Arild Jensen NORWAY

Arild studied music at the conservatory in Drammen and in Oslo. His main instrument was classical guitar. In this period he played classical concerts and also, his interest in jazz developed.
After studies Arild worked as a music teacher and freelance composer/arranger/musician, playing el. guitar and classical guitar, keyboards, bass and also mandolin and oud.



Arild started his career with production for films with music and sound design for two TV-serials for children (NRK) and sound design for an animated short movie («Ridder», by Hedvig Lien). In 2013 - 2014 he studied film music composition in Lillehammer.


During the last four years Arild has made music for several  TV documentary films (NRK and TV2), and commissioned films/commercials. Arild writes music in various genres and and styles. He has written and arranged music for choirs, classical guitar, chamber-music, musicals, music for strings, jazzbands and recorded jazz, electronic and pop-music.
He is composer and guitarist with his jazzband (Lystjazzensemblet), available on all streaming platforms.