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"I am a musician. Music is my profession, my heart, my soul, my spirit, and my life. Nothing else will ever satisfy me."

All my life, I’ve been a musician. It has been the air I breathe, the food I eat, the water I drink. Music is where my heart, my soul, and my spirit live. Without music, I am nothing but a shell.

I was born in Bergen, Norway on January 28, 1985. I lived in Bergen for three years before moving to Southern California, in the Redlands area, in 1988. After eleven years there, I moved to Beaverton, Oregon, where I lived for four years. I lived on-campus at Warner Pacific College for five years before moving into an apartment off SE 39th and Holgate in Portland, Oregon.

My active pursuit of music began in first grade when I joined the Loma Linda University Church’s Cherub Choir. For two years I was a part of choir, learning to memorize large amounts of music and perform in front of large audiences in an ensemble format. During sixth grade, I joined school band, learning how to play trombone. For the next five years, I would spend my energy playing in concert, marching, and cover bands. During my Junior year of high school, I returned to choir.

My Junior and Senior years were focused mostly on choir as I became an important part of building the choir program at my school, Arts and Communication Magnet Academy. I personally involved myself all the choir activities and functions. I was the choir director’s personal assistant, stage manager, techie, and roadie. I was also an active co-leader of the Choir Fund Raiser Committee.

Near the end of my Junior year, I joined my brother Troy’s solo music project as his backup vocalist. Together with our bassist, Erik Iverson, we formed Troy Keyn and the Vintage. We performed all over Portland and received a great deal of praise from our audiences.

Throughout my life, I have performed at many different venues. Some of them include: Loma Linda University Church; the Rose Bowl; Disneyland; the Multnomah Athletic Club; the Grotto; Capitol Coffee House and Bistro; the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall; the Newmark Theatre; St. Peter's Cathedral of Worms, Germany; and many others.

I began composing near my Junior year in high school, where I composed pieces for the artistic element of class projects. In December 2004, I wrote the first two pieces (my "Oboe Sonatina No.1" and an arrangement of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel") that would solidify my resolve to become a composer. Since then, I have written upwards of about eighty pieces of music (of which forty-eight were written in 2005 and twenty-six were written in 2006).

I am a graduate of Warner Pacific College, holding a Bachelor's in music with an emphasis in music theory and composition. During college, I sang bass in both Concert Choir and the Warner Chorale, though I'm actually a low baritone. Having graduated from Warner Pacific College, I will now work for my Master’s and my Doctorate degrees. Once I have achieved them, I will move to Ireland, where I will immerse myself in the Celtic music community and learn all that I can for a few years. I will specifically try to learn how to play the Uillean pipes. I will then return to the United States and begin a solo career. Once I feel that I have the skills and experience and I’ve built up enough money, I will found an institution for the entertainment arts that is geared towards students who show great talent and discipline, but may not be the best academically (like myself).

ACMA		WPC
	"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle
Arts and Communication Magnet Academy acma	"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." -Elbert Hubbard "He removes the greatest orniment of friendship, he who takes away from it respect." -Cicero	Warner Pacific College warnerpacific

However, to give you an idea of who I am, you need more than just this brief description of my history and my plans. This is only the surface of who I am. If there’s one word that applies to my character better than any other, it’s “deep”. I am a complex person, full of paradoxes and confusing concepts. I am as diverse as the music that surrounds me. To truly understand me, you would have to first understand every note of every piece of music… Or you can take my word for things.


“Life is like a field full of puddles that no one can avoid: One can either stand still or stride proudly, getting completely drenched.”

-Kenneth Edward Keyn