Håvard grew up in a little village Inndyr just north of the Arctic Circle in the North Norway. He attended the school band as a clarinettist, and he has stayed with that instrument ever since, from age 9, the last years mostly focusing on his bass clarinet. Moving from classical music into improvised music, age 18 and then forth and back for more than 30 years, you could now say that Håvard is one of the most experienced multi-genre musicians in Norway. As a parallel to his playing, it has also been of great importance to compose music. The combination between his high level of performance and composing, makes him very personal and with an easy-to-spot- identity. It appears that his written structures come from an intuitive, improvised musical origin- more than an intellectual. Håvard says he tries to compose so the compositions sounds improvised, and improvise so his music sounds like composed. His professional carrier since finishing the jazz dep. at the conservatory in Trondheim, Norway, in 1993, has contented music for a number of theater projects for the largest scenes in Norway, in combination with own concert productions and music for other musicians. Since 2002 he has only done concerts, and he says that its now fun to bring theater into music, both through dramaturgical lines, but also with actors reading and playing as a part of the score.