Åshild Breie Nyhus

Åshild Breie Nyhus (born 27 January 1975 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian musician (Hardanger fiddle, violin, viola and nyckelharpa) who plays folk music and classical music, the daughter of fiddler Sven Nyhus and the older sister of pianist Ingfrid Breie Nyhus.

She is the daughter of folk musician Sven Nyhus and since the middle of the 1990s, was a member of his folk music orchestra, Sven Nyhus sekstett.

As a folk musician, she was soloist on Hardanger fiddle and nyckelharpa, with the Oslo-Filharmonien, Det Norske Kammerorkester, Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, among others.

In 2007, she and her sister released the album Edvard Grieg: Slåtter Opus 72 with works by Edvard Grieg recorded with piano and Hardanger fiddle.

For this album she was nominated for the 2007 Spellemannprisen in the classical music category and won the 2008 Grieg Society Award.