We have updated the performance calendar on the website for the coming months and have added a number of performances - if you know of a performance that is not on the calendar already do let me know - link in bio In the coming days the cello concerto - Before we fall - is in Milwaukee with @cellistjohannesmoser , Ró is in Zurich and a number of my pieces will be performed on Sunday at the Barbican in London with @bbc_singers and musicians from Guildhall School of Music 🎶 🩶

…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

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Nominations for the Icelandic Music Awards

November 30, 2012

Nominations for the upcoming Icelandic Music Awards were just announced - I am thankful to be nominated in two categories, as Composer of the Year and for Composition of the Year for the solo piano piece Scape.

See here for the full list of nominees - the list is only in Icelandic though.