Background
Moen was born in Kristiansand.
Moen was born in Kristiansand.
He is known to have programmed drums in the band Blood Red Throne, and playing the keyboards in Green Carnation. He is also known as the keyboardist in ultra jazz/metal band Shining and collaborations with artists like Trygve Seim, Magne Furuholmen and Petter Wettre. He has been involved in a series of metal bands, and is now associate professor in performing rhythmic piano at the University of Agder, next to his career as performer.
He has his education from Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, California, Norges Musikkhøgskole in Oslo and Berklee College of Music, and has worked as a piano teacher in a number of institutions.
Within his own studio ("Medical adgang Steinway"), his own recording equipment and own label (Brooklyn Academy of Music Records), he made is debut as solo artist in 2011, with three album releases, Closure featuring recordings from the period 2006-2010, together with Fredrik Sahlander (bass) and Trygve Tambs-Lychè (drums), except the uptempo avalanche "FXG", where Geir Åge Johnsen takes care of the drums. The two solo albums are from a more resent date, recorded January (Vol1) and in May (Vol2).
The repertoire on both is dominated by relatively short improvisations, often lyrical, quiet and with very deliberate use of pauses. But both are also proceeding showing a pianist with technique, including sound therapy, which enables him to exploit the instrument"s sonic potential of slender tone migrations to deafening crescendi with his speedy fingers.
2011: Spellemannprisen "This year"s innovator" within Shining.