Education
Tvinnereim attended the Toneheim Folkehøgskole (2000-2001), and continued his vocal studies at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen, and he earned a Bachelor"s degree at the Institute of Music in Trondheim at Trondheim Musikkonsevatorium (Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet), with Professors Kåre Bjørkøy and Harald Bjørkøy. He has since 2006, been a resident of Zurich, Switzerland, where he has completed his "Konzertdiplom" and "Soloist Diploma" at the Academy of Music in Zurich. Tvinnereim also attended numerous masterclasses with such as Ileana Cotrubaş, Werner Güra, Jill Feldmann, Hans-Peter Blochwitz, Susanna Eken, Håkan Hagegård, Anne-Lise Berntsen and was a student of the class Lied pianist Hartmut Höll.
Career
He has in recent years been much used as a concert singer in Switzerland, Germany and Scandinavia, and in the season 08/09 he performed as "young artist" at the opera in Basel where he cased several significant roles. After further studies with Professor Scot Weir and the Song class with Hartmut Hölls at the University for Music and Theater Zurich in March 2009, he made his concert diploma with honors in June 2011, the soloist diploma. Tvinnereims repertoire ranges widely from lieder to church music and opera.
Especially in church music, his lyrical voice has been used in the evangelist and arias for the performances of works like Saint John Passion, Saint Matthew Passion, Markus Passion, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat and various cantatas and Masses of Bach, Handel"s Messiah, Theodora, Belshazzar, Solomon and Dixit Dominus, The Creation of J.Haydn and Mozart and J. M. Haydn"s Requiem et cetera
He made his stage debut as Tamino in The Magic Flute at the opera in Biel/Solothurn a production of Schweizer Opernstudio and the role of Peter Quint in Britten"s opera "The Turn of the Screw" during the Festival of the Arts in Zurich 2007. In recent years, he has given concerts in many parts of Switzerland, Germany and Norway and sung the operas in Geneva, Basel, Street.Gallen, Bergen (The New Opera) Tromsø (Opera North) and Szeged (Hungary), as well as soloist performances in Norwegian and German national radio and television
He recited famous arias from operas, operettas and musicals, together with the award winning Norwegian soprano Ann-Helen Moen at the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival 2013.
Membership
In the season 2008/09, he was engaged as a member of the Young Artist Program at Opera in Basel, Switzerland which was heard in a number of different productions set.
