Atli Ingólfsson  

Atli Ingólfsson is a professor of composition at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. He studied composition in Reykjavík, Milan and Paris. Atli has composed a number of compositions of all kinds that have been played in many places at home and away from home, but a number of his works have also been published on a recording. He has written something about music, culture and music theory and published, among other things, in Révue d'analyse musicale, Skírni, Són, Tempo, Fréttablaðin, Morgunblaðinu as well as here in Þráðir. He has also published the book Veðarskeyti frá Ásgard (Porlagð 2021). 

Berglind María Tómasdóttir

Berglind María has joined the vanguard of Icelandic musicians with experimental joy and curiosity as a guide. She is a professor at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and has been extremely active in the music scene as a performer and composer, in Iceland and abroad. In her work, she strives to explore images and archetypes as well as music as a social phenomenon. Berglind has performed around the world, among others in Australia, Japan and Europe with Björk as part of the flute septet viibra. She has acted on a number of recordings, for example as a soloist together with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Ashkenazy. In 2022, her album, Ethereality, won the Icelandic Music Award in the category of classical and contemporary music. Berglindar's work has been commissioned and performed by the Flute Association of the United States (The National Flute Association), Nordic Music Days, Dark Music Days, Minnesota University of the University of California and completed her doctorate in Reykjavík and the University of Music Festival in Reykjavík.

Einar Torfi Einarsson 

Einar Torfi Einarsson is a composer and professor at the music department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts He studied composition in Reykjavík, Amsterdam, Graz, and obtained a doctorate in composition from the University of Huddersfield. 2013-2014 he held a research position at the Orpheus Institute in Belgium His music has been performed at music festivals around the world and won awards in the Netherlands and Austria His research has been published in Perspectives of New Music and published by Leuven University Press and Routledge (CRC Press). Then his music has been published by KAIROS and the HCR label. 

Rory Murphy 

Rory Murphy is an Irish composer and music theorist. His work has a primary focus on experimental and invented notation, and deals with the phenomenon of performance and interpretation, seeing novel and stimulating ways to engage performers creatively. To describe those works which are three times and multi-sensory in nature has co-administered his M.Mus in Dublin, and published from the University of the Year in the Arts, and published in Dublin, 2022. 

Sigurður Halldórsson 

Sigurður Halldórsson studied at the Reykjavík School of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He has studied a wide range of musical styles from the Middle Ages to the present day and works with the Caput group, Voces Thules, Camerarctica, Skálholtsquartet and Symphonia Angelica and has performed widely as a soloist. Sigurður was the artistic director of the Summer Concert in Skálholt Church from 2004 to 2014. He works as a professor at the Iceland Academy of the Arts where he directs the international NAIP master's program (New Audiences and Innovative Practice).