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

Interview in Iceland Review

August 17, 2012

The August/September issue of Iceland Review features a short interview with Anna on her inspirations in music.

At the moment the magazine is only available in hard copy.