Lars Hegaard studied the guitar with Ingolf Olsen at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music and composition with Niels Viggo Bentzon (1975-76) and Ib Nørholm (1977-80) at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. 1983 he was awarded the three-year grant of the National Arts Foundation and since then he has received annual working grants. Besides extensive music teaching activities he has composed almost eighty works for different ensembles, from solo music to orchestral works, including three symphonies.