A jazz musician and composer, Gaute Storaas grew out of the flowering musical environment of the Norwegian city Bergen in the late 70s, and was an active bass player in the local rock and jazz scene. He attended Berklee College of Music Boston in 1984, where he got his diploma in arranging two years later. Back in Norway, Storaas did whatever writing work he could get his hands on. Arranging for shows, broadcasting, recording sessions, composing for commercials, short films, TV idents, etc. He also found some time for music of his own and won the Danish Radio Orchestra competition for younger composers in 1989. The last 20 years have been spent writing predominantly orchestral music for film and TV, ranging from animations to dramas like "The Last Sentence" by legendary Swedish director Jan Troell. Among his acclamations are his 2011 Harpa award for ”Elias and the Treasure of the Sea”, both Grand Scores and Crystal Pine awards for Oscar-nominated motion picture "A Man Called Ove" in 2017, and then another 2020 Harpa award for "Bröllop, Begravning och Dop”. https://www.gautestoraas.no/