway has this amazing uh brass on emble called uh tting which Tina runs and she plays with nine other girls we’ll get on to that a little bit later um yeah so nor is actually a Scandinavian General it’s really good for the girls I’m impressed so um Jonathan lman ask what is the most important quality that one needs in order to become a professional musician wow um these are really yes really really good questions um the horn hangout audience is really really in there
I would say that actually that you you need you need talent but it’s not for necessarily just for playing it’s like you need you need to have well actually to be honest you need to have a voice you need to have something to say you have to a voice but also be able to sing yeah you have to be able to kind of tell people something
I’m talking a lot about this telling stories and stuff but you have to kind of yeah you have to have not only be able to play everything you know nice and technically perfect whatever that’s expected these days yeah yeah it is and but you need to be able to to kind of put yourself you forget about the instrument and just just um express yourself in my voice and
I think that’s but also you need talent for all the other stuff that has nothing Well it has everything to do with the music but it’s like for you know practicing and focusing and all these things are also very important what I mean with that’s expected it’s a silly thing to say of course it’s expected that you know you’re you’re good but there are so many good players out there there are just not so many really really the players that go that tiny little bit of extra and get out there and do what you do and turn into world famous soloists and um and those
Are the ones I think with the voice like you say so that’s a really important quality and that’s something that I think well personally for me I work on that all the time and that’s and that’s that’s what I love about playing trying to express me and and and my voice and get beyond the instrument and just really really try and develop that the whole and that’s a journey that we never ends you know there’s some really great things on the chat you’re going to love this you know even if
I don’t get to your question question on the chat um Tina will get a copy of the chat so she she will see all of your questions and afterwards on this she’ll stay on for a few more minutes and up so there’s some great things going on here um I’ll ask the the the serious ones first Sing
Sing is that how you pronounce it Sing Sing s i n g like that sing singing sing she says if you could settle down to one Orchestra which would it be in why I guess she have to say also phon playing an orra Brant phon the Brant phonica why not no I don’t know uh yeah well I
I haven’t really thought about um I I like being a soloist for now so we’ll see okay but I mean it’s the Berlin cold then I’ll see what I can do I’ll see what I can do um a good question just because I just got back on tour and this really sucks having to keep on in shape on the road
Chris X in the Netherlands says do you have specific routines to cope with the rigors of international traveling check her Facebook page as a great photo of all her Trumpets on the bed well I I don’t think there are any kind of way of I just do you know I just have to be able to practice um and then it’s not always how much
I practice it’s how I practice and and sometimes it’s it’s all in in your hands and how you kind of feel because sometimes you you travel for like almost you know 24 hours and then you haven’t played for 24 hours and your head is like completely and it really affects how you feel but if you just try to not think too much about it and just
I mean and what about routine do you stick your practice mute in and well I try not to I mean I remember in the beginning when I started to travel when I was like 18 I was so afraid of playing in hotel room I was like oh I’m probably disturbing everyone and I need a room and I was so but now
I just don’t care anymore I just so sorry for those of you who to stay next to me in hotel uh I just I just play and and normally no one complains you know of course I don’t do it in like 10 or in the evening I try to do it in hours in the middle of the day people are away but sometimes they just have to and and
I mean it’s it’s not I don’t do it for ages I don’t I don’t practice that much actually I mean so it’s it’s yeah yeah okay okay but I mean Trump and warmup is not nice to listen to had a room next to Gabor on the tour and uh well I mean his trumpet warm Up’s pretty impressive but it does go on for a long time and it’s it’s
I I I hate listening to it so yeah um actually buzzing and stuff like that I saw an interview with you on red carpet here for the Echo and and Tina’s like ’s like I the interviewer even suggested you buzz something it’s just very incredible question to ask but I thought okay I was going to find out if that’s really true you can’t
Buzz I can’t buz I [Music] know how on Earth do you play the trumpet [Music] then I can bust but that’s not how I do when I play I I just do this and it comes [Music] right you’re not a big warmer uper of buz I’m the buz I’m not the buzzer I do the mouthpiece a lot and you know what this comes on to our absolute our standard horn hangout question from
Wesley what mouthpiece do you use I use one B one in a qu C for all except all my instruments except Piccolo then I use the 7D okay that means nothing to me whatsoever but uh that’s fine thank you we have oh there was another thing as some who wanted to know I think Sylvester again wanted to know if you’re going to be playing the barock trumpet before long well actually yes
I am I haven’t I haven’t i’ I’ve just started I’ve played like once or twice um but I’m going to do some projects in 2015 which I’m really excited about which is why I um kind of decided to do it because it’s I mean there are so many I mean great barck Trumper players out there I mean both those who do that mostly uh and also you know like
Allison and stuff that really do this she was here was yeah she does it so well so it’s like if you know if I want to do it then I I I want to do it well too so I really have to you know practice it and and prepare but it’s yeah it’s a really really nice project so
I’m I’m I’m looking forward to 2015 so yes I am great there’s some really illustrious people watching this hangout Steve and me has said hi and he’s watching hi Steve and Steve wants to do a euphonium chat in the new year you are on you are booked that’s great and freudis is watching oh hi Fus that’s really nice
Fus is watching and freus wants to know what you are knitting at the moment oh well actually I’m not can you show this this uh I’m actually well I did knit in the beginning uh we I started this on a tenting tour and we were living together for on the bus for two weeks every 10 girls on a bus on a bus everyone started knitting it wasn’t really wees every we were talking about stereotypes of men playing the trumpet women knitting on a bus now come on how much how more stereotype yeah so sorry about that
I just got like an epidemic of knitting but then I went to but then a good friend of mine R horn player in watching it’s all because of her that I started crocheting so the first thing I did was this can you see this a he’s so cute it’s all because of R she’s great so and then
I started crocheting that’s right I’m a little penguin yeah made that I made that so is this going to be a bed a bed sheet for him or what maybe that it was supposed started this morning on the flight it was supposed to be one of those oven Globes thing but it’s so it’s too small could be a star for me for
Christmas so maybe yeah maybe a bedding maybe I’ll make it full I don’t know well freus now you know thise this is what tin is doing this is the sort of stuff you don’t get um when you Google um that’s what I love about the horn Hangouts Okay so they’re all watching that’s great and you have um
I just saw someone alen says hi from Oslo love watching you alen is it alen alen like uh from yes froming yeah I think a lot of the girls from tenting are watching hia ising I think is watching Lena has actually been great Lena is the horn player in tenting and uh I I wrote to Lena to find out a little bit of background information she’s the newest member of the group so but she’s the only one
I know she had like a crash start on like 10 days in China with us that’s her starts so we really got to know each other you are a dream to interview because I have a picture of you in China which uh chean you ready I have a picture of you from China these girls spent two weeks in
China on the road 10 days and umena says you’re a very natural leader but you really almost lost it checking in sometimes for Inland Chinese flute flights um also after a long day of rehearsal this is a very Charming photo thank you Lena for sending us this thank you Lena we’ll CH about this now okay so um
I like that picture that’s also not something like a crazy well yeah well thank you we we like to show our horn hang up people um pictures that one can’t see CH is it’s just very different in Norway um I have a nice picture actually of of all you girls all the tenting girls here’s another one um so of all the girls here those are your girls your t girls my girls you played at the proms this summer we did it was
H amazing I I had to I can’t believe two concerts at the proms this summer which was like yeah a dream come true and we did a chamber prom in the kaban hall with the girls um it was just one of the greatest experience I I actually got really emotional I remember like getting on stage because before we went in
I was like I love you all so much I’m so proud of you you know this is going to be so and then we came on and it was like such a warm like everyone was so excited and such a warm atmosphere I almost got tears in my eyes kind of thinking that we started this little Ensemble as a just for fun you know like six years ago and suddenly we’re like playing the pr it’s like surreal for for those of you that don’t know uh tenting there’s masses of of of great there a great uh
YouTube uh library for you girls you couldn’t get the prom thing on there it’s been taken off unfortunately but I happened to see it I saw it in the archive and I thought they said they were going to play Carmen so I sat there and I thought okay the music started and these girls start walking around the stage while they play they don’t only play play they play by memory and you choreograph it as well and how on
Earth you this actually it came about and we wanted to do things like this do a bit of you know playing for memory and then we thought we’ll move a bit around do stuff like that and then we had this two years ago we had this this tour where we were on the bus living on the bus and played like 17 concerts in or 18 concerts in 3 week three weeks um and had workshops and stuff and um this was more of like a show we put together with like video things and we made like a story out of it we told the story about
How tenting became tenting and we showed pictures and we had video we were dressed up in like uniforms we did you know a lot of fun stuff and that’s where we did uh we had an actor um kind of help us choreograph stuff and that’s when we started to do a bit of choreograph what happens if one person forgets the steps that there’ll be a a brass crash yeah well actually it’s not actually very strict
I mean we’re we’re a bit flexible so it’s not like um it hasn’t happened yet but we had we once when because in the middle of the habanera mar cames to comes towards me we do the melody together and we goes down like this in one concert I almost fell because I did a bit of a wrong and
I almost kind of that’s when you go down back to back we go like back to back and then we kind of there’s a nice picture of that on your on your Facebook on the T Facebook page of you oh no on the blog on the on one of your blogs yeah the Instagram thing I think and stuff yeah so but it’s so it’s uh it’s
I don’t know we just want to show uh that it’s fun yeah to perform you certainly do that I mean it’s really it’s great I want to come and hear you guys live so thank you to Lena for all the background information she said to ask you about your knitting which we done she said to to talk about you being a natural leader because she says after long days of rehearsal you still manage to keep the energy up and it it comes you always have the final say no matter how much gossiping and laughing is going on you manag that she also said you had
Your first driving lesson the other day did oh my God the first time ever behind the wheel was last weekend last weekend yes oh and now actually this Monday was my well on Sunday my mom kind of just showed me how to start the car and just you know and drive like 200 meters on the parking lot on never learn how to drive with your parents it’s a disaster well actually my mom is a very good driver so and she was suddenly very patient with me then so thank you uh and then uh and then
I had a driver lcon uh no driver lesson the day after was so much fun oh my I loved it so I’m I’m I’m hoping that one day I’ll get my driver’s license and cool I can borrow your mini I you can borrow my mini you saw it yeah I love my mini we’re going to be going on a little tour
Berlin in my mini yeah but my my dream when I was a kid was to have a mini so we are going to go back to the questions because the problem is I could talk to you for hours but we are planning on talking for hours because you’re going to spend the weekend actually with me here in
Berlin so I’m really looking forward try some Duets and stuff like that oh going to be fun um you got to try my Google glasses as well see how looking forward to that yeah that’s going to be cool so let’s get back to some more of the questions U my friend Midori from Japan is watching hi Midori hi and she says she like your blue nails oh yeah today they are blue
I was thinking maybe it’s a bit too but then I I I thought they were fun you are cool Tina that is just there’s nothing else we can we can say um mouthpiece okay we don’t Daniel says Nordic musicians have a very unique sound do you think the beautiful nature of Norway inspired yourself well thank you for that’s a very good question well actually um it is very beautiful
I mean of course I’m extremely biased but the nature in Norway is really really nice the west coast and stuff but um I don’t know maybe I’ve I’ve been asked about this a lot and also there are a lot of trumpet players from from Norway and Scandinavia I mean classical field you have hokan Harden and and then and then we also have three of the greatest jazz jums in the world um and and um and a lot of people are asking me about this kind of and also then the trumpet sound and the
Nordic sound I don’t know actually I I just I just have my sound I would say it’s my voice uh and the way that I just it’s it’s me it’s it’s my ID it’s it’s who I am but uh but maybe there is something just we do have kind of a bit of a similar in the similar area
I agree so schol as well isn’t it I mean you studied in I’ve heard that sound from when I was a kid still studying in yeah I’m still studying actually but it’s like uh I’ve heard that sound when I was a kid so you know Wesley in Brazil says we are connected hope to receive your visit so you make a mega concert
I would love to come to BR that’s nice and um uh inorg is watching in Oslo another tenting inber hi when’s the next concert with tenting it’s actually not until February so we had the last of this season actually the promps in August and in February we go to Moscow and March we come to Germany uh Marin is watching too and hi and she’s still she asked if she still knitting she’s just finished a and iron is watching too oh that’s goodon is her daughter hi iron hi and
Marin has just finished the sweater this is such a girly hangout I love it blue fingernails knitting I love it yeah and someone M has just written girls and look oh I like that face thank you guys is it possible to play football and play the trumpet at the same time very funny I haven’t tried no um
Todd from Texas wants to know Tina have you ever played or considered playing another genre such as Jazz well you do I do play a lot of different stuff I mean I play I have this kind of I don’t know I have this kind of philosophy for myself that music is music no matter what it is I
I actually kind of hate that we all have to kind of have to put everyone in like boxes this is what you do this is what you do because all in Know music is universal language it’s more maybe more like different styles and more like dialects or something you know it’s it’s all we can all communicate we can do stuff so if it’s music that
I like and and and like to play and would love to play and also think that I do you know quite well I don’t want to do something that I think I don’t do well then I just do it but how do you do you did you grow up with this sort of music I mean what I know you’re a huge
Spice Girls fan but you don’t play in a Spice Girl site maybe actually you tting as Vice girls of the of the classical music world no but it’s I think yeah I don’t come from a classical music home actually I mean we had everything at home and I had in in my windbound we played everything from you know
Abba and queen and Eric Clapton to to marches and Mozart and big bands and you know all kinds of music so so I didn’t grew up in a strictly classical home and and um what I love so I have tenting but I also have this quintet um tthq or like te El at quintet tthq for short and there we just play play whatever we want to play so it can be in a concert with us you can hear everything from from
Bach to Beach Boys to P Sola to some modern rock to some you know we just do whatever we we like uh Eric wants to he says hello from Kentucky please make a jewet album together oh that would be there we go that’s a project for the project and Simon from Yorkshire has written good for Tina he can’t
Buzz either so we two them there’s a lot of um a lot of stuff going out there actually one of my favorite questions I’ve seen going on Ed has wants to know what your favorite karaoke song is who wants to know this eded Ed is it Ed is it you Ed is it my manager hi Ed if it’s you no
I love well I’ve done Cari actually just once I didn’t know this this but I loved it and I was totally like this is something I want to do more um if I had known this we would have done because in Japan there’s obviously a lot of Orchestra karaoke going on of course some of them I know what my favorite was it was probably
I did it my way we can do that one New York New York New York we did more like I think we did some Dancing Queen we did yeah we did some ABA then we did some more like everything from Spice Girls to to T Swift and then the old Jolie Joie you know those kind of things yeah
I don’t know so the Spice Girl fans I mean that would be also something to maybe do a do something you like these collaborations do other people you would really desperately like to do a collaboration with well yeah of course I mean I don’t know it’s just there are so many great musicians in every field that would be amazing to work with yeah yeah it’s a very tactful answer which doesn’t give me anything to go on like a politi answer you’ve obviously done your media training
Ed have you’ve been telling her how to answer questions very tactfully and non non-specifically um oh Paxman I know Paxman is man is my friend in Melbourne and he’s watching us it’s very late there he wants to know when you’re coming to play with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra oh well I can really recommend it I love to come to
Melbourne I think I do have some plans of Australia though in a couple of Seasons ahead yeah and Lena’s just written and says please don’t be mad about the photo it just photo Tina just shows your wonderful personality thank you that was a nice compliment so it’s okay no I’m not mad not at all don’t worry no no
Lena I did ask her before if that’s allowed and yeah if you had the chance to choose which would you prefer football or music I think that’s music of course Vagner Felix who are your references on the trumpet I think he means who are your your favorite trumpet players well I I don’t know to be honest when
I grew up I listen mostly to other players and not I mean not trumpet players um some more singers and pianists in faros but of course I mean moris Andre and you know those kind of things there so many wonderful there’s so many yeah and and what what I really like though is that um it’s good that because we’re not that many trumpet soloists uh around there’s not room for that many
I mean but um so I’m honored to be part of a very exclusive little gang what I really like though is that um we all are very different which is you know the best thing because then we we we show different aspects of our instrument and also uh you know talking about commissioning works and stuff then if a composer writes for me it will be a different piece than if he writes for hokan or
Allison or S car for you know wherever and and that’s what is great for them future trumpet generations and the repertoire I mean I it’s a privilege and like just amazing to think about that I in a very small way can contribute to to how the kind of in which directions the trumpet rep goes well you started so early you know age 26 if
I’m allowed to mention ages on not allowed to mention my age but I can mention your age but you’ve got a long time in front of you and and that’s what I’m sure the trumpet world is really hoping like what Hawkin done for for for the repto it’s great and it’s it’s just it’s wonderful you know I’ve already done a couple of commissions and and there’s several coming up and
I I just I love this aspect of it to be able to work what about writing your own stuff I just asked because Mike has asked if you’ve ever traveled to a place that inspired you to write a song I don’t know if you write yourself I have well actually I did a lot when I was a kid we had we had a musical in school that
I wrote all the music to very it’s very I wouldn’t really but pop songs I was yeah I was I’m bit of a pop person actually um your favorite bands go on tell us oh my favorite bands um well right now I’m listening a lot to this um I don’t know Lord lordy how do you say her name
I don’t know she’s like young lordy lordy lordy Lord this is a great Swedish Thing Called Linea henrion which is cool and um we have some great Norwegian stuff and then was was just a lot of different different do you actually listen to music I mean I tend to not have any music on at all when I
I listen a lot to music actually uh yesterday when was over for dinner yesterday then I had like just p and stuff in the back I I often have a lot of music in the background but uh but but but sometimes well right now I have this crazy era of like Brams first he been he’s a really good pop star yeah never sorry but like
BRS because normally it’s a lot of not classical I’m listening to then just sometimes I get complet completely hooked so it’s been Browns one going for a week now in Loop great on my iPhone great like to hear that Lord is Australian says astonishingly hat some Jen she’s great yeah Lord is Australian good that’s what he wanted to to answer but
I have written a song that was we on my Christmas album oh that’s yours one of the one of my one of the songs angels dance I think is um called in English it’s my a song I wrote okay so I I had a question for me yeah I have a question could you imagine playing in an orchestra having been doing the daytoday heavy orchestral repertoire stuff um sitting there playing your part maybe not being as creative as you’d like to be with that doing what the conductor says could you imagine doing that well a lot of people has asked me that and they asked
Me also in the beginning of my career um because when I was Oh I thought I was going to be I was thought I was being really original here no but it is original but like actually in an interview no one has asked me before so it’s never it’s more like in conversations um because it has been for instance the principal
Trumpet of the a field was was that that position was available um I was only 18 so I was way too young anyway but I mean it has been been going on in my in my teacher Arnold and he is the co-principal in the Phil so you know it’s it’s it’s been there but I just to be honest uh right now
I can’t see that right now um what about teaching but teaching is um is great uh and I love doing I do a lot of master classes when I’m around which I love I absolutely love uh but I it’s huge responsibility to take on a student though and I’m so much away um and all that I just
I just I just enjoy so much being able to be a solist right now so maybe at one point I will settle down and play an orchestra and teach have 10 children and be a normal person be a normal person yeah I don’t know how that is Norwegian girls have a lot of lot of kids very early
I’ve noticed tting now that’s full full of babies popping up babies all the time we have we have baby number eight on the way now in The Ensemble not bad they certainly and they’re all young I mean I mean not the babies the girls is the youngest and she’s three years younger than go on then Lena get a move on and then so we’re all in 10 years in between the eldest and the youngest okay gosh good
Jonathan lman asked about your opion opinion about teaching does your excess success and he says incredible success in inspire you to pass on the knowledge and experience you I mean you’ve done quite a lot of master classes I love master classes I love that kind of little cardi you just now yeah was oh they were so nice if any of you watching
I really enjoy and sa heard your master closet St Olaf in Minnesota oh great yeah that was also a like nice very nice master class I remember I just like to kind of show I mean give a bit of a vitamin shot or something you know like a say something and see what can happen in a very short amount of time and just actually kind of share sh share a little bit of
My Philosophy but also just get um get them excited you know because sometimes when you when you when you study and and and then playing the master class some of them they might be nervous and I just want them to kind of it’s hard isn’t it when they come they stand there they’re so shaky and I want to kind of just this is this is you know this is fun we’re just doing this we’re just trying to really read the personalities and get their interpretations um into the pce
I remember this amazing master class I saw with with bar Bo teaching l l i mean l is incredible so but it was so much it was amazing to see um the way that bar work of course I mean l you know knows it all great musician but then just how he could like uh okay I have a suggestion because
I can sense that you want to do it this way so why don’t you do this instead it might work better to get your interpretation across clever it’s very clever and that’s what that’s what I like about you know Finding I don’t want to put I don’t want to say that the way I play hien is how it’s supposed to be played because that’s not right that’s that’s my version but we need to hear all the other versions
We need to hear you know their version U and then just to kind of yeah no no masterclass is it’s it’s a lot of fun so I’m I’m I’m really enjoying doing that there I’m going to come up with just a few more questions because we can go on for hours and I will give you my iPad as soon as this is finished that you can maybe answer a few that
I haven’t managed to get to but we’ve done quite well I feel like I’ve lost out here because I have a whole list of questions I’ve been thinking up on the whole last week in Japan I’m not getting to any of them but the online audience are asking you their questions which is great Wesley says it’s his birthday today hi
Wesley happy birthday there you go Liam says he wants some signed merchandise it’s his birthday this week so can can can you get that through your website I think it’s possible to U yeah or send send an email to my management the contact page Ed in London who wants to know about karaoke right okay Becky Eon says she’s in a brass
Ensemble she wants to know what advice you have for getting to the next step they’d love to make a CD and play at the proms one day oh wow uh well just you know um playing an ensemble is one of the most amazing things just playing I mean chamber music is is what I I I like to believe that
I do chamber music even though if I play with the big Orchestra or whatever because you’re you know playing with the musicians there but playing in a group is one of the most amazing things I’m sure you agree with me there it’s just it’s magical thing uh it’s just working what we’ve worked on in tenting is just really to find our sound really work on that sound and do different things we we always warm up together um before we practice all the same yeah we do scar stuff and and we walk around we play we play rhythms we we we do we stand our back
Did you yeah we kind of I kind of develop I don’t know it kind of can you can you make a video sometime of you guys doing this yeah of course we would love to we can do that that would be really great CU I think a lot of people would love some sort of group there’s a lot of individual advice out there but for actual groups that would be really yeah we’ve done some workshops and stuff uh with this and just like show how we do things and we just really focus on this you know it’s
I mean it’s great players um individually but then just to find our sound together how all our sounds can blend and make tenting tenting voice well last question it’s really important to take a break isn’t it Stefan I have a photo for you you had to take a break you were actually forced to take a break you weren’t feeling so great were you
I weren’t feeling too great no but you went here yeah and you felt great I felt much better after that oh no that’s I get with like oh so yeah I wish I was I was just lying on the beach for 5 days doing nothing just laying on the beach nice nail polish a nail polish girl I’m impressed
I wasn’t when I was but then I suddenly started a couple of well year A couple of years ago and I just this is fun but you hadn’t taken a break for a long time so it was really important to you to have that have that time definitely yeah definitely no it’s it’s it’s it’s important I mean you can go on for such a long time uh and then your body just tells you that you shouldn’t do this much longer so even at your age even yeah mine tells me all the time it’s but it’s important no matter in what field you you are to
Just not go you I did several years for that a real holiday so it’s that’s not a good thing so I know that now so that would be your advice to your fans and your the fellow students holiday is fellow students my fellow students my to all my fellow students holiday that’s one of the best things that you can do also for your playing turn yeah
I turned off my phone I yeah was out of how come I got that photo we were planning the date of we were planning the date of the hangout was bit on my phone but I was like not I was not I was not on the social media things you know not not my career things no but
I was talking to my friends and it was Wi-Fi on the beach I mean isn’t that weird you go somewhere on holiday there free wi-fi on the beach yeah is that I like those anyway Tina thank you so much really I’m going to give you my iPad as soon as we go offline and um maybe you can answer a few of the questions that
I didn’t get to answer there questions about nozil brass suggesting you tenting should play with them oh I would love I love no oh my God those guys they are I love them but I want to say something because I’m coming to I’m in Germany now so if any of you guys wants to come to my concerts tell us where they are yeah so um
I’m playing in strart with the svr um next week and there was already a a comment on Facebook that you’re coming to play I think it was Sally Clark a friend of mine she was saying oh you’re going to be in with the orchestra that’s great yeah really excited about that I’m playing hien and then I’m doing a small tour uh with the cham solest we’re playing in
Essen Frankfurt and marel um which my first time in frankt Al oper which I’m really excited about so I’m looking forward to that uh so I hope I hope to see you there if you’re around you can keep up with Tina really Facebook Twitter Instagram um your website you’re you’re incredible um I brought you a little present from
Japan oh wow just to say thank you for being on the hangout it’s almost Christmas you can open it I’ll open it in Japan it’s already Christmas you would not believe Christmas already well there it’s Christmas in nor all over the place yeah so this is just something I saw in Japan and and thought maybe you’d like to something really not kit at all
I love presents but um thank you for being on the hanger they don’t really go with your nail look at that wow I shall wear them on my Christmas concert I can do that look at those can you show show there you go do you see them are they pretty look at those damn I should have bought another pair for me really ni those they were so nice thank you so much thank you for being with us today and thank you to um all the audience all our hang thank you for all your wonderful wonderful questions we’ll be online for a little while still once
The cameras are off and we’ll answer as many as we can join us on Monday for Mari Louisa NOA who is an absolute legend in the horn playing World amazing lady and musician so join us then same time 2 pm Berlin time um thank you to our team here uh Stefan clao and yakob who’s been doing all the video mixing yay boys thank you to astonishingly handsome
Tim in Melbourne for staying up really late it’s a great name isn’t it and Tina thank you so much and we will see you guys very soon thank you bye
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