Very grateful for receiving the Iceland Music Awards last night for the cello concerto, Before we fall — I wasn’t able to be there in person so @gydnid from the Iceland Symphony received it on my behalf, takk Guðni! 🫶 Warmest thanks to @cellistjohannesmoser for his virtuosity, his deep insight and powerful determination in carrying the piece - and bottomless thanks to the commissioning orchestras, the @sfsymphony , @helsinkiphilharmonic , @odensesymfoniorkester , @icelandsymphony and BBC Proms / @bbcsymphonyorchestra - and to Justus for the support ❤️ #iston #newmusic

I will be on tour with the wonderful @icelandsymphony in Switzerland and Germany, starting in Geneva this Friday and ending in Hamburg on March 26 - ARCHORA will be on the program and I will be giving pre- or post-concert talks at each venue 20/3 in Geneva 21/3 in Bern 22/3 in Zürich 24/3 in Heidelberg 26/3 in Hamburg Come say hi if you will be there! Also on the program, Sibelius 2 and the remarkable @kian.soltani_cellist playing the Elgar concerto and the Lutosławski concerto in Hamburg which will also feature Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite - with conductor Eva Ollikainen 🫶 #icelandicmusic #ontour

a short stop in Iceland - always love being back here at the roots 🙆🏻‍♀️

Happy to share that Before we fall, cello concerto, and UBIQUE have been nominated to the Iceland Music Awards - the concerto as work of the year and UBIQUE as album of the year - in the classical and contemporary category Hugest thanks to the wonderful performers for diving so deeply into the music and for embracing it so beautifully 🥰 and to @dbssound , @rick.jacobsohn and @sonolummusic for their magic in the recording and release of UBIQUE congrats @cellistjohannesmoser * @clairechaseflute * Cory Smythe * @tinkatonk * @sethparkerwoods ❤️ #ístón2026

AION symphony is with @helsinkiphilharmonic conducted by Eva Ollikainen tonight along with the Rite of Spring - a program that Eva and I curated in connection with my residency with the orchestra this season. I had been very much looking forward to being back there for this concert but was unexpectedly not able to go so will be there in sprit 💜 It has been such a joy to get to know the orchestra so well through the residency and I am deeply looking forward to further collaborations to come - more soon! If you are in Helsinki, some extra standing spaces have been added to tonight’s sold out concert

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

METACOSMOS

February 14, 2019

The Iceland Symphony has posted a full recording of METACOSMOS, for orchestra, from the performance on January 31st 2019, conducted by Daníel Bjarnason.

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The Berlin Philharmonic gave the European premiere of the work the week before, conducted by Alan Gilbert, and below is an excerpt from that performance. The full performance is available in the Digital Concert Hall of the Berliner Philharmoniker here.