Photo: Ia Neumüller

Jenny Hettne is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, with the exploration of sound and timbre as her most important focus. She writes mainly chamber music, sometimes mixed with electronics and always in a close and innovative collaboration with the musicians.

Jennys music has been selected to festivals such as Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Purpur Festival (Cape Town), MATA festival (New York), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, ISCM World Music Days Tallinn 2019 (Estonia), Two days and two nights of new music (Odessa, Ukraine), Festival Archipel (Geneva), St Petersburg International New Music Festival reMusik, Dark Music Days (Reykjavik), Nordic Music Days, Klang and Sonic Festival (Copenhagen) and the Swedish festivals Kalv, Sound of Stockholm and Svensk Musikvår.

Jenny finished her master degree in music composition at the Academy of Music and Drama, Göteborg University, in 2008. Jenny is a board member of The Swedish Society of Composers and vice president of Samtida Musik. She was one of the curators of Nordic Music Days in London 2017.

Stimme aus der Ferne – premiere

Norrbotten Neo

Acusticum, Piteå

March 10, 2021
Susurrant metal, singing rocks for violin, objects and electronics – premiere

Karin Hellqvist

Ny Musik Aalborg, Rådhuset Nørresundby, Denmark

November 28, 2020
Ytor, böljande

Jonny Axelsson

Svensk Musikvår, Teater Lederman

March 20, 2020 @ 20:45
While she was dreaming

Karin Hellqvist

Svensk Musikvår, Teater Lederman

March 20, 2020 @ 19:30
Bells and Tides

UmeDuo

Frontside, Gothenburg International Chamber Music Festival, 3:e våningen, Sockerbruket, Göteborg

January 19, 2020 @ 11:00

"[...] With an as poetic as playful touch, an intimate soundscape that felt at once familiar and alien was conjured. The mixture of everyday objects and musical instruments created an evocative mood. [...]"

"With this, Swedish chamber music has been given a work that the jury is already daring to proclaim a classic [...]"

“[...] Sounds of glass and metal picked up where the electronics left oft, and the effervescence was picked up by the voice in repeated, ultrarapid “Praise the Lord”. The attention was heightened by subtle playing on flower pots and gongs, as if in an alchemist’s laboratorium [...]”

”(...) The night image is particularly apt for Jenny Hettne's exquisite While she was dreaming, scored for violin and tape.”

”…both surrealistic and groovy…”

”An orchestra piece with a subtle sonorous poetry that adjoins the fascinating world of electroacoustic music.”

Works

Concerts

Stimme aus der Ferne – premiere

Norrbotten Neo

Susurrant metal, singing rocks for violin, objects and electronics – premiere

Karin Hellqvist

Ytor, böljande

Jonny Axelsson

While she was dreaming

Karin Hellqvist

Bells and Tides

UmeDuo