Ingrid S. Neset is a young prizewinning flutist from a small village called Os, Norway. She grew up in a musical family and started playing the flute as a 11 year old. Ingrid was awarded with the norwegian prize «Musician of the Year» 2009 before she started her professional studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen where she studied with Ulla Miilmann, Anna Dina Schick Bjørn-Larsen and Toke Lund Christiansen. She also studied one year Diploma Konzertexam in Stuttgart with prof. Davide Formisano.
She has appeared as a solist with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Soloists and the RDAM Symphony Orchestra. She has also been supported with significant grants as «Young Star» from Statkraft and the Sonning «Talent Prize».
Aged 23 she won the Principal Flute postition at Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and has made guest appearences on the same position with Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Oslo Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Danish Orchestra. She hold the Principal chair in Stavanger until 2018, and played two years on a contract as Principal Flute in the Royal Danish Orchestra season 18/19 and 19/20.
She was part of the Talent Norway ArtEx program 2019-2020, with Wolfgang Plagge as her mentor.
Ingrid is an active chamber musician and is collaborating with her brother and prominent jazz saxophone player Marius Neset. He has written music directly for Ingrid and they appeared together at stages like Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Cologne Philharmonie. This music is published on several CD recordings. She had her debutconcert in 2017 in Copenhagen with the premiere of music written for her by Marius Neset, and premiered a new fluteconcerto written for her together with The Norwegian Radio Orchestra in 2022.