Jenny Wilhelms

Jenny Wilhelms (born 1974) is a Finnish musician. She is lead singer in folk band Gjallarhorn. Wilhelms has studied classical and folk music in many Nordic countries.

Wilhelms is focused on the vocal and fiddling tradition in Scandinavia and has studied various Nordic folk music styles. She is working professionally with folk music but also studies at the Sibelius Academy folk music department in Helsinki.

Before Wilhelms has studied at the Malungs Folkhögskola (Dalarna, Sweden), the Mellersta Österbottens Konservatorium, (Karleby, Finland), The Sibelius Academy, (Helsinki, Finland), The Grieg Academy (Bergen, Norway) and the Ole Bull Academy (Voss, Norway) Wilhelms has arranged and composed folk music for choirs 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 chanting and Cow calling ("kulning") from Sweden and Norway. All these elements can be found in Gjallarhorn's music.

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