Gaute Storaas NORWAY
HARPA nominated 2017 for his score for 'En man som heter Ove'
Born and raised in Norway (Bergen,) and from early on a member of the local rock and jazz scene. Moved to Oslo after graduating from Berklee College of Music, Boston, in 1986, major in arranging.
New in town, no project was too small, but trying to get as much film related work as possible was always a priority. This led to being selected to write all the ident music for the launch of TV2, the main commercial tv channel in Norway, in 1992.
Since then, time has been divided between arranging for recording artists, (among them Black Metal greats «Dimmu Borgir» and classical trumpet virtuoso «Tine Thing Helseth», and writing for film and tv, with a significant focus on film composing the last 15 years. A highlight has been scoring the legendary swedish director Jan Troell´s biographical drama “The last Sentence” in 2012. Another recent film, «A Man called Ove» (2015,) became the third best selling Swedish movie through history, and is currently travelling the world and has won a lot of prizes - and is also nominated for an Oscar. Also worth mentioning is the score for «Elias and the Treasure of the Sea, which received the Harpa Award 2011.
February 2017 Gaute Storaas won the Grand Scores for 'En man som heter Ove'.
Gaute Storaas is a member of the European Film Academy
HARPA nominated 2017 for his score for 'En man som heter Ove'
Born and raised in Norway (Bergen,) and from early on a member of the local rock and jazz scene. Moved to Oslo after graduating from Berklee College of Music, Boston, in 1986, major in arranging.
New in town, no project was too small, but trying to get as much film related work as possible was always a priority. This led to being selected to write all the ident music for the launch of TV2, the main commercial tv channel in Norway, in 1992.
Since then, time has been divided between arranging for recording artists, (among them Black Metal greats «Dimmu Borgir» and classical trumpet virtuoso «Tine Thing Helseth», and writing for film and tv, with a significant focus on film composing the last 15 years. A highlight has been scoring the legendary swedish director Jan Troell´s biographical drama “The last Sentence” in 2012. Another recent film, «A Man called Ove» (2015,) became the third best selling Swedish movie through history, and is currently travelling the world and has won a lot of prizes - and is also nominated for an Oscar. Also worth mentioning is the score for «Elias and the Treasure of the Sea, which received the Harpa Award 2011.
February 2017 Gaute Storaas won the Grand Scores for 'En man som heter Ove'.
Gaute Storaas is a member of the European Film Academy
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Nomination text
A MAN CALLED OVE is a riveting, dark comedy about a grouchy pensioner who tries to control his neighbourhood, only to be confronted with the lack of control as new people and forces invade his comfort zone. For this film, Gaute Storaas provides a playful score that underlines the duality in Ove's personality – from the strict march depicting his routine life to the tender orchestrations for piano, strings and woodwinds mirroring his heart beneath the gruff exterior. Storaas' score is firmly within a classical, European and Scandinavian tradition that is appropriately restrained when needed – emotional without being too melodramatic. The music develops wonderfully throughout the film, alongside the protagonist himself, ending on a heartbreaking, bittersweet note. The Norwegian jury considers this the best Norwegian film score of the preceding year. |