After auditions in November, The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir has taken in two new basses.
Here you can get to know Haakon Hille Hustad.
Haakon is a multi-faceted bass baritone with great experience both as a soloist and an ensemble singer. He started singing as a boy treble with “Sølvguttene”. Haakon studied at Barratt Due Institute of Music and later privately with Jan Sødal.
“I like to explore the musical literature, and Soloists’ choir is the perfect place to discover new music. There is a wide variety in the repertoire performed and that is greatly motivational.
Haakon's first project with the choir was in 2016, and he has also sung with many other professional vocal ensembles in Norway. The basses in The Norwegian Soloists' Choir would like to warmly welcome Haakon to the group:
Haakon is a fine colleague who we know well as a deputy singer. He is a very friendly person to work together with. He doesn’t only just do a good job- he is also warm, helpful, and contributes to a positive working environment in the choir. We look to having Haakon as a permanent singer in the bass group!
Haakon has also for many years been Artistic Manager in NRK’s boys choir “Sølvguttene” where he has had a large say in the artistic content of the choir’s many productions. In the last few years, Haakon has sung as soloist in various large works: Brahms, Mozart and Fauré Requiems; Handel’s Messiah; Bach’s Magnificat; Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle; and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
Many of Haakon's strongest musical experiences come singing with the choir. It’s difficult to choose one experience specifically, so he picked three!
- Bach’s B minor mass with Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Bodø: a work which means a great deal to me. Here it was performed with a completely unexpected energy and playfulness.
- Tour to Adelaide, Australia: An unbelievable repertoire comprised of folk music together with the new and old “masters”.
- The first performances after the lockdown of Norway in 2020. Emotional and powerful! We sang, amongst other places, at Slottsplassen on 17th May 2020 (Norway’s constitution day). There was a deafening silence there In the absence of marching bands and people cheering. When we together with the Royal Family, Sølvguttene and Det Norske Jentekor sang the National Anthem live on television, it felt like I had the most important job in the world.”