Ólavur Jakobsen

Studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with Ingolf Olsen and received his masters diploma exam in 1995.

Per Nørgård, Axel Borup-Jørgensen, Pierre Dørge, Sunleif Rasmussen, Edvard Nyholm Debess, Kári Bæk, Tróndur Bogason and Kristian Blak and has worked with composers such as Gavin Bryars and Hsueh-Yung Shen.

He has also worked as a sessions musician with a number of popular artists e.g. Hanus G., Teitur, Ernst Sondum Dalsgard, Runi Brattaberg and Hakan Hagegard as well as Brandenburgische Staatsorchester in Frankfurt, Germany, Icelandic Ensemble CAPUT and Danish orchestra Collegium Musicum.

He co-founded and then formerly served as the artistic director of the Faroese chamber ensemble Aldubáran[2] and now continues as an active musician and board member.

[3][4][5] Ólavur Jakobsen currently lives in Hoyvík near Tórshavn and is active in promoting Faroese music and touring as a soloist and chamber musician.