Gjeilo has permanently resided in New York City since 2006. He continued his education at Juilliard (2004-2006) where he received his Master’s degree in 2006, also in composition. In his undergraduate career, Gjeilo studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music (1999-2001), transferred to the Julliard school (2001), and studied at the Royal College of Music in London (2002-2004) to receive a Bachelor’s Degree in composition.
While in high school, Ola was a very good pianist and took composition lessons with Wolfgang Plagge. Ola knew he wanted to be a composer from a very young age. Always relying on his instinctive ability to hear music, he finally learned to read music when he was seven years old. The son of Inge and Anne-May Gjeilo, he began playing piano and composing when he was five years old growing up in the town of Skui, Norway. , Skui, Norway) is a Norwegian-American composer and pianist.
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