About authors

Angela Snæfellsjökull Rawlings 

Dr. Angela Snæfellsjökull Rawlings is a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher who works with languages as dominant exploratory material. Rawlings’ books include Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), Gibber (online, 2012), o w n (CUE BOOKS, 2015), si tu (MaMa Multimedijalni Institut, 2017), and Sound of Mull (Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2019). In 2022, Rawlings co-curated SPHERE Festival for the Canadian National Arts Center's Orchestra in partnership with the Canadian Museum of Nature, Royal Danish Library, and Nordic Bridges. In 2024, Rawlings founded Snæfellsjökull for the president, a collective bringing the rights of nature to Iceland through the promotion the glacier Snæfellsjökull as the country's future president. 

Ari Frank Inguson 

Ari Frank Inguson studied music at the FÍH School of Music and the School of Music in Music and now completes his rhythmic teacher training from the Iceland Academy of the Arts In addition, he holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Iceland Ari sees music creation as an interdisciplinary practice where technical skills combine with philosophical and cultural ideas Music works with musical entities, concepts, cultural trends and the human condition For him, music creation is a way to explore and understand reality Ari has released several albums under the name Ari Árelius and worked with a diverse group of artists as a guitarist and producer, including Pale Moon and ATM trio. 

Atli Ingólfsson 

Atli Ingólfsson is a professor of composition at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. 

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 his 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. His music has also been published by the KAIROS label. 

Elín Gunnlaugsdóttir 

Elín Gunnlaugsdóttir is a composer and adjunct professor at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. She studied composition at the Reykjavík School of Music and graduated from there in 1993. In 1998, she completed her postgraduate studies in composition from the Royal Academy of Music in The Hague. She has worked in composition and teaching since she completed her studies. Elínar's repertoire consists of chamber works, vocal works and she has also written musical adventures for children. Elín has worked with her art in various forms, sent works on postcards, published book works and participated in art exhibitions. Elínar's works have been performed both at home and abroad. 

Linda Björg Guðmundsdóttir 

Linda Björg Guðmundsdóttir has worked as a service and technical representative in the music department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts since the fall semester of 2018. she graduated from creative music communication in 2014 at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and completed sound technology at Studio Syria in 2015. Linda worked as a technical and sound engineer at Harpa in 2016 and 2017. 

Rachel Beetz 

Composer, flutist, and improviser, Rachel Beetz explorores presence through sound and listening. Her works re-creating physical atmospheres based on her deep listening adventures in the wild, exploring hidden worlds of nature and machines. Combining experimental field recordings and galleries in Australia, Iceland, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. you can hear her on Orenda, Blue Griffin, iikki, and Neuma record of Poplists a Records. 

Rebecca Blöndal 

Rebekka Blöndal is a musician and ethnologist. She studied music at the Singing School in Reykjavík and took her Basic degree there, but also studied jazz singing at the FÍH and MÍT Music School and graduated from there in the spring of 2019. Rebekka is currently studying at the Iceland Academy of the Arts on a rhythmic teacher's course and graduated from there in the spring of 2025. Rebekka also has a BA degree from the University of Iceland in Ethnology, with an emphasis on Gender Studies and also has an MA degree in journalism and journalism. Rebekka received the Icelandic Music Award for Song of the Year in the jazz music category in 2022, but she also released her solo album that same year. Rebekka has worked with a diverse group of musicians and conducted various concert projects. 

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). 

Tumi Árnason 

Tumi Árnason is a composer and saxophonist who is currently completing composition studies at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. He has also released under his own name the album Hlýnun, with his quartet made up of Magnús Jóhann, Skúla Sverrisson and Magnús Trygvason Eliassen, but it was chosen as composition of the year at the Icelandic Music Awards 2022. He has also released two albums of duets with Magnús Trygvason Eliassen, most recently Gleypir tígur gleypir ljón in 2023. In addition, he has played on a multitude of records as a performer with musicians from various sources. Tumi has contributed to film and theater music both as a performer and composer, and last wrote music for the play Ást Fedra by Söruh Kane, which was shown at the National Theater in the fall of 2023. 

Thorbjörg Daphne Hall 

Þorbjörg Daphne Hall is a professor at the music department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts. She completed a doctoral degree from the University of Liverpool in 2019, where she discussed the tension between the different stories about „the Icelandic“ in popular music in modern Iceland. Þorbjörg leads Building Bridges Through Collaboration (Buggjum bridges with cooperation), which is a three-year research project, funded by the Research Fund, which examines the activities and methodology of MetamorPhonics, which is an example of a community-based music project. At the same time, Þorbjörg is working on a book about the Icelandic music scene that will be published by Bloomsbury and a research project on Icelandic jazz music (1930-2010) in collaboration with Ásbjörga Jónsdóttir. She edited the book Sounds Icelandic which was published by Equinox Publishing in 2017 together with Nicola Dibben, Árna Heimi Ingólfsson and Tony Michell. Þorbjörg has published articles and lectured at international conferences on Icelandic music, music and national identity, the film Home by Sigur Rós and about music in Kristjania in Copenhagen. She has been one of the editors Thread, the magazine of the LHÍ music department from 2016. 

Þórberg Bollason 

Þórbergur Bollason is a composer who graduated with a bachelor's degree in composition from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in the spring of 2023. He is on his way to a master's degree in composition at the Grieg Academy in Bergen in the fall of 2024 and is also in Iceland's delegation to Ung Nordisk Musik in Örebro in the summer of 2024. In addition to composition, Þórbergur has a background in piano playing with Peter Maté and Edda Erlendsdóttir, and rhythmic piano playing at the Gunnlaugsdóttir High School has also studied basics with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and Magnús Ragnarsson in addition to conducting the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra.