Gaute Storaas (born 20 August 1959 in

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) is a

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( bass) and composer, and the older brother of jazz pianist

Vigleik Storaas Vigleik Storaas (born 2 February 1963) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer, and the younger brother of composer and bassist Gaute Storaas. He is known from a series of album releases and collaborations with jazz musicians such as Norma Win ...

Career

Storaas grew out of the flowering musical environment in

late 70es, early 80es, and was well known for his innovative bass playing on the local rock and jazz scene. He started studies on the

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(political science and music). He attended Berklee College of Music,

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, in 1984, and got his diploma in Arranging in 1986. Returned to Norway, (

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) and did all kinds of writing work. Arranging for shows, broadcasting, recording sessions, composing for commercials, commissioned films, TV idents, etc. Also found some time for music of his own, and won the Danish Radio Orchestra competition for younger composers in 1989, with the work "Ouverture #2". Best known is probably all the ident music for the launch of TV2, the biggest commercial TV channel in Norway, in 1992. The last decade, time has been split between composing for film and TV, and orchestral arranging for many of the most popular Norwegian artists. Internationally known are, among others, acts as diverse as the black metal band ''

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'', the singer

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, (the wordless voice of ''

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'',) and young classical trumpet virtuoso

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. Most recent film score is for the animated feature ''Elias and the Treasure of the Sea'', which won the ''Nordic Film Composers Award'' 2011. The previous score, for ''The Royal PortKids'' and the TV series that it was based on, ''Abdias: The Little Tugboat'', (nominated for Emmy 2006), was given the '' Edvard Prize'' 2007, TONOs prestigious composer award. In 2007 Storaas composed a full-blown orchestral score for the animated feature ''Elias and the Royal Yacht''. (Nominated for best Norwegian filmscore 2007) Prior to that, scored the TV series ''Elias, the little Rescue Boat'', which was nominated for Emmy, and is sold to about 15 countries. The CD with music from the show was nominated for

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, (the Norwegian grammy) 2011. Scored movies as diverse as the romantic comedy ''The Woman of my Life'', and the dark documentary ''Boomerang'', (about police violence.) Best known work is probably all the ident-music for the launch of TV2, the biggest commercial TV channel in Norway, back in 1992. Most of it ran for 12 years, and some is still on the air. A new, continuing series of high-profile idents started in 2003. Music for a lot of short films, industrials, computer games, theatre music, occasional concert pieces and around 200 TV-commercials (most all of them in the first part of the 1990s). Extensive arranging work, mainly string or orchestral, for the recordings of many of the most popular Norwegian artists. Some that may be known internationally are the rock acts

and

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, M2M,

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and the musical ''

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''. A lot of arranging for the 52 member

Norwegian Radio Orchestra The Norwegian Radio Orchestra (Norwegian, ''Kringkastingsorkestret'', abbreviated as KORK) is a radio orchestra affiliated with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (''Norsk rikskringkasting AS'', or NRK). Its principal base is the ''Store Studi ...

, for concerts and TV-productions. On TONO's (the Norwegian equivalent of PRS) board of musical experts from 1996 to 2005. Chairman for 4 years. Norwegian representative of FFACE (Federation of Film and Audiovisual Composers of Europe.)

Honors

*Won the Danish Radio Orchestra competition for younger composers in 1989, with the work ouverture #2. *Was awarded Edvard Prize 2007 fikk han Tonos for filmmusikken til ''Elias og kongeskipet'' *''Kanonprisen'' best Norwegian filmscore 2010 *Nordic Film Composers Award 2011 *

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Grand Scores 2017 for Best Orchestral Score for the film score to "En mann ved navn Ove"

Works

;Composer of music to films and TV-series *''Boomerang'' Cinema Documentary, directed by Trond Kvist/Gunnar Vikene. Montage film 1995 *''Bak din Rygg'' (Cinema Documentary/TV-series, directed by Aslaug Holm) Rubicon/TV2, 1995 *''Edle Dråper'' (Torkjel Berulfsens Documentary series on alcohol, directed by Truels Zeiner Henriksen.) NRK 2000. (Gullrutevinner x 2) *''Underveis'' (Series for young people, 4 episodes, directed Morten Hovland.) Fabelaktiv/NRK 2001 *''Far & Sønn'' (TV-series, sitcom) Rubicon/TV2 2002 *''Gnottene'' (Children's TV series, 23 episodes) Fabelaktiv/Nordmagi 2003 (shown on NRK, SR, DR) *''Drømmen om Norge'' (TV series the recent Norwegian history), directed by Truels Zeiner Henriksen NRK, 2005 (Nominated for the ''Gullruten'') *''Kvinnen i mitt liv'' (Romantic comedy), regi Alexander Eik. Filmkameratene 2003 *''Elias, den lille redningsskøyta'' (Animert TV-serie, 26 episodes), directed by Espen Fyksen. *''Filmkameratene'' 2005 (Emmy nominated) *''Elias og kongeskipet'' (Animated film, director Espen Fyksen and Lise Osvoll) Filmkameratene 2007 (Nominated for ''Amandaprisen'') *''Elias, den lille redningsskøyta'' (Series 2,13 episodes, director Lise Osvoll) Filmkameratene 2008 ;Composer of music to short films *''NY is for lovers'' (short film, 1988) *''The spirit of 94'' (International presentation film for Lillehammer Olympics) Reel Image 1991 *Music for a part missions around 200 films and commercials, most between 1990 and 95 *''Mal'' (director Hilde Rognskog) 1993 *''Nils Klipper seg'' (director Bjørn Rørvik) 1996 *''Hammerhaien'' (director Eva Dahr, part of the movie ''Pust på meg'') Norsk Film 1997 *''Millers bod'' (director Bjørn Rørvik) 2000 *''Himmelstormeren'' (director Sara Johnsen) 2000 *''Hormoner og andre demoner'' (director Sara Johnsen) 2001 *''Hotellrommet'' (director Torstein Bieler Østtvedt) Filmkameratene 2002 *''Elevkonsert'' (director Jan Otto Ertesvåg) 2008 *''

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'' (director

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) 2015 ;Composer of Program Profiles for TV *''Musikkprofil TV2'' Music for all the TV2's own vignettes. 1992-2004 (the film vignettes and Document 2 are still on the air) *''Brennpunkt'' (Vignette musikk) magazine program, NRK 1995 *''Sentrum'' (Vignette musikk) magazine program, TV2 1997 *''Rikets tilstand'' (Vignette musikk) magazine program, TV2 1999 *''Spillerom'' (Vignette musikk) magazine program, NRK2, 2000 *''Lørdagskommisjonen'' (Vignette musikk) magazine program, TV2 2001 *''Profilvignetter, TV2'' (Series after every 100 small "stamps" in/out of advertising blocks) TV2. 2003,4,5,6... *''Kvitt eller Dobbelt'' total refurbishment of the old vignette, as well as new music, recorded with KORK, NRK 2006 *''TV2 Filmkanalen'' Full channel profile, 2006 ;Composer of music to Multimedia and Computer games *''Norge etter Krigen'' VG in time and space, 1995 *''Josefine'', Pinjata 1996 *''Josefine på ferie'' Pinjata 1997 (Nominated for Europrix 1998) *''Josefine på skolen'' Pinjata 1998 *''Josefine og gjengen'' Pinjata AS 1999 *''Vinter i Mummidalen'' prod. E-press/wsoy 2000 (Finnish award for best children's products in 2000, and the international multimedia award Prix Mobius) *''Ungene i gata'' Minimedia 2005 *''Elias - Operasjon Lunvik'' Panvision 2006 *''Reven og grisungen'' Minimedia 2007 ;Arranger and/or producer of Musical Records *Egil Eldøen ''Egil Eldøen'' (arranger and co-producer) Sonet 1989 *Dronning Mauds Land ''Noe som har hendt'' (Strykearr, 3 låter) KKV 1992 *Kjell Karlsen "Seier´n er vår" OL-sang. Arrangør & produsent. 1994 *Dronning Mauds Land "Tiden kler seg naken" (Strykearr, 4 låter) KKV 1994 * Tim Scott McConnell. "Deceivers & Believers" (Stryk/båsearr, 4 låter Wea 1994 *Grethe Svendsen "Your beauty" (Strykearr, 1 låt) BMG, 1995 *Marit & Marion (senere M2M)""synger kjente barnesanger" arr 3 låter EMI 1996 *Elisabeth Andreassen "Bettans jul" Arr 2 låter Polygram 1996 *Baba Nation "Love Xpress" strykearr, 3 låter. Sony Music 1996 *Bretteville "In Time" Strykearr 3 låter Sonet 1996 *Di Derre "Gym" Strykearr, dirigent 3 låter Sonet 1996 *''Josefine synger sanger''. Fra de populære Josefinespillene. (Komponist, arrangør, produsent) Barneselskapet 1997 *

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''Vannmann'' (arranger) Polygram 1997 *

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''Så skimrande varaldrig havet'' (arr, 2 låter) Polygram 1997 * Henning Kvitnes "Evig eies kun et dårlig rykte" (Strykearr, 2 låter) Norske Gram 1997 *Torhild Sivertsen "Out of the blue" (Strykearr, dirigent, 3 låter) Sony Music 1997 * Jan Werner "Inner Secrets" (Strykearr, dirigent, 6 låter. Polydor 1997 *

"Red" (Strykearr, dirigent 4 låter, bla hiten "When Suzannah cries"). Trippel spellemannspris, Universal 1997 *Div Artister ''Ri stormen av'' Offisiell norsk OL-sang. (Strykearr) 1998 *Grace ''Grace'' (strykearr, 1 låt) Sony music 1998 * Babel Fish'' Babel Fish'' (Synth arr, 5 låter) Warner, 1998 * Odd Børretzen and

Anita Skorgan Anita Skorgan (born 13 November 1958) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. She represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest in (14th), (11th) and with Jan Teigen in (12th). She was also a backing singer at the and contests, and co-wrote t ...

"Våre beste barnesanger 4". (Arrangør, co-produsent.) Spellemannsnominert. Grappa 1998. *

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and others, "Sophies World". Musikk Gisle Kverndokk. (8 av 9 orkesterarrangementer, produsent, 3 låter.) Universal 1998. *Div artister ''Grease'' Cast-album fra Tom Sterris 99-produksjon.(Arrangør, co-produsent. Grappa 1999 *Lars Fredriksen "Pleased to meet you" (Strykearr, 3 låter) Universal 1999 * Baba Nation ''Too Bad'' (Strykearr, dirigent, 3 låter) Sony Music 1999 * Jan Werner ''Music of the night'' (Orkesterarr, dirigent, hele platen) Polydor 1999 *Jahn Teigen ''Magnet'' (String Arrangements, 3 låter, dirigent.) EMI 1999 *Jan Eggum ''Deilig'' (Strykearr 2 låter) Grappa 1999 *Bjørn Eidsvåg ''Tapt uskyld'' (String Arrangements, conductor, 3 låter) Metropol music1999 *Trøste og Bære ''Med promp og prakt'' Marching band arrangements Tylden 2000 *Emilia ''Emilia'' (Swedish artist). (String Arrangements, conductor 2 songs) Polar/Universal 2000 *

''This is pop music'' (Orchestra Arrangements, conductor, 3 songs) Universal 2000. *

"All good things" (String Arrangements, conductor, 4 låter) Universal 2000 * M2M "Shades of purple", (String Arrangements, conductor, 1 song) Warner music 2000 *New Jordal Swingers "Indigo" (String Arrangements, 1 song) Tylden 2001 * Sølvguttene with guests (

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and others) Christmas choir (Arranger, 6 Christmas songs) Universal 2001 *

''Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia'' (String Arrangements, conductor) Nuclear Blast 2001. Spellemannspris. *

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''Dragonslayer'' (Swedish heavy metal) Strykearr, dirigent 2 låter Century Media records, 2001 *Lasse Kroner ''Lasse Kroner'' (Strykearr, dirigent 2 låter), 4 vision (Sverige), 2001 *

''Du & jeg & vi to og mange flere'' (Arranger, producer) nominated for the Spellemannpris, Golden record, Barneselskapet 2001 *Vidar Busk ''Venus, Texas''. Strykearr, dirigent. Warner 2001 Spellemannsnominert *Den norske operas kor & orkester ''Hjem til Jul''. Arr 3 låter, Norske Gram 2002 *

Finn Kalvik Finn Bjørn Kalvik (born 30 April 1947) is a Norwegian singer and composer. Early career He was born in Fåvang, but his family moved to the working class district of Grorud, Oslo in 1952. Early in his career Kalvik found success putting music t ...

''Klassisk Kalvik'' (Arrangør, fullt symfoniorkester 3 låter) DaWorks 2002 *Hot club de Norvege/Tromsø symfoniorkester "White Night Stories" Jon Larsens stringswingsuite, blåst opp fra 6 til 88 strenger av undertegnede. Hot club records 2002 *

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''Polarity'' (Strykearr, dirigent 2 låter) Tylden 2003. *DDE ''Vi e konga'' (Strykearr, dirigent 3 låter) Buy buy records, 2003. *Gnottene. Sangene fra serien (arranger and producer) Panvision 2003 *Notodden Bluesband with Torhild Sivertsen ''Soul Food'' (Strings arr, 1 tune) Bluestown Records 2003. *

''Death Cult Armageddon'' (Orchestral arrangements) Bone Hard rock band and a 50-man strong '' City of Prague Philharmonic''. Nuclear Blast 2003. Spellemannpris. *Jessica Fletchers ''Less sophistication'' (strykarr, 2 låter) Redeye Distribution, 2005 *

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Musikken fra TV-serien. (Composer, arranger, producer). Barneselskapet 2005. Spellemannsnominert *

''Party Animals'' (Arranger, 2 tunes) Full symphony orchestra. (KORK) Burning Heart Records, 2005 *''Frelsesarmens'' (

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) Christmas album 2006 * Christian Ingebrigtsen ''Paint Christmas White'' Arr 1 tune, Czech National Symphony Orchestra * Lars Martin Myhre ''Stengetid?'' (Strings arr., 2 tunes) Tylden 2006. *Di Derre ''Di beste med Di Derre'' (Strings arr., 1 new tune) Sonet/Universal 2006 *

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''Quiet Exit'' (Strings/winds arr., 4 tunes) Sony/bmg 2006. Spellemannsnominert. *

Jan Eggum Jan Eggum (born 8 December 1951) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. He has been characterized as a "face for the melancholy", and the themes in his songs are often broken hearts, loneliness, and sorrow. Sometimes his lyrics include social critici ...

Arranged 2 tunes for Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, høsten 2007 *Ina ''Best Of Me'' (String Arrangement, conductor, 5 tunes) TVT records (USA) 2007 ;Composer of music for Theatre *''Trollmannen fra Oz'' Regi Kenneth Dean 1 ny sang. Oslo nye dukketeater 2007 *''Tiggerprinen'' Rogaland Teaters hovedforestilling våren 2001 *''Dr Irrwitzers testamente'' Nordland dukketeaterverksted 2000 *''Sinbad sjøfareren'' Kenneth Dean Production, Det åpne teater 1999 *''Grease'' Tom Sterri, regi Wayne mcKnight (Samtlige musikkarrangementer) 1999 *''Sofies Verden'' (Så vidt innom som arrangør) 1999 *''Frykt'' Nordland Dukketeaterverksted, 1998 *''Aladdin'' Teater X, regi Kenneth Dean, premiere 1995, turnert i flere år, siste oppførelse var som gjestespill på DNS i Bergen, hele høsten 2000. *''Gengangere'' Kenneth Deans meget spesielle versjon av denne klassikeren, Teater X 1995 ;Composer of Concert music *''16:30'' bestilt av det norske brassensemble med Ole Edvard Antonsen som soloist, uroppført under festivalen "Farsund i konsert" 1998. *''Hymne for obo og orkester'' finalist i nordisk komposisjonskonkurranse i Helsinki, 1990 *''Ouverture #2'' for symfoniorkester & band. Vinner av Danmarks Radios "Komponisternes underholdningsmusikpris" 1989. *''Impressions'', ''Bright of black'', ''Karthago'', ''Blustein'', alle oppført av NRK´s radiostorband, 1987-90. ;As arranger/orchestrator *Arrangert Jon Erik Kaadas "Music for Moviebikers" for Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra, våren 2007. *Mye arbeid for Kringkastingsorkesteret (KORK) bla ved nobelkonsertene i 99 (Espen Lind), og 2002, (Sissel) *Jon Larsens "White Night Stories" for jazzkvintett og strykere, også innspilt på plate (2002)

Discography

;Solo *2007: ''Elias Og Kongeskipet'' (Barneselskapet) ;With

Jan Bang Jan Bang (born 21 August 1968) is a Norwegian musician and record producer who has worked with Morten Harket, Sidsel Endresen, David Sylvian, Nils Petter Molvær, Arild Andersen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Arve Henriksen, and Erik Honoré. (in Norwegian) ...

Erik Honoré Erik Honoré (born 11 December 1966) is a Norwegian writer, musician, record producer and sound engineer. As a musician, he has collaborated with Jan Bang, David Sylvian, Brian Eno/ Peter Schwalm, Jon Hassell, Nils Petter Molvær, Arve Henriksen, ...

, and

Arve Henriksen Arve Henriksen (born 22 March 1968) is a Norwegian trumpeter. Career Henriksen was born in Stranda and educated on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium; he later studied music pedagogy, while he played in «Bodega Band» (1987� ...

*2013: ''Victoria'' (Jazzland)

References

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