Composers

Gísli Magnússon is a composer and music theory teacher from Reykjavík, Iceland. He frequently seeks inspiration in the nature of his home country, and in some of his works he deliberately depicts natural phenomena, such as waterfalls, lava-fields and geysers. A recurring element in his...

Born in Reykjavík 1962, Sveinn Lúðvík studied classical guitar, piano and singing at TSDK and the Reykjavík College of Music and then for two years, at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. After returning to Iceland he studied composition at the Reykjavík College of Music...

Haukur Tómasson was born in Iceland in 1960. He studied composition at the Cologne Conservatory with Joachim Blume and later with Ton de Leeuw at the Sweelinck Conservatory (1986–7) and at the University of California, San Diego, with Brian Ferneyhough and Roger Reynolds. Tómasson has ...

Þórunn Gréta studied composition at Reykjavík College of Music and completed a pre-diploma in composition in 2008, B.A. in composition at Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2011 and M.Mus. at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in 2014. Her composition teachers were Úlfar Ingi Haral...

Páll P. Pálsson was born in Graz, Austria. He began his musical studies at the Conservatory in Graz with trumpet, violin, piano, composition and later on conducting. He joined the trumpet section of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Graz at the age of 17. In 1948 he was offered the principal...

Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson is an Icelandic composer writing music based on irregular and non-pulse based rhythms. This often requires presenting the music moving on a computer screen.

Atli Heimir Sveinsson is one of the most prominent Icelandic postwar composers with a varied list of works to his credit, including operas, ballet and major orchestral works, widely performed.

Sigurður Sævarsson (b. 1963) studied singing at the Keflavík School of Music, in Iceland, with Árni Sighvatsson before moving to the New Music School in Reykjavík, where his teachers were Sigurður Demetz and Alina Dubik. In 1994, Sigurður commenced studies in singing and composition...

Jón Thórarinsson studied music at the Reykjavík College of Music. He studied composition with Paul Hindemith at Yale University, and at Juilliard School of Music in the U.S. He received his Master of Music degree in 1947. Later he also studied in Germany and Austria. Between 1947 and ...