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

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

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

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

An Ocean Of Sound: Anna Thorvaldsdottir

June 25, 2019

See here for a feature in Reykjavik Grapevine about Anna’s music