Steingrimur Rohloff studied composition with Krzysztof Meyer at the Musikhochschule Köln. In 1999, he was selected for a course at IRCAM in Paris and from 2001 to 2003 he studied electronic music with Hans-Ulrich Humpert. Steingrimur has received numerous prizes for his compositions, and his works have been performed in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Greece, USA Japan and China.