Swedish double bass player living in Norway. He has studied with Göran Nyberg , Professor Knut Guettler at the Norwegian Academy of Music and with Gary Karr in the USA .

1982 – 1988 Styffe was solo bassist in the Norwegian Opera's orchestra, then in the Oslo Philharmonic , where he is alternating solo bassist. Styffe is also 1st bass player in the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and associate professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music . He also teaches at the Barratt Due Music Institute's college department. As a soloist with the Oslo Philharmonic, conductors Rolf Gupta , Peter Szilvay and soloists Peter Herresthal , Øystein Birkeland , Catherine Bullock , he won the Spellemann prize 2009 in the category contemporary music for Low Jive