Church music
Apeland is a graduate in performing Church music at the Rogaland Musikkonservatorium (1988) and ethnomusicology from University of Bergen (1998), before he as fellow at Griegakademiet completed his Dr. art. with the thesis "Kyrkjemusikkdiskursen: Musikklivet i Den norske kyrkja som diskursiv praksis" (Church music discourse: The music scene in the Norwegian church as discursive practice, 2005).