…working on a big new orchestra piece which will be premiered next season - I really enjoy dwelling in the long form and finding connections and trajectories through the large musical forces… * more soon * #newmusic #writingmusic

CATAMORPHOSIS is in Helsinki tonight and tomorrow with @helsinkiphilharmonic & @pekkakuusistomusician 🩶 I am there in spirit too 🦄

Heyr þú oss himnum á is featured on The King’s Singers new contemplative album 🎶 @kingssingers 🩶

It was so special to be with @cellistjohannesmoser and the @helsinkiphilharmonic for the Finnish premiere of Before we fall earlier this month - Johannes embodies the music so magnificently and the orchestra was incredible under the baton of their maestro @jpsaraste . The performance is available to stream on video - really recommend watching Johannes performing the piece! 🎧 link in bio “With every new work by Anna Thorvaldsdottir that I hear, I become more and more convinced that she is one of the most important compositional voices of our time … [e]ach new work is an adventure.” – Hufvudstadsbladet “Before we fall is fundamentally a deeply elegiac work … the congenially crafted solo part, which successfully explores the instrument’s resources across its entire emotional and sonic range, was interpreted with all conceivable finesse, insight, and precision by Johannes Moser – the commissioner of the work, who at times seemed to embody his part rather than merely interpret it. – Hufvudstadsbladet “Thorvaldsdottir is considered one of the most original orchestral composers of our time. Following the soloist’s journey through the dark-hued, rumbling, and growling orchestral lava flow of the cello concerto Before We Fall, anyone in the audience could hear why.” – Helsingin Sanomat

Enjoying a few days in Iceland 🫶🦄

Tonight is the Finnish premiere of the cello concerto with @cellistjohannesmoser and @helsinkiphilharmonic at @musiikkitalo, conducted by @jpsaraste - the performance can be live-streamed (link in bio) 🎶 Wonderful to back in Helsinki for this 🌸

Thanks for 2025 dearest friends - wishing you and yours the very best for a bright and meaningful new year 🎆

Happy Holidays dearest friends 🎄🫶

cozy studio time - working on a new symphony 🎶 I treasure the space and openness that comes with finding new music, the freedom and organic flow of ideas As this new large orchestra piece is essentially a ‘symphony’ I have been asking myself what a new symphony is today - I think that question has many interesting answers and a lot of more questions that orbit as well… What do you think? #newmusic #musicmaking

Lovely to see UBIQUE on Tom Huizenga’s NPR top 10 list of albums this year This was such special project to release together in February with @sonolummusic and the gorgeous performance of @clairechaseflute , Cory Smythe, @tinkatonk and @sethparkerwoods 🩶 UBIQUE is in a large part inspired by the notion of being everywhere at the same time, an enveloping omnipresence, while simultaneously focusing on details within the density of each particle, echoed in various forms throughout the piece. At the core lives the idea of connection, of coming together and being as one. This manifests on various scales throughout the piece as sounds are both reduced to their smallest particles and their atmospheric presence expanded towards the infinite. The performers breathing together as one, carrying the calmness that lives at the centre, with an external madness that the piece never really reveals, but here and there gives a glimpse of, a world that it does not want to be a part of. Sound and mixing: @dbssound Executive Producers: Helen Meyer and John Meyer Session engineer: @rick.jacobsohn with @jensenartists , @densityarts * UBIQUE was commissioned by Carnegie Hall, the Cheswatyr Foundation, Kurt Chauviere, and Density Arts as part of Claire Chase’s Density 2036 project

Interview with Baldur Brönnimann

November 26, 2012

Here is an interview I did with conductor Baldur Brönnimann in connection with the BIT20 concert in Bergen on November 17th where they performed Hrím and pieces by Ligeti, Chin and Nancarrow.

I talked a little bit about my compositional process and how nature inspires me.