Morten Gaathaug

Morten Gaathaug (born 20 April 1955) is from Sande in Vestfold. He completed a degree in piano and music education theory at Barratt Due Music Institute in the spring of 1978. There he studied composition with Johan Kvandal, counterpoint with Olve Borgir, and piano with Kari Edgren Gierløff. In the winter of 1981–82, he was the recipient of a Slovakian government scholarship to study at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava, where his teachers were Eva Fischerová (piano) and Vladimír Bokes (composition). While a student there, his first string quartet was premiered on Slovakian Radio. Later he completed degree work at the University of Oslo and continued piano studies with Hanna Marie Weydahl and Jens Harald Bratlie. He has a Master’s degree in composition from the Norwegian Academy of Music.