Award winners

Award winners of Halldór Hansen's Endowment Fund

According to the charter of the Halldór Hansen Scholarship Fund, one of its main goals is to provide an annual grant in the name of Halldór Hansen, one or two promising music students of the Iceland Academy of the Arts, who have achieved outstanding results in the opinion of the board of trustees In order to limit the selection of the scholarship fund, it was decided that only those music students who had just completed their first university level and were about to start their graduate studies abroad would be considered.

The first grants were awarded for 2004 and have been awarded annually since then if left out in 2011, but no awards were given that year.

  • 2022- Award Winners

    2025 Laureate
    Bryndís Ásta Magnúsdóttir, singer

    2024 Laureate 
    Steinunn María Þormar, singer

    2023 Laureate
    Ólafur Freyr Birkisson, singer

    2022 Laureate
    Pétur Ernir Svavarsson, pianist and singer

  • Awardees 2016-2021

    2021 awardees
    Áslákur Ingvarsson, singer
    Íris Björk Gunnarsdóttir, singer
    Ragnheiður Ingunn Jóhannsdóttir, singer and violinist

    2020 award winners
    Guðný Charlotta Hardardóttir, pianist and teacher
    Matthías Hardarson, church musician
    Vera Hjördís Matsdóttir, singer

    2019 Laureate
    María Sól Ingólfsdóttir, singer

    2018 award winners
    Erna Vala Arnardóttir, pianist
    Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir, singer
    Pétur Úlfarsson singer and violinist

    2017 award winners
    Óskar Magnússon, guitarist
    Snæbjörg Guðmunda Gunnarsdóttir, singer

    2016 award winners
    Heiðdís Hanna Sigurðardóttir, singer
    Steinar Logi Helgason, church musician

  • Award winners 2010-2015

    2015 award winners
    Steiney Sigurðardóttir, cellist
    Davíð Ólafsson, singer

    2014 award winners
    Baldvin Ingvar Tryggvason, clarinetist
    Jónína Björt Gunnarsdóttir, singer

    2013 award winners
    Elín Arnardóttir, pianist
    Sigrún Björk Sævarsdóttir, singer
    Þorkell Helgi Sigfússon, singer

    2012 award winners
    Jane Ade Sutarjo, pianist
    Elísabet Einarsdóttir, singer

    2010 award winners
    Andri Björn Róbertsson, bass baritone
    Helga Kristbjörg Guðmundsdóttir, accordion

  • Awardees 2004-2009

    2009 Laureate
    Hulda Jónsdóttir, violin

    2008 awardees
    Greta Salóme Stefánsdóttir, violinist
    Hákon Bjarnason, pianist
    Joaquín Páll Palomares, violinist
    Þorvaldur Kristinn Þorvaldsson, singer

    2007 Laureate
    Grímur Helgason, clarinetist

    2006 Laureate
    Herdís Anna Jónasdóttir, singer

    2005 awardees
    Dóra Steinunn Ármannsdóttir, singer
    Steinunn Soffía Skjenstad, singer

    2004 award winners
    Melkorka Ólafsdóttir, flutist
    Ingrid Karlsdóttir, violinist