Happy to ~ finally ~ share that the chamber opera UR_ will be presented at the Royal Opera House next season in a new production by the brilliant Netia Jones ✨ - her work is incredible, if you don’t know it I recommend checking it out! Also, these current weeks at the ROH, METACOSMOS and CATAMORPHOSIS are featured in Wayne McGregor’s wonderful choreography “Untitled” with a few shows remaining * The cast and crew for the new UR_ production will be announced later so I will excitedly share that info when the time comes 🦋 with @royalballetandopera * @studiowaynemcgregor *

moments from a great rehearsal of CATAMORPHOSIS yesterday with @londonphilharmonicorchestra and @kirillkarabits - concert tonight at Royal Festival Hall 🎶 #newmusic #icelandicmusic

From a really great photoshoot with @edwinsfreyer for @5elevenmag for a feature in the Music Issue which is out now ✨ wearing some of my favorite @rickowensonline pieces 🖤 link in bio with @boramleekim , @soundandmusicuk , @studio_will_dutta , @goodwoodartfoundation , @jensenartists & @felt_seen

Lovely words about AION in Helsingin Sanomat, after the performance in Helsinki with the @helsinkiphilharmonic and Eva Ollinainen 🌸 “AION is not a traditional tone poem depicting nature - it is an abstract modern work that proceeds according to the music’s own internal logic. At the same time, it is a concrete, sensory ecosystem. … The work conjured an atmospheric sound-world that enveloped the listener, drawing them into its depths. … AION’s tectonic shifts were in constant motion, often layered and pulling in opposing directions. The work has a taut, distinctive architecture, which Ollikainen commanded with complete authority. … Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring pairs perfectly with AION. The element of earth also rules The Rite, and both works transport the listener to a mythical realm.” - Hannu-Ilari Lampinen, Helsingin Sanomat

What a magnificent tour of the @icelandsymphony in Switzerland and Germany! Such a pleasure to join them along with Eva Ollikainen and @kian.soltani_cellist 🫶🏼 We have arrived in Hamburg and are all very excited for tonight’s concert! Wonderful to be back in this fabulous hall @elbphilharmonie with ARCHORA #icelandicmusic #newmusic

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

Composing Myself: Anna Thorvaldsdottir

March 02, 2020

A short profile film about the creative process ❀

The tenth in a series of composer videos from Wise Music Group. Explore the world of Anna Thorvaldsdottir, a composer whose music has been said to "conjure u...