He grew up in Trondheim, Norway and was educated at the Music Conservatory of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

The motet was commissioned by the festival and was performed during an event with the bishop of Nidaros, Tor Singsaas and the international acclaimed Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann.

He has produced a number of works with the Welsh-Scots poet Euan Tait,[9] including[10] Flight Song (2014), You asked me to speak (a companion piece for Even When He is Silent), Love's Onward Journey, The Call of Peace, Child of Song (all 2015) and a new five movement Christmas work, The Christmas Alleluias (2015).

[11] In 2016 a large scale work called The Wound in the Water, was premiered by the GRAMMY-winning ensemble Conspirare (libretto, Euan Tait).

[12] Three major new works have followed: Holy Spirit Mass, for the National Lutheran Choir and first performed in Washington DC in October 2017; Sing the Earth (Southwestern University Singers and Festival Mass Choir, 2018 Southwestern Music Festival, Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas.

Jonathan E. L. Wall, director); Tuvayhun - Beatitudes for a Wounded World (Premiere in NYC, April 2018, Manhattan Girls' Chorus, dir.

[13] The two latter works, in which the composer has explored new instrumental sonorities, have texts by American lyricist Charles Anthony 'Tony' Silvestri.