The music of Manhattan-based Norwegian composer and pianist Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) has been performed and recorded in more than 25 countries worldwide in venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Los Angeles’ Disney Hall, Miami’s Knight Concert Hall and Jackie Gleason Theatre, the Copenhagen Opera House, and the National Galleries in London and Washington DC. His music has been featured on PBS in America, and on all the major Scandinavian TV channels.

Gjeilo (pronounced Yay-lo) has been commissioned by several ensembles, musicians and others worldwide, such as Barbara Bonney (New England Songs, 2005), Solveig Kringelborn, Atle Sponberg, Phoenix Chorale, Philip Brunelle, the Edvard Grieg Society, St. Olaf College, Ensemble Mendelssohn, Choral Arts Ensemble, and Voces Nordicae. His choral music has also been performed by elite choirs such as Kansas City Chorale, Conspirare, World Youth Choir, VocalEssence, Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, BYU Singers, Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, and the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation’s Radiokören.

Ola’s first solo piano recording, Stone Rose, was released in October, 2007 on the Grammy® nominated label 2L and is available in stores worldwide, as well as on amazon.com and iTunes. Here, he performs his own lyrical music in the crossroads between classical and jazz, sometimes also supported by cello, violin and flugelhorn.

After studying for his Bachelor’s Degree at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, the Royal College of Music in London and the Juilliard School in New York, he completed his Master’s Degree in composition at Juilliard in 2006.  

Ola’s publishers include Walton Music, Hinshaw (US), and Musikk-Huset (Norway). Walton became the exclusive publisher of his choral music in 2007.

For more information, please visit www.olagjeilo.com