CROSSING GRIEG

Crossing Grieg, a deeply personal and artistically bold new album featuring brothers Nils Henrik Asheim and Håkon Asheim in a shared reimagining of Edvard Grieg's music.

Crossing Grieg is a meeting between legacy and experiment, between the deeply familiar and the entirely unexpected. Grieg seen through new eyes. On this release, Nils Henrik takes the piano while Håkon plays the Hardanger fiddle — an instrument at the very heart of Norwegian musical identity. The combination is quietly electric: two brothers, two voices, one of the most profound conversations in Norwegian music.

Moving between the intimate and the expansive, the restrained and the bold, the album charts a course through Grieg's musical landscape with fresh ears and genuine artistic courage. The original folk dances are merged with Edvard Grieg's adaptions in various inventive ways - sometimes simply juxtaposed, other times completely recomposed.

That this is a project born between brothers gives Crossing Grieg a rare quality: an almost wordless understanding between two musicians who share not only a name, but a lifetime of musical dialogue. The result is an album of exceptional intimacy and depth.

Nils Henrik Asheim is one of Norway's most distinctive and versatile musical voices, known for his work across contemporary music, organ, and improvisation. Håkon Asheim is an acclaimed Hardanger fiddle player with deep roots in the Norwegian folk tradition.