Terje Isungset is a Norwegian musician and composer. Besides his experience in jazz and Scandinavian music, he also designed music instruments out of some non-traditional materials, including ice.

Terje is the first and only “ice musician” in the world. He’s been playing the frosted instruments for 10 years, and he is also the founder of the Norwegian annual festival “Ice Music” organized in Geilo.

The sight inside frosted waterfalls on top of 3,000 metres high glaciers, with massive ice ceilings looming overhead at the temperature of minus 33 degrees Centigrade, may be at least unusual to some or even inaccessible to perform, but for the Norwegian musician it is an ideal setting for the music he creates.

He developed love for this kind of music when he was invited for the first time to play inside a frosted waterfall. He had the opportunity at that time to try out some of the unfamiliar but wonderful sounds that the ice produces.

In addition to playing, he also made several instruments out of ice by himself.

The instrument that was to last the longest to the Norwegian was the ice horn, chiselled out of a part of    the 2,500 – year old glacier. It last for the full fifty performances.

Otherwise, instruments made out of ice hardly endure several performances, so that nature decides about those things. Each concert is unique, the nature deciding how it would turn out to be and how the instruments would sound.