Composers

Mist Thorkelsdóttir studied piano and harpsichord at the Reykjavík College of Music. In 1982, she received a B.A. degree from Hamline University, where she studied composition with Russel G. Harris. She continued composition studies with Lejaren Hiller and Morton Feldman at the State...

Páll Ísólfsson studied music, mainly the organ with Karl Straube in Leipzig (1913-18). He was an assistant and substitute organist at St. Thomas´ Church in Leipzig 1917-1919. Further studies with Joseph Bonnet in Paris 1925.

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...

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 ...

Jon Nordal was born in 1926. He studied piano and composition at the Reykjavik College of Music with Arni Kristjansson, Jon Thorarinsson and Victor Urbancic. He pursued further studies in Zürich with Walter Frey and Willy Burkhard in 1949-1951. Later came years of study in Copenhagen, Par...

Sigvaldi Kaldalóns composed many of Iceland´s most famous and widely performed songs, yet he was mostly self taught in music. His compositional output is vast, considering that he only composed in his spare time, while working as a doctor in some of Iceland´s most remote districts. He w...

Ingibjörg Azima is a trombone player and a composer. Ingibjörg gradueted from Academy of music in Gothenburg in 1999 and in 2000 from the Conservatiore of Copenhagen after one year of further studies. Ingibjörg Azima also studied choir conducting at the University of Uppsala in 2007-200...

Jón Ásgeirsson attended the Reykjavík College of Music, studying with Árni Kristjánsson, Dr. Victor Urbancic and Jón Thórarinsson. He continued his education at the Royal Scottish College of Music in Glasgow, and at the Guildhall School of Music in London. In 1996, he was appointed ...