OLA GJEILO

The music of Manhattan-based Norwegian composer and pianist Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) has been performed and recorded in more than 25 countries worldwide in venues such as New York's Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Los Angeles' Disney Hall, PhiladelphiaÕs Kimmel Center, Miami's Knight Concert Hall and Jackie Gleason Theatre, the Copenhagen Opera House, and the National Galleries in London and Washington DC. His music has been featured on PBS in America, and on all the major Scandinavian TV channels.
 
'09-'10 season Composer-in-Residence for the 2008 and 2009 Grammy winning Phoenix Chorale, Gjeilo (pronounced Yay-lo) has been commissioned by several elite ensembles, musicians and others worldwide, such as Barbara Bonney, Solveig Kringelborn, Atle Sponberg, Philip Brunelle, the Edvard Grieg Society, St. Olaf College, Luther College, Ensemble Mendelssohn, and Choral Arts Ensemble. His choral music has also been performed by elite choirs such as Kansas City Chorale, Conspirare, World Youth Choir, VocalEssence, Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, BYU Singers, Norwegian Soloists' Choir, and the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation's Radiokören.
 
After studying for his Bachelor's Degree at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, the Royal College of Music in London and the Juilliard School in New York, he completed his Master's Degree in composition at Juilliard in 2006.
 
Ola's publishers include Walton Music, Hinshaw (US), Gehrmans (Sweden), and Musikk-Huset (Norway).
 
Walton Music became the exclusive publisher of Ola Gjeilo's choral music in 2007.
 
For more information about Ola Gjeilo and his music, please visit www.olagjeilo.com