Guro Skumsnes Moe is a musician and composer educated at the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Music Conservatory in Agder. Her main instruments are bass and voice, and throughout her career as a performing and creative artist she has consistently moved beyond established boundaries, not least through the band MoE, which she co-founded with Håvard Skaset. A genre-crossing ensemble that uses rock as one of its musical tools, MoE has toured extensively, including China, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore and Mexico, as well as many European countries.
She also owns the world’s largest bass, which she creates music for and performs with together with the chamber orchestra The Touchables. In addition, she has composed music for productions at Innlandet Teater, Den Nationale Scene and Kilden Teater.
Together with Håvard Skaset, she runs the record label Conrad Sound and the distribution network Subversive Vibrations Distribution in collaboration with Dugnag Record, Namaka Records and Motvind Records. Her interdisciplinary concert installation Resonance Silence led to a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in California and was well received at Borealis.
Her output includes more than 30 albums, music for several productions by Plexus Polaires Compagnie, and the score 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. In 2022 she was also a co-winner of the Hedda Prize for Best Audiovisual Design for her music for the performance Moby Dick, and received the Stange Municipality Culture Prize.
Together with her husband, Håvard Skaset, she has purchased and developed Børsen Cultural Center in Tangen, which has become an artist center dedicated to strengthening artistic growth and increasing the visibility of art locally and internationally.