Yngvil Vatn Guttu doesn’t just make music. She makes music happen. Since the age of three, when she produced a note on a trumpet on her first try, Yngvil has been inexplicably attracted to the instrument. Little did she know just how much power it would exert over her. Nor just how much of that power she would impart to countless others through her music, communal spirit, and love of life. Before the sounds of this spirited musician-composer began bouncing around the echo chamber of New York City, where she currently spends much of her creative time, they were skimming the icy expanses of Norway. Born in Oslo, Yngvil grew up surrounded by classical music—Bach, Händel, and Schubert were among the first composers to inform her burgeoning mind. In fact, it was Maurice André’s definitive traversal of the Haydn trumpet concerto, along with the classic strains of Louis Armstrong that inspired the balance of note-for-note, classical exposition and soulful elaboration to which she always aspires.

2018 Red Carpet Concert Folk Fest Sessions
Arts@360: Songwriters
Arts@360: Alaska Originals: The Ratfish Wranglers
Arts@360: Alaska Folk Festival 2017 Red Carpet Concerts
Arts@360: Alaska Robotics Mini-Con Concert Special
Arts@360 Alaska Originals: The Lost Lakers
Arts@360: Red Carpet Concert Series II – Folk Festival -2016
Arts@360: Red Carpet Celebration 2016 Sessions #403
Teri Tibbett and Friends
Arts@360: Alaska Originals’ Woosh Kinaadeiyí
John Muir: University of the Wilderness
The Hannah Yoter Band