Kvam 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 has been composing since age 15 and has many works in print. He was the director for the oratorio choir "Passiukorinn a 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 fouded the women's choir Kvennakorinn EMBLA in 2002 and have conducted them since then. He is also the owner and director of his own music school "Tonskoli Roars" since 1992.
He has done music engraving jobs for Iceland Music Information Center from 1992 and others from 1985.

Albumblad/Album-leaf (Wind Sextet) by Edvard Grieg (arr.), mixed ensemble, $7.95
Canzon Quarti Toni (3 Brass Quintets) mixed ensemble, $7.95
Fanitull/The Devil's Tune (Wind Band) by Ole Olsen (arr.), wind/brass band, $9.95
Fantasia in G (Brass Band) by Johann Sebastian Bach (arr.), wind/brass band, $9.95
Fedrelandssang/National Song (Brass Quintet) by Edvard Grieg (arr.), brass quartet/quintet, $2.95
Freu dich sehr (3 Trumpets, Timpani and Organ) by J.S. Bach (arr.), mixed ensemble, $3.00
Halleluja from Messiah (3 Trumpets, Timpani and Organ) by G.F. Handel (arr.), mixed ensemble, $6.00
Hjertesår/Heart's Wounds (Brass Quintet) by Edvard Grieg (arr.), brass quartet/quintet, $3.95
Hyldingsmarsj/Triumphal March (6 Horns and Tuba) by Edvard Grieg (arr.), mixed ensemble, $9.95
Invention a 3 (3 Trumpets) by J.S. Bach (arr.), trio (of the same instrument), $2.95
Invention No. 1 (Horn and Tuba) by J.S. Bach (arr.), mixed ensemble, FREE
Invention No. 2 (Horn and Tuba) by J.S. Bach (arr.), mixed ensemble, $2.95
Invention No. 3 (Horn and Tuba) by J.S. Bach (arr.), mixed ensemble, $2.95
Jesu, Come Let Us Praise Thee (3 Trumpets, Timpani and Organ) by J.S. Bach (arr.), mixed ensemble, $4.00
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (SSA Choir and Guitar Ensemble) by J.S. Bach (arr.), choir (with or without keyboard), $3.95
La Réjouissance (3 Trumpets, Timpani and Organ) by G.F.Handel (arr.), mixed ensemble, $2.00
Lobe den Herren/Praise ye, Almighty God (3 Trumpets, Timpani and Organ) by J.S. Bach (arr.), mixed ensemble, $2.95
Matrosenes Oppsang/Sailor's Song (Brass Quintet) by Edvard Grieg (arr.), brass quartet/quintet, $2.95
O Holy Night (SSA Choir, Sopran solo ad lib and Guitar Ensemble) by Adolphe-Charles Adam (arr.), choir (with or without keyboard), $5.95
Peer Gynt Overture Op. 23 No. 1 (Wind Band) by Edvard Grieg (arr.), wind/brass band, $9.95
Prelude de Te Deum (3 Trumpets, Timpani and Organ) by Marc - Antoine Charpentier (arr.), mixed ensemble, $3.00
Sanctus from Deutsche Messe (3 Trumpets, Timpani and Organ) by Franz Schubert (arr.), mixed ensemble, $2.00
Silent Night (SSAA Choir, Soprano duet, Guitar(s) and Bass ad lib.) by Franz Xavier Gruber (arr.), choir (with or without keyboard), $3.95
Sinfonia No. 5 (Horn, Trombone and Tuba) by J.S. Bach (arr.), mixed ensemble, $2.95
Trolltog/March of the Dwarfs (Brass Quintet) by Edvard Grieg (arr.), brass quartet/quintet, $5.95
VÃ¥ren/Last Spring (Brass Quintet) by Edvard Grieg (arr.), brass quartet/quintet, $5.95