Tine Thing Helseth is relatively young, with a refreshingly focused and straightforward approach to making music. She is a unique artist with several facets - classical soloist, ensemble leader and jazz musician – and equally at home with each.

Tine, born in 1987, started to play trumpet at the age of 7, and is already one of the leading trumpet soloists of her generation. Already in her solo career, Helseth has appeared with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, all the major Norwegian orchestras and further afield with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, amongst others.

Helseth's debut album (Classical Trumpet Concertos with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra) was released in November 2007, on the Norwegian Simax label and named 'Classical Recording of the Year' by the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. Her second album, My Heart is Ever Present, a collection of Tine's favourite Christmas songs and hymns released in November 2009, went to Gold in the Norwegian classical chart after just three weeks.

Amongst the long list of awards garnered by Ms. Helseth are the 2009 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, Newcomer of the Year at the 2007 Norwegian Grammy Awards (and the first classical artist ever to be nominated), second prize in the 2006 Eurovision Young Musicians Competition and the prestigious Prince Eugen Culture Prize in Stockholm.