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Published on Saturday, 26 March 2011 17:01
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Jon

I was born in Fredrikstad, Norway, in 1953, and have allways lived in my hometown.

1974 - 1978 I Was a factory worker at Jackon AS, Fredrikstad. In 1978 I was a student at University of Oslo, Norway. I was studying there for 5 years and was reading Math, Music and History. I graduated in 1982.

Today I am a teacher in upper secondary school (St.Olav vgs, Sarpsborg), lectuering in math, history and social science, educated at the University of Oslo. I was playing soccer football for ØIL, Fredrikstad from 1972-1986.

Music activities:

Besides a lot of singing in Norway, I've had some gigs in South Africa (Korluren),  Sweden, Germany and England (Foghorn) and in Denmark (Glomma Swingers & Harpen). Member of:

  1. Fredrikstad sangkor (Harpen) 1982-1994
  2. Glomma Swingers 1984 -
  3. Fredrikstad FolkemusikkForum - FFF 1991 -
  4. Citadell Musica 1994 - 2004 (I was one of the founding members in 1994)
  5. Korluren 1996 -
  6. Foghorn 1998 -

Home Studio:

  1. Cubase (user since 1996, before VST technology appeared)
  2. WaveLab,
  3. Melodyne Editor,
  4. MDrummer,
  5. IK-amplitube3,

And more

Jon