Dear GRAMMY® voting friends, Please consider the soundtrack «Kampen om Narvik»  for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Check out my GRAMMY® FYC for Kampen om NARVIK here: christinehals.com/fyc

The recording of the music for NARVIK

LISTEN TO THE MUSIC FOR NARVIK
Listen to the soundtrack for the WWII movie NARVIK
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The Battle of Narvik premiered on December 25th 2022

The Battle of Narvik had its premiere on December 25th 2022

The Norwegian WWII movie “Kampen om Narvik – Hitler’s første nederlag“/  “The Battle of Narvik – Hitler’s First Defeat”  finally had its long awaited world premiere on December 25th, after being delayed by last minute corona lock downs and the Ukraine war. The film, directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg and produced by Aage Aaberge and Live Bonnevie at Nordisk Film, had its red carpet premiere in Narvik on December 10th and on December 15th in Oslo. We were all very excited to see this strong movie being released to an eagerly waiting audience.

Christine composed theme for League of Legends Champion “Udyr – the Spirit Walker”

This summer Christine was asked by Riot Games to compose a new theme for League of Legends Champion Udyr – the Spirit Walker with Irish composer Colm McGuinness. You can hear the result in the video above or you can read more about it under Music.
The track has in few days been streamed over 5 million times on different platforms, 3 million for the Game Play Trailer alone, which tells how huge the League of Legends brand is.

 Christine co-wrote with power metal band Borealis 

Christine was invited to co-write and sing on the Canadian metalband Borealis latest album called Illusions. The track she worked on is called Illusions and is the opening track of the album which was met with raving reviews. In August Christine filmed a music video for Illusions in her home town, Nordkjosbotn, in Northern Norway.

 2021

Calling the Aurora had its world premiere by the Hallé

“Calling the Aurora” performed by the Hallé and Stephen Bell

 On December 2nd 2021 Christine’s tribute to the northern lights “Calling the Aurora” had its world premiere by the Hallé Orchestra at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, England. The piece was picked out to be part of the Finlandia concert featuring the Nordic composers Grieg, Sibelius, Alfvén and Christine Hals.

Sibelius- Finlandia
Grieg- Piano Concerto
Alfvén- Swedish Rhapsody No.1, ‘Midsummer Vigil’
Sibelius- Valse triste
Christine Hals- Calling the Aurora (Northern Lights Kulning)
Grieg- Peer Gynt Suite: selection
Conductor:                                  Featuring:
Stephen Bell                                   Elisabeth Brauß, piano

Perfect for winter, this concert celebrates the mystery and beauty of the far North. Two of the most famous pieces by Norwegian Edvard Grieg feature: his musical tableaux for Peer Gyntand his stunning Piano Concerto, with its beautiful central Adagio, which will be performed by BBC New Generation Artist and Terence Judd-Hallé Award recipient, pianist Elisabeth Brauß. Film composer and vocalist Christine Hals, known for her Scandinavian herding call in Disney’s Frozen, brings the unique sound to her ‘Calling the Aurora’. Hugo Alfvén contributes his light-hearted Midsummer Vigil, a symphonic rhapsody that gets right to the heart of his homeland’s folk music, whilst Sibelius is represented by his haunting and melancholy Valse tristeand his stirring tribute to his homeland, Finlandia.
Read more about it on Planet Hugill 

Christine is scoring WWII movie – the BATTLE OF NARVIK!

 The movie is directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg and produced by Aage Aaberge and Live Bonnevie at Nordisk Film. Visit Battle of Narvik – the Movie – to learn more about the film and some of the history behind it. You can watch the trailer (and hear some of the music) in the video below.
The film premieres December 25th.

     Calling The Aurora reaches over 1 Million streams on Spotify!

Calling the Aurora using the Scandinavian herding call “kulning” – which Christine first used in Disney’s Frozen to call the snow.

In January 2021 Christine’s tribute to the Northern Lights reached over 100.000 streams in one month on the streaming platform Spotify, with over 6000 listeners a day. This is a new record and the track has over double the plays per 24 hours as the songs Christine sings for Frozen 2.

As of February 14th 2021 Christine had over 100.000 unique listeners on Spotify each month.

In July Calling the Aurora reached the magic 1 Million streams.

The photo is from March 2016 when Christine and Northern Lights photographer Ole Salomonsen had a photoshoot in a mountain river in Troms, Northern Norway, where Christine’s from. She tried a new kulning call she had made for the Northern Lights in hopes of making them appear. After almost 2 hours in the river the lights finally appeared. Christine and Ole made a video of this and Christine later went on to make an orchestral piece around the calls which she recorded with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. The video has been very popular on YouTube – you can watch it here: Calling The Aurora.

 2020

Film Composer Christine Hals at the Berlinale

During the Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival and the Nordic Film Music Days Christine had the great honor to sit in a panel with Helga Truepel who as a member of the European Parliament has done significant work to protect music rights. Other people in the panel was British composer Chris Smith who as member of the ECSA – European Composer and Songwriter Alliance Coercion group protested against composers being bullied into surrendering their copyright by TV companies. Norwegian Kai Robøle Music publisher and founder of Arctic Rights who works to ensure that the rights of composers and music publishers are managed locally in competition with big international players. The prolific Swedish film composer Jon Ekstrand, currently scoring Marvel’s Morbius. The panel discussed the dangers and consequences of coercion in film music business and what precautions can be made. It was moderated by Alfons Karabuda president of ECSA, executive chairman of SKAP and expert in the field of artistic rights to the UN Human Rights Council.

Other people invited to speak at this year’s Nordic Film Music Days were multi award winning Hildur Guðnadóttir composer of Joker and Chernobyl who spoke about how writing the score to the script of Joker affected the film.

Christine was also invited to speak for a group of film students from the Norwegian film school Danvik FHS. Also here in good company, as Oscar winning producer Nicolás Celis spoke about his work on Roma and the path to where he is now, right before Christine stepped on the stage to speak about working in the US vs in Norway. You can read more about it here: “You Gotta Help Each Other!”

                                   Northern Skies premiered by The Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra
On January 18th two of Christine’s orchestral pieces were performed by Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico

Concert with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra

It was the premiere of the piece Northern Skies, which is a tribute to the Northern Lights and the other piece performed was Storms of Freya, which already premiered in Rousse Opera House, Bulgaria in 2017.

The concert “Three Composers With Three Stories” took place at the Pablo Casals Symphony Hall in Santurce Saturday, January 18 and featured Christine Hals along with 5 other international composers; Vivian Aguiar-Buff, Veronica Quevedo, Chikako Iversen, Amy Mareie Beach, Cindy O’Connor.  The concert was conducted by maestro Rafael Enrique Irizarry.

“It is very important for us that there is representation of female composers at our concerts. This way we continue to motivate and empower future generations of women to become interested in classical music as a creative and artistic space where they can be successful,” assured the executive director of the Musical Arts Corporation (CAM), Carlos Ruiz Cortés.

 2019

Christine is Norwegian Queen Iduna in FROZEN 2

Listen to Christine sing the song “All Is Found” – “I elven finnes alt” a lullaby about the magical river where all the answers lie.
FUN FACT-  the siren in the film is young Iduna played by Norwegian artist AURORA – in the original Frozen Christine was the one doing the magical calls that Elsa kept hearing whenever she was using her snow powers. In Frozen 2 those calls are more prevalent and are the plot of the whole story. Read more under MUSIC.

INCLUSION SALON – CONCERT 

On September 7th Christine was one of the composers who were asked to compose and perform music at the very first INCLUSION SALON

Christine Hals singing ancient Norse lyrics at the Inclusion Salon

This is a concert initiative to help promote minorities within the media world, and women are truly a minority within the world of film and music. There are less than 2% female film composers working today. Christine wrote a piece with ancient Norse lyrics “Hvárt býr Guð?”  which means “Where Does God Dwell?” for soprano, choir led by Baraka May, string quartet led by Nina Evtuhov, piano Mike Lang and percussion MB Gordy. The concert was hosted by Michael Levine and Mirette Seireg and produced by Mpath, North Music Group (Abby North) and APM Music. Penka Kouneva was the music director. (photo James Jacoby)

IMAGES AND THE WORLDS OF BEING

The immersive movie Images and the Worlds of Being  directed by Kirsi Nevanti and scored by Christine premiered on April 24th in Stockholm

The movie is a VR experience where you’re actually immersed in watching 72 minutes of film spread on 4 different screens in 18 minutes. I had to work mathematically and experiment a lot back and forth to make the music fit with the images and Kirsi’s strong vision. We stretched the music in time which I believe fits perfectly with the idea of “parallel realities and creativity” which is the foundation Kirsi built this project on.

 2018

FEATURED VOCALIST in ANT-MAN and the WASP 

You can hear Christine’s characteristic kulning in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp scored by Christophe Beck.

JERRY GOLDSMITH AWARD NOMINEE 

 Christine was one of the nominees for a Jerry Goldsmith 2018 Award. Selected from a total of 131 score submissions, Christine’s piece “Calling the Aurora” was one of the 10 nominee’s in the category Free Creation.

GOLDEN BOY - Film Composer & Music Supervisor

Golden Boy

Golden Boy (2018)

In addition to being the film’s score composer, Christine was also music supervisor putting her in charge of the film’s full musical arch. Golden Boy had a total of 11 diegetic songs and Christine wrote and produced 4 of them in addition to finding and placing the other 7. One of the artists on the film was the rapper V Knuckles aka Rahim Muhammed and the rap songs “On a Mission» (click link), “Getting It Done” and “Throw Dat” which fit the film’s vibe perfectly.

The opening song “On Top Of The World” features Christine’s brother as vocalist and was specifically written for this film.

Golden Boy premiered at the FilmOut Festival in San Diego June 8th 2018 .

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS - Nunu & Willump – A Boy and his Yeti

Once again Christine’s Nordic voice is featured in League of Legends by Ornn composer Kyle “Kole” Hicks. This time for the login screen of Freljord Champion Nunu and his Yeti friend Willump. At about 2min36s you can hear Christine’s voice.

“After Nunu discovered the fearsome monster of legend was just waiting for a good snowball fight, he and Willump became the best of friends.”

GOD OF WAR – with the Vitamin String Quartet

On June 13th Christine performed the music from video game God of War with the Vitamin String Quartet at the Novo Theater in Down Town LA for the E3 Gaming Convention 2018.
Musicians; Paul Jacob Cartwright, Amanda Lo, Lauren Elizabeth Baba and Derek Joseph Stein. The music was written by game composer Bear McCreary, arr by Edward Trybek. Host and producer of the show, Geoff Keighley.

MAJESTIC LANDSCAPES – At the Berlinale

In February Christine was invited to open the Nordic Film Music Days in Berlin with her composition “Majestic Landscapes” that she sang for her film composers colleagues, producers, directors and other industry professionals attending the Berlin Film Festival. This video from her hometown Nordkjosbotn was screening behind her.

CALLING THE AURORA – The Northern Lights

Listen and watch as Christine calls the Northern Lights in a river….

Calling The Aurora – is a collaboration with Northern Light photographer Ole C. Salomonsen. The music was recorded with Budapest Scoring Symphonic Orchestra and Choir. Christine is using her special herd call technique kulning to make the Northern Lights appear.  This is the same technique as she used while calling the snow in Disney’s Frozen.

 2017

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS

 Christine was a featured vocalist for League of Legends composer Kyle “Kole” Hicks teaser for new champion Ornn, Path to Hearth-Home

AERO ORIGINS

 Christine scored the animated sci-fi web series Aero Origins by director Arturo Vargas, Desertski Films.

Christine’s music for “Aero Origins” won the World Fest Award for best music in April 2018. In 2015 Christine’s music for “Aero” won for best music in the live action category at the same film festival.

 2016 

 EINAR 

Christine scored the viking movie Einar by Trifilm Pictures. Here’s a video from when she composed Sveina’s theme in the Norwegian mountains. She also recorded ancient Norwegian instruments with the Sami musician and instrument maker Øistein Hanssen and her brother Mads Hals singing 1100 year old lyrics from the viking era.

2013

FROZEN 

Christine’s voice is featured in Disney’s Frozen!
In addition to the singing she also wrote lyrics in ancient Norse for the film with original music by Christophe Beck. In the Coronation Scene you can hear the choir piece Heimr Árnadalr sung in the extinct Viking language, Norse.

“Christine Hals – the Norwegian Force of Nature” – DT-BB

“Regional instruments and soloist Christine Hals’ kulning are both used throughout these opening tracks to great effect. The kulning — a high-pitched Scandinavian herding call — later acts as a thematically resonant detail in “Whiteout” as Anna calls out in a search through a blinding blizzard”

“Beck’s underscore includes the Norwegian bukkehorn (ram’s horn) and Norwegian-born, L.A.-based singer Christine Hals’ “kulning”, a high-pitched vocal technique that was once used to call cattle down from Scandinavian mountain pastures.”   – Variety by Jon Burlingame

 

 

 

LOS ANGELES FILM CONDUCTING INTENSIVE

Christine was one of 12 participants in Maestro David Newman and Angel Velez very first conducting workshop Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive January 14-17 2016. At the end of the 4 day intensive, Christine conducted a 67 piece orchestra playing her new piece Northern Skies at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros Studios.

On June 24th 2017 Christine conducted her piece Storms of Freya in a concert with the Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra at the Rousse Opera House in Bulgaria.

The Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive was arranging the concert and the main conductors, Angel Velez and Conrad Pope, were conducting film music from Hollywood classics.

 

Norwegian-Swedish film composer Christine Hals came from the snowy mountains and fjords of Norway to the beaches and bright boulevards of Los Angeles, CA after completing a Masters degree in Film Scoring at the highly acclaimed Dramatical Institute and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Back home, Christine scored for various short movies, features and documentaries, some of which have won several awards. Now she’s ready for even bigger challenges.

Weeks after graduating from a prestigious intensive one year course in music composition on scholarship at the University of Southern California, where Christine studied under the mentorship of A-list composer James Newton Howard, the young composer was head-hunted by Disney Studios. They needed Norwegian lyrics and vocals for a little film called Frozen, and Christine had the perfect artist background. As a young girl, she herded goats using a high-pitched singing style known as “kulning” to call the animals down from icy slopes. She also contributed lyrics in Ancient Norse to one of the songs composed by the film’s composer Christophe Beck. The filmmakers praised her work on Frozen which went on to become the top-grossing film of 2013 and win several Academy Awards including Best Animated Picture for directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, and Best Song for songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez.

Christine lives, works and plays in Venice where she writes music for films, TV shows and computer games and also provides film vocals and pop vocals for fellow composers. Her background in fine art stands her in good stead when painting with sound for moving pictures. “I see music as colors and landscapes, but I think we all have different interpretations of it, so we see different colors and images. That’s why I love trying to figure out how directors want their films to be heard.  I simply love mixing my colors and musical landscapes with their visuals.”

Christine is inspired by the world around her, whether that be the sounds of big city LA or Stockholm, or the murmur of the sea. She holds in her heart memories of Norway’s Northern lights in dark winter, the bright summer midnight sun and the beauty of snow stretching for miles and miles.  Christine believes that creativity and your artistic side comes from your soul and your soul is touched by all the experiences you’ve had and all the people you’ve met, resulting in a music that reflects her travels as it explores different cultures, styles and musical imagery, bringing to life the newly-born characters of a filmmaker’s imagination.

Praise for Christine…

“You’re very dedicated and true to your music. You have a very unique sound and an extraordinary voice. What a range!”

Jean Michel Jarre – Jean Michel Jarre is one of Christine’s musical heroes.

“I can’t tell you how much I loved the choral part – it was really good!” … “I think you’re doing really good work. You have really great instincts for film music, I think you’re gonna be very good!”

James Newton Howard – Christine’s former mentor

“Working with Christine is like directing the perfect actor. She asks great questions and understands what the scene is about and what music’s role in it is. Then she surprises you with what she creates, finding moments in the visuals that you never knew were there. She’s always receptive to notes and new approaches to the material. Her passion for the project, musical sensitivity, amazing vocal skills and professionalism make her a pleasure to work with from start to finish.”

Jean Barker – writer/director

“Christine breathes life into every scene she scores. On each of our five collaborations, she’s found a true and unique way to musically write the subtext of the story. She’s used glass to create longing, a chime to depict inescapable sadness, and an mbira to help a young girl find courage to face the world on her own.  In addition to Christine’s wide musical range and ample story telling abilities, she is a joyful collaborator who is wholly dedicated to excellence and always delivers.”

Abi Damaris Corbin – director and producer

Here are some of the magazines, news papers, tv-channels and websites that have interviewed or written about Christine.

Tara - «Kampen om Narvik»: Kvinnelig komponist står for musikken

– Innspurten ble som et maraton for sjelen og det kunstneriske, sier Christine Hals, som har komponert musikken til storfilmen «Kampen om Narvik» som har verdenspremiere 10 desember.

“Narvik”: Female composer behind the music

– The final stages was like a marathon for the soul and the creative, says Christine Hals, who has composed the music for the blockbuster film “The Battle of Narvik”, which has its world premiere on December 10th.

Cinema 5 – review of the film”Narvik”

“– Det mektige lydbildet imponerer likedan i sin kakofoni av eksplosjoner og mitraljøsesalver. På toppen av det hele har komponist Christine Hals laget en god og dramatisk filmmusikk som på pulserende og droneaktig vis muligens illuderer en klokke som stadig tikker ned, skriver Krogstad.”

“- The powerful soundscape is equally impressive in its cacophony of explosions and machine-gun volleys. On top of it all, composer Christine Hals has created a good and dramatic film score which, in a pulsating and drone-like manner, possibly deludes a clock that is constantly ticking down,” writes Krogstad.

Fremover:  Interview with Christine about her work as composer for “Kampen om Narvik”.

Fremover:  review of the film”Narvik”

 “Det visuelle er veldig bra, og kast inn et fantastisk, symfonisk lydspor av Christine Hals, og du har oppskriften på en kritiker-suksess.”

“The visuals are very good, and throw in a fantastic, symphonic soundtrack by Christine Hals, and you have the recipe for a critic- success.”

Nordlys – review of the film”Narvik”

“Det er få dødpunkter i “Kampen om Narvik”. Man sitter på kanten av setet helt til man blåses bakover av enorme eksplosjoner. Lyden er den beste jeg har hørt på norsk film, som har plagdes som som en mare av dårlig lyddesign. Og filmmusikken er utrolig! Christine Hals fra Nordkjosbotn er filmkomponist, og hun har gjort et stykke arbeid hun kan være stolt av.”

“And the soundtrack is incredible! Christine Hals from Nordkjosbotn is the film’s composer, and she has done a piece of work she can be proud of.”

DTBB-  Interview with Christine Hals in DT-BB

“Christine juggled personal crisis with her chance of a life-time”

Adressa:  review of the film “Narvik”

“Filmmusikken til Christine Hals bygger mektig opp om landskap og drama.”

“The film music by Christine Hals builds powerfully up around landscapes and drama.”

Musikkontoret – The film composer found her own niche.

“Working as a film composer during a crisis is very therapeutic.”

“Kampen på hjemmebane inspirerte Christine Hals mens hun skrev musikk til en av Norges største krigsfilmer.”

“The ongoing battle at home inspired Christine Hals while she wrote music for one of Norway’s biggest war movies.”

Ballade - Christine Hals made the music for the blockbuster “Narvik”

Kulturplot  – Hals Aims Towards Hollywood – Norwegian Christine Hals wrote a song to the world’s biggest e-sport game “League of Legends”.

Østlendingen – The E-mail Made Christine Fall Out of Bed – “This Is Huge” -  Winter, ice and snow has followed Christine through her whole career. Now her newest piece has gotten over six million streams.

Tara – Norwegian Women’s Magazine  – Film composer Christine Hals – From Hollywood to Narvik –

“-I’m used to stepping in on male dominated arenas”

It’s about following your dreams and really go for it! Being hired as the composer for a big war movie isn’t common for a woman. 2021 was an important year for Christine Hals. – Scoring the Battle of Narvik is my biggest project so far, she says.  

NRK – Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation -[COVER STORY]  Her kulning became Frozen music – 

– Det er litt spesielt at geitelokkeropa eg lærte som barn har inspirert manuset til ein Disney-film, seier Christine Hals.

– It’s rather unique that the goat herding calls I learned as a child has inspired the script for a Disney-movie, says Christine Hals.

Norwegian news magazine VG - excerpt on review for Frozen 2 / Frost 2:  NO: Christine Hals’ «I elven finnes alt» må imidlertid trekkes fram som en vellykket tolkning, og Gustav Nilsen gjør en sjarmerende Olaf i «Når jeg blir voksen».  EN:  Christine Hals version of “All Is Found” must however be emphasized as a successful interpretation, and Gustav Nilsen does a charming Olaf in “When I’m Older”.

Ledernytt - [COVER STORY] Christine was interviewed by Norwegian CEO News on how to best network, as rumor has it she is a master at it.

Z Filmtidsskrift - Christine was interviewed for the Norwegian Film Magazine Z about her favorite film composer/film director collaboration.

Nordlys - NO: På to dager hadde over én million mennesker fått med seg Christine’s nye sang. Christine Hals synger i dataspill med over 100 millioner brukere. EN – In two days over one million people heard Christine’s new song. Christine Hals sings in a computer game with over 100 million users.

Behind The Audio – League of Legends – The music was written by composer Kyle ‘Kole’ Hicks, composer at Riot Games, and features the lead vocal performance by Christine Hals who was already responsible for Nordic vocal parts in Disney’s Frozen.

Insider Fem – Christine was recently featured on the Norwegian TV Show Insider Fem that visits people around the world with unique lifestyles or occupations.

NRK Radio –   Norway’s Official Broadcasting Corporation – Christine Hals from Elverum, lives and works in Los Angeles as a film composer. She has sung and written lyrics to among others, the super hit “Frozen”.

Østnorsk Film She is perhaps most known for her snow calling in Disney’s major success “Frozen”. Here she’s using the Scandinavian herding call technique kulning which she learned from herding goats at her father’s farm in Troms. She also wrote the Norse lyrics in Elsa’s Coronation scene. She’s very much inspired by Norwegian nature and culture which you can hear in her music.

Swedish Music Producers – Christine Hals makes Swedish Music Producers top list. A list that is hard to make considering Sweden is one of the world’s biggest exporters of pop music. Other names on the list is Max Martin, Bloodshy, Avicii, Shellback, Andreas Carlsson, Swedish House Mafia and Robyn. “Christine was born in Norway, but refined in Sweden” As she got her full music education in Sweden and even a Swedish grant to higher studies in the US, Christine considers herself a Scandinavian composer as opposed to only Norwegian.

Østlendingen - Norwegian Newspaper
[SATURDAY COVER STORY] – titles “Composes With Her Heart” Christine is one of the world’s few female film composers and has contributed with both lyrics and vocals for Disney’s Frozen.

Nordlys – [COVER STORY] Christine works so hard that she sometimes cries from exhaustion. “Is it worth it? Am I gonna make it?” Christine pours her soul into each project as if it’s the last one.

Ordentlig Radio - Christine was interviewed on Ordentlig Radio talking about her latest project and showing her new single Calling The Aurora where she’s using kulning to call the Northern Lights.

SVT KOBRA –  Swedish Television and KOBRA – Scandinavia’s leading arts and culture TV show visited Christine in Santa Monica while she was working on her new album. They wanted to know how snow sounds.

Østlendingen - Norwegian Newspaper
[SATURDAY COVER STORY] – titles  “Catches The Sound Of Snow” “Creates Winter Tones”. 

NRK Radio – Buskerud Direkte – Christine was interviewed after she won the prestigious SKAP-award. Nominated and given by The Swedish Society of Songwriters, Composers and Authors – SKAP in December 2014.

SKAP Award - Along with Composers like Nanne Grönvall and film composer Johan Söderqvist Christine was awarded the prestigious SKAP Award on December 9th 2014. “En sångerska skolad i nordisk folktradition som far fram som en komet på filmmusikhimlen. Hennes musik lägger sig som ett tunt snötäcke över stjärnorna på Hollywood Boulevard: Christine Hals! ” “A singer trained in Nordic Folk Tradition who flies over the film music skies like a comet. Her music spreads like a thin veil of snow over the stars on Hollywood Boulevard; Christine Hals!”

Musikindustrin.se – Web page for the Swedish music industry.

SVT – Swedish Television  A short written piece about KOBRA and their documentary on snow in art with Christine Hals and Simon Beck among their guests.

Klassisk Musikkmagasin – Norways biggest magazine for Classical Music – title: “The Hollywood Dream”

OPUS magasin – Sweden’s #1 magazine for Classical Music and Opera,  [COVER STORY] – title “From Stockholm to L.A. – Christine Hals”

Variety - a weekly American entertainment-trade magazine

Title  ‘Frozen’ Aims for Watermark notched by ‘Mermaid,’ ‘Beauty & Beast’ by Jon Burlingame

NRK – Norway’s Official Broadcasting Corporation

Title – “Disney fell for Norwegian Snow Queen” – You can also listen to a radio interview here.

Visit Norway – Frozen directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck talk about Christine’s kulning.

TV2 - Norway’s second largest TV-channel

Title – “Norwegian Christine sang in Disney film”

The Wall Street Journal - an American English-language international daily newspaper

Title Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen” Lets Go With Dynamic Soundtrack

Østlendingen - Norwegian newspaper
[SATURDAY COVER STORY]  Title  - Christine contributed with music for Oscar winning film

SACC-LA -The Swedish Chamber of Commerce Pre-Oscar party news letter

“The Film Composer Christine Hals, who has done Scandinavian herding calls and lyrics in Old Norse for the Oscar nominated “Frozen”, won the Led Zeppelin signed guitar in the Silent Auction.”

Drammens Tidende – Buskeruds blad – Newspaper

Cover story – title ”Christine Hals – The Norwegian Force of Nature”