User:Roar Kvam
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General Information
Contributor since: 2006-08-31
Number of scores on CPDL: 2
Works with editions by this editor: 40 (see list)
Contact Information
- Fossbrekka 1
- IS-606 Akureyri
- ICELAND
- Tel:+354 894 4260
Websites
- Web Site
- KVAMusic Engraving
- My Score Exchange Sheet Music Shop
- My Sheet MusicPlus Sheet Music Shop
- Male Choir International Index
- Directory of Icelandic Choirs
- Womens Choir EMBLA
- The Passia Choir of Akureyri
- Akureyri Youth Wind Ensemble
Education
Roar Kvam graduated from the Music Conservatory in Oslo, Norway where he studied choral music and conducting with Trygve Lindeman, orchestra conducting with Øyvin Fjeldstad and composition with Finn Mortensen. He has studied wind band conducting in Holland with Henk van Lijnschooten and in Norway with Trevor Ford.
Background
Kvam has been composing since age 15 and has many works in print. He was the director for the oratorio choir "Passíukórinn á Akureyri" for 25 years, Akureyri Male Choir "Geysir" for 10 years, Akureyri Chamber Orchestra for 5 years, Akureyri Music School Windband for 25 years, Akureyri Theater Choir for 10 years. He founded the women's choir Kvennakórinn EMBLA in 2002 and has been it's conductor from the beginning. He is also the owner and director of his own music school "Tónskóli Roars" since 1992.
He has done music engraving jobs for Iceland Music Information Center from 1992 and others from 1985.