Guro Skumsnes Moe

Guro Skumsnes Moe is a musician and composer. She is a graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Conservatory of Music in Agder. Her main instruments are bass and voice, and throughout her time as a performer and creative artist she has moved beyond the established boundaries, not least through the band MoE together with Håvard Skaset. MoE is a cross-genre band that uses rock as one of the tools in its music, and its touring activities have included China, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore and Mexico in addition to concerts in many European countries.

She also owns the world's largest bass for which she makes music and with the chamber orchestra The Touchables.

Her output includes more than 30 albums, music for several productions by Plexus Polaires Compagnie, music for Amat Escalante's award-winning film "The Untamed", for which she was also nominated for Best Film Score at the Ariel Prize in Mexico. Her interdisciplinary concert installation "Resonance Silence" led her to a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts, CA, which was well received at the Borealis Festival for Experimental Music, Norway in 2022. In 2022, she co-won the Hedda Award for Best Audiovisual Design, for her music for Moby Dick, which has played to full houses in New York, Singapore, Montreal, London and Paris. She has also created music for two productions at Innlandet Teater, Den Nationale Scene and now Kilden Teater.

Together with Håvard Skaset, she runs the record label Conrad Sound and the distribution network Subversive Vibrations Distribution together with Dugnag Record, Namaka Records and Motvind Records. Moe was co-curator of the All Ears festival (from 2009-2019). She has published several poetry collections and published the fanzine "Stuntrock #3" at MARHAUG FORLAG. She holds a bachelor's degree from UIA and a master's degree in improvisation from NMH.

Guro lives in Tangen, and in 2022 she was also awarded Stange Municipality's Culture Prize. Together with her husband Håvard Skaset, she has bought and created Børsen kulturhus at Tangen, which has become an artist center with the aim of increasing the growth conditions and visibility of art in the local community and in the world.

She composed the music for The Tale of Viga-Ljot and Vigdis and The Drinking Guild for Teater Innlandet in 2023 and the winter of 2024, as well as In our place, at The National Stage in Bergen in 2024. The latter two with Mari Kjeldstadli as director. Gengangere is their third production together and Guro's first production for Kilden Teater.