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Hafdís Bjarnadóttir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 17 August 1977. She started playing electric guitar at the age of 12 with the focus on rock and folk music, playing with bands and writing her own music. She graduated in jazz guitar performance from the FÍH School of Music, Icela...

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...

Foreldrar Ingibjargar voru hjónin Kristjana Sigurbergsdóttir húsmóðir og Þorbergur Skúlason, skósmíðameistari í Reykjavík. Bróðir Ingibjargar er Skúli Ólafur Þorbergsson, fæddur 3. apríl 1930, kvæntur Guðrúnu Stefaníu Björnsdóttur.

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 ...

Gunnar Andreas Kristinsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1976. He studied composition at the Reykjavik College of Music from 1997 - 2001 with Kjartan Olafsson and Atli H. Sveinsson. In 1999-2000 he went as an exchange student to study with Krzysztof Meyer at the Musikhochschule in C...

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...

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...

Played by the best orchestras, ensembles and soloists, his music reflects a powerful sense of drama. The variety of rhythms and sounds, the combination of lyrical and percussive moments, give to his compositions a unique intensity.