Tuva Halse (born 1999 in Molde, Norway)[1] is an instrumentalist, composer, and arranger known for her lyrical jazz improvisations on violin, her refined melodic compositions, and as a founding member of the Fjordgata Records label.

[2] Listening to Ola Kvernberg at Moldejazz in 2016 is also a decisive experience which initiates her interest in jazz music,[3] showing the diversity of ways a violin can be used.

[4][5] One of her first experience with a jazz orchestra is with the Lærlingan, a big band of Molde high school students led by Rolf Magnus Orø with which she plays for instance at Moldejazz in 2017.

Tuva Halse enters the Jazzlinja [no], a jazz training of the Conservatory in Trondheim at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2019, where she meets many of the musicians she will work with in the next several years, and graduates in 2022.

[12] Halse is a multifarious artist who now pursues a career as an improviser, composer, arranger, band leader, and soloist; she has been invited or selected to participate in a large number of groups in the fields of jazz, folk, pop, rap and contemporary music.