Education
Sunde has a diploma in composition from the Norwegian Academy of Music (1995) in Oslo, where he studied under guidance of Olav Anton Thommessen, Bjørn Kruse, Lasse Thoresen and Alfred Janson.
Sunde has a diploma in composition from the Norwegian Academy of Music (1995) in Oslo, where he studied under guidance of Olav Anton Thommessen, Bjørn Kruse, Lasse Thoresen and Alfred Janson.
His diploma work Festina lente is available on the album Absolute Pling-Plong: Eight ways of making music, performed by the BIT20 Ensemble. During his studies he was awarded "Work of the Year" by NOPA (now Edvardprisen), together with Anneli Drecker and Nils Johansen from the band Belorussian Canto, for the work "Tierre Obletz" (1993). Sunde was awarded the Spellemannprisen 1990 within the band Oslo Groove Company, and was also nominated within Sharp9 (2004), as well as within Norske Store Orkester (2006) as Sunde also is musical director for (since 2005).
His compositions has been written for and performed by ensembles like Kringkastingsorkesteret, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester, Oslo Sinfonietta He has also contributed to the show "Barnas Supershow" on Norwegian television Norsk Rikskringkasting. Sunde collaborates in the Ophelia Orchestra and has contributed to releases by Ole Paus (Biggle"s testamente, 1992), Motorpsycho (Let"em eat cake, 2000) and Trygve Seim (Sangam, 2004).
1990: Spellemannprisen in the class "Jazz" for the album Anno 1990, within the band Oslo Groove Company.
1990: Spellemannprisen in the class "Jazz" for the album Anno 1990, within the band Oslo Groove Company 1993: NOPA"s award (now Edvardprisen) in the class "Work of the Year" for the work "Tierre Obletz", together with the Belorussian Canto musicians Anneli Drecker and Nils Johansen 2013: Edvardprisen in the "Open class" for the album Windfall.
