Composers

Halldór Smárason was born in Iceland in 1989. He completed an Advanced Level Piano Examination in the spring of 2009 concurrently with his college graduation, and holds a B.A.-degree in composition from the Iceland Academy of the Arts and an M.M.-degree in classical composition from the ...

Karolina Eiriksdottir was born in Reykjavík. She studied at the Reykjavik College of Music, where Thorkell Sigurbjornsson was her teacher of composition. She continued her studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with George Wilson and William Albright as teachers of composition...

Hailing from the peripheries of Iceland, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir “elemental style” (Steve Smith, The New Yorker) follows inner logics when approaching composition, often integrating sound and other phenomena into an indivisible whole - creating mutable, breathing, living structures...

Gunnar Karel was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1984. He started studying music at an early age and has played a diverse range of instruments. 
As a composer Gunnar mainly focuses on chamber music as he finds that his music gets the attention it deserves in smaller setups.
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Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir completed a B.A. degree in composition from the Reykjavík College of Music in 1989. She continued her studies in Hamburg with Professor Günther Friedrichs, and in Copenhagen with Dr. Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen. Hildigunnur has sung in a number of choirs, among t...

Sigurður Árni Jónsson is an Icelandic composer and conductor residing in Sweden.

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 ...

Finnur Karlsson has been called “with out a doubt one of the most noteworthy composers of his generation” and his music has been described as “honest and sincere” and “…captivatingly beautiful”.

Atli Ingólfsson was born in Iceland on August 21, 1962. He received his first music education in the native town of Njardvik, studying guitar and harmony, and had already composed a couple of small pieces before moving to Reykjavík where he entered the theory and composition department o...