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==Websites==
==Websites==
:[http://roarkvam.com Web Site]   
:[http://roarkvam.com Web Site]   
:[http://kvam.est.is/engraving NorMusic Engraving]   
:[http://kvam.est.is/engraving KVAMusic Engraving]   
:[http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/kvam My Sibelius Sheet Music Shop]
:[http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/kvam My Score Exchange Sheet Music Shop]
:[http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/kvamusic-edition-sheet-music/3003046?ac=1 My Sheet MusicPlus Sheet Music Shop]
:[http://kvam.est.is/choirlink/ Male Choir International Index]
:[http://kvam.est.is/choirlink/ Male Choir International Index]
:[http://kvam.est.is/iskor/ Directory of Icelandic Choirs]
:[http://kvam.est.is/iskor/ Directory of Icelandic Choirs]

Revision as of 12:26, 6 July 2015

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
IS-601 Akureyri
ICELAND
E-mail
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.