Tónskáld

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...

Hugi Gudmundsson (Iceland, 1977) studied composition at Reykjavik College of Music with Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson and Úlfar Ingi Haraldsson. In 2005 he finished a Masters degree in composition from the Royal Danish Academy of Music where he studied with Bent Sørensen, Hans Abrahamsen and ...

Jórunn Vidar graduated from the Reykjavik College of Music in 1936 where her main teacher was pianist Árni Kristjánsson. For the next two years she studied in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York during 1943-1945, s...

Ingibjörg Þorbergs was born to Kristjana Sigurbergsdóttir, a homemaker, and Þorbergur Skúlason, a master shoemaker in Reykjavík. Ingibjörg’s brother is Skúli Ólafur Þorbergsson, born on April 3, 1930, married to Guðrún Stefanía Björnsdóttir.

Egill Ólafsson studied voice and music theory at the Reykjavík College of Music 1970-1976. He has also attended various courses in Scandinavia related to theatre music. In recent years Egill has composed incidental music for theatre, motion pictures as well as musicals. Of his musica...

Helgi R. Ingvarsson is a composer based in Brighton, England and Reykjavik, Iceland. His music is premiered and performed in e.g. the Nordic countries and Great Britain and among his works are a whole host of choral works, art songs, instrumental works for chamber groups and seven operas t...

If one disregards composers such as Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Jón Leifs and Þórarinn Jónsson who mostly worked abroad, one can argue that Icelandic instrumental music was not born before the Second World War. Instrumental ensembles, often small wind orchestras, had existed in differ...

Oliver Kentish was born in London and studied the cello at The Royal Academy of Music where his teacher was Vivian Joseph. In 1977 he came to Iceland to play in the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. From 1978-1986 he taught at the Akureyri Music School and now teaches at Nyja Tónlistarskólin...