Areas of responsibility
Per Elias Drabløs (b.1967) originally from Orkdal, Sør-Trøndelag, started his music studies in Kristiansand in 1987.
Experience:
Regular member of the music group Secret Garden (www.secretgarden.no) since 1996.
The band has 113 platinum albums worldwide and more than 8 billion streams on top of 5 million physical albums, and performs regularly in USA, England, China, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Ireland and Norway. Also performances in Taiwan, Canada, Singapore, Luxembourg, Poland, Malaysia, Turkey, Portugal and Mexico.
Drabløs has also recorded and toured with a number of Scandinavian artists, covering a vast number of genres, and has participated on more than 90 released albums.
At UiA:
- Principal instrument electric bass
- Lecturer/supervisor master programme popular music
Education:
- 2006–2010 PhD Programme, Norwegian Academy of Music (supervisor Stan Hawkins).
- 1997 Players School of Music, Fl, USA (Jeff Berlin).
- 1991–1992 Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen, DK (Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Bo Stief, Jon Bruland).
- 1987–1991 Agder Musikkonservatorium (Bjørn Kjellemyr, Terje Gewelt).
Topics of interest:
- Popular musicology
- Performance practice