Bio Ólavur Jakobsen was born 1964 in Tórshavn in The Faroe Islands. His family consists of artists and musicians. He was largely self-thaught as a classical guitarist before  he commenced his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen in Denmark with guitarist Ingolf Olsen and received his diploma exam in 1995. Further studies in Paris with French guitarist Roland Dyens. Has participated in masterclasses with e.g. Sir Julian Bream, David Russell and Goran Sollscher. Worked for some years as a freelance musician in Copenhagen and was member of the Copenhagen based Corona Guitar Quartet, touring extensively as chamber musician and soloist. As a soloist he has toured extensively in Europe and  the USA and South Africa. Has premièred a vast number of compositions by Danish and Faroese and leading international composers e.g. Per Nørgård, Gavin Bryars, Thorkell Sigurbjørnsson, Hsueh-Yung Shen, Axel Borup-Jørgensen, Pierre Dørge, Sunleif Rasmussen, Kári Bæk, Tróndur Bogason, Edvard N. Debess and Kristian Blak. Worked as a sessions musician with a number of popular artists as well as Icelandic Ensemble CAPUT and Danish Orchestra COLLEGIUM MUSICUM as well as arranging and producing.  He is co-founder of the Faroese chamber ensemble Aldubáran. Lives in The Faroe Islands and divides his time to performing, touring and promoting Faroese music and being active in music life in his country teaching and producing. In this area you can write about yourself and your accomplishments including your birth date, history, work history, connections or any other information that will describe your strengths and weaknesses, Below is an example of what you may want to write about. Her er standard skriftin, men hon er eftir mínum tykki ov lítil: In the 90s you made many stage and screen appearances, including "The Flippy Brothers", "The House that Fell Over", "I Can't For The Life Of Me", and "Where Is The Potato Salad", directed by Richard Donner with you appearing as Phil's friend's second cousin on his mother side. It also starred Ruth Buzzi, Harry Hamlin, Gary Coleman and Danny Bonaduce among others. Additional film credits include "Nice Coconuts" (as the lost person), "Operation Dumbo Drop", Waterworld (as a fish), The "World According to Reginald" (as a park bench), "Why Don't They Write", the animated feature "Barry Badger" as the voice of Barry's brother Art, and "Noisy World" (as the crowd). In 2000 and 2001 you appeared in "I Lost My Drunk Sister", "Flapjacks!", then as Winona in the thought-provoking MBC series "For The Love Of Monkeys", and as yourself in the short film, "We Would Give This Film A Shorter Name But Then We Could Not Use So Many Letters In The Title And That Would Be Less Interesting, Wouldn't It?". You have been in a total of 163 movies, 211 stage plays, and an estimated 435 television shows. End