He is known from a series of album releases and collaborations with jazz musicians such as Norma Winstone, Karin Krog, Terje Rypdal, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Chet Baker, Jack DeJohnette and Warne Marsh.

[2][3][4] Storås was born in Bergen, and studied music at the U-Phils High School in Bergen before attending the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1982–84),[5] what today is the Department of Music Technology (NTNU), where he was the leader of the Bodega Band (1990–1996),[1][6] and is now Assistant Professor.

[8] During 1992 to 1995 Storaas joined the international jazz profiles Karin Krog and John Surman, and he participated on the record Nordic Quartet from 1994.

More recently he has performed in a quartet with students (at NTNU) Tore Johansen (trumpet), Rune Nergaard (bass) and Gard Nilssen (drums).

[4] In 1999 he performed commissioned work Mosaic at Vossajazz, The International Jazz Festival at Voss, Norway.