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Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson (b.1938) studied piano at the Reykjavík College of Music, then continued his education in the United States. He attended Hamline University, Minnesote, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completing a master´s degree in composition in 1961 under t...

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 ...

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.

Composer, jazz musician, percussionist, teacher. He is the first Icelandic composer who, from the start of his artistic career, has been mainly attracted to jazz. After World War II he played as a vibraphone player in many different Icelandic groups. He was also percussionist in the Icelan...

Thordur Magnusson is a prolific composer, arranger, orchestrator and engraver. He’s not only a respected classical composer but is also in great demand as an arranger. His mastery in arranging various styles of music is unique and his arrangements include all types of instrumental combin...

One of the most important figures in the current flowering of Icelandic music is Hafliði Hallgrímsson, born in 1941 in the small town of Akureyri on the north coast of Iceland. He began playing the cello at the age of ten and studied in Reykjavík and the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome....

Studied Composition and Theory at Reykjavik College of Music under Atli Heimir Sveinsson and Thorsteinn Hauksson. He continued his studies at the Vienna Conservatorium under Reinhold Portisch with emphasis on compostion and renaissance-counterpoint. Baldvinsson is now head of the departmen...

Finnur Torfi Stefánsson graduated from the University of Iceland in 1972 as Cand.Jur, and received a degree in political science from the University of Manchester, England in 1974. He worked as a lawyer and was active on the political scene in Iceland as a municipal council member, and a...