Bio

I grew up in the town Bodø in Northern Norway. After a while I moved south and have now settled in central Oslo.

At 16, I discovered the banjo by chance and immediately fell in love with the sound of bluegrass music and the weird instrument with its distinctive sound. It didn't take long for me to figure out that I wanted to devote my life to the banjo. Since then, I have studied music teaching at Nord University, music theory at the Norwegian Academy of Music and musicology at the University of Oslo, all with the five string banjo as my main instrument.

I have toured with many different bands all over Norway, and many countries in Europe. I have also been able to go over to the US a couple of times to meet my banjo heroes, and educate myself about bluegrass music and banjo playing with lessons and at workshops.

The last years have given me many opportunities to perform as a singer, and I sing lead and/or high tenor harmony in most of my musical projects.

Together with band colleagues Jakob Folke Ossum and Nikolai Storevik, I launched the bluegrass music school Grasrota Musikkskole in 2020. The school offers private banjo, guitar, fiddle and mandolin lessons.

Since 2018, I have been booking and arranging the bluegrass concert series Bluegrassaften Oslo.