Jenny Wilhelms
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Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
musician
Musician
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. She studied classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
and folk music
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
in many Nordic countries
Nordic countries
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. She was the lead singer of the innovative folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
band Gjallarhorn from 1994 to its disbandment in 2007. More recently, according to her bio for her appearance at the 2011 Tampere
Tampere
Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...
vocal music festival, she "specialises in vocal physiology for non-classical singers and teaches privately, gives masterclasses and works with choirs and ensembles."
Wilhelms is focused on the vocal and fiddling
Fiddle
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tradition in Scandinavia and has studied various Nordic folk music styles.
Wilhelms studied at the Malungs Folkhögskola (Dalarna
Dalarna
', English exonym: Dalecarlia, is a historical province or landskap in central Sweden. Another English language form established in literature is the Dales. Places involving the element Dalecarlia exist in the United States....
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
), the Mellersta Österbottens Konservatorium, (Karleby, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
), The Sibelius Academy, (Helsinki, Finland), The Grieg Academy
Griegakademiet
The Grieg Academy is a name currently shared by music programs at two higher education institutions in Bergen, Norway. One prominent institution, which until recently has referred to itself in English as the "Grieg Institute" is the music conservatory in Bergen, Norway and a department of the...
(Bergen
Bergen
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, Norway
Norway
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), the World Academy of Music and Dance, Ireland, and the Conservatory of Keski-Pohjanmaa, Finland.
Wilhelms has arranged and composed folk music for choir
Choir
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s and vocal ensembles. Her four pieces, ordered for the 55th anniversary of the Flora Female Choir at the Åbo Academy, won the first price in a Scandinavian Choir arranging competition in 1999.
Wilhelms has studied and taught the medieval ballads of Scandinavia, Finnish runo-chanting, Icelandic rímur
Rímur
In Icelandic literature, a ríma is an epic poem written in any of the so-called rímnahættir . They are rhymed, they alliterate and consist of two to four lines per stanza...
chanting and Cow calling (kulning
Kulning
Kulning, or herding calls is a domestic Scandinavian music form, often used to call livestock down from high mountain pastures where...
) from Sweden and Norway. All these elements can be found in Gjallarhorn's music.