Roar Kvam is living in Akureyri, Iceland 

He graduated from the Music Conservatory in Oslo, Norway where he studied choral music and conducting with Trygve Lindeman, orchestra conducting with Øyvin Fjeldstad and composition with Finn Mortensen. He have studied wind band conducting in Holland with Henk van Lijnschooten and in Norway with Trevor Ford.
Kvam have been composing since age 15 and has many works in print. He was the director for the oratorio choir "Passíukórinn á Akureyri" for 25 years, Akureyri Male Choir "Geysir" for 10 years, Akureyri Chamber Orchestra for 5 years, Akureyri Music School Windband for 25 years, Akureyri Theater Choir for 10 years. He founded the women's choir Kvennakórinn EMBLA in 2002 and have conducted them since.