

Volume 12, Compiled and edited by Andrew Trachsel, 444-454. "Sanctus." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band.

This album was named Best Classical Album of the Year by iTunes in 2012, and was the top-selling album for the prestigious Chandos Records in the USA for 2012. In addition to composing every track on the album, Ola was the pianist for each of his works with piano in the orchestration. His compositions were the focus of a CD recorded with the Phoenix Chorale in 2009 entitled, Northern Lights: Choral Works by Ola Gjeilo.

Gjeilo writes primarily choral music, but has also written for piano and for wind symphony. Gjeilo has permanently resided in New York City since 2006. He continued his education at Juilliard (2004-2006) where he received his Master’s degree in 2006, also in composition. In his undergraduate career, Gjeilo studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music (1999-2001), transferred to the Julliard school (2001), and studied at the Royal College of Music in London (2002-2004) to receive a Bachelor’s Degree in composition. While in high school, Ola was a very good pianist and took composition lessons with Wolfgang Plagge. Ola knew he wanted to be a composer from a very young age. Always relying on his instinctive ability to hear music, he finally learned to read music when he was seven years old. The son of Inge and Anne-May Gjeilo, he began playing piano and composing when he was five years old growing up in the town of Skui, Norway. , Skui, Norway) is a Norwegian-American composer and pianist.
