About Eirik Myhr
Eirik Myhr (born 1982) is an award-winning composer for theatre, film and television, based in the snowy woods of Asker just outside Oslo, Norway. A full-time composer since 2006, he has written music for some of Norway’s biggest productions for children, including the hit TV series Bo Bear, Hedda Award-winning stage productions such as Astrid Lindgren’s Mio, min Mio, and the feature film Los Bando — internationally the most award-winning Norwegian film of 2018. He maintains long-standing artistic collaborations with stage director Hilde Brinchmann and film director Christian Lo.
Having composed music from early childhood using a mix of drums, keyboards and voice — followed by teenage years in bands ranging from death metal via electronic jazz to art pop — Myhr’s output is as colourful as his background suggests. Guided by the mantra that every project creates a new world, he seeks to paint that world with music: cohesive, distinctive and always in service of the story.
Myhr received the NOPA Music Award in 2013 for his score for the feature film The Tough Guys, and was nominated for the Kanonprisen Award for Best Film Music for Bo Bear’s Vacation in 2019. He also won the Best Comedy Score 2013 award from the film music website Reel Music, with Alexandre Desplat and Henry Jackman among the nominees. In 2022, he received the prestigious Kardemomme Award in recognition of his extensive contributions to music for children and young audiences.
His current solo project lies on the outskirts of chamber pop and art pop, with the EP Wait for It… Vol. 1 finally landing on digital platforms in 2022. The creative struggles behind this work inspired the cult online video series Who the f#% is Eirik Myhr?, in which he explores a sort of meta-irony on his own mental health through a rampage of words, bad animation and archival footage.
Eirik Myhr is a member of TONO, NOPA and the European Film Academy. His publishing and agency representation is provided by GILT.
Photo by Vibeke Glosli
About this site
Welcome to my humble home on the interwebs!
Yes, it's me writing this, because I'm a nerd who wants to do everything myself, including running my own website.
This site mainly contains tons of information about my various projects. There are hours and hours of music clips around too, plus video clips and photos*. At HOME you will find a curated view of some of my recent and more well known – or more personal – projects. If you simply want more, you can go to ALL PROJECTS to get a more extensive view of every film, every TV series, every stage production; yes, pretty much every project I have worked on for the last 18 years.
Thanks for visiting!
–Eirik
* For photos used on this site, I have done my best to credit all the photographers and/or copyright holders, based on the information available. If you notice any missing or erratic credits, do not hesitate to contact me and I will sort it out ASAP.