{"id":13087,"date":"2024-05-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/?post_type=threads&p=13087"},"modified":"2024-05-24T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T11:20:21","slug":"about-hofunda","status":"publish","type":"threads","link":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/thraedir\/thraedir-tolublad-9\/um-hofunda\/","title":{"rendered":"About authors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Angela Sn\u00e6fellsj\u00f6kull Rawlings<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Angela Sn\u00e6fellsj\u00f6kull Rawlings is a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher who works with languages as dominant exploratory material. Rawlings\u2019 books include <\/span>Wide slumber for lepidopterists<\/span><\/i> (Coach House Books, 2006), <\/span>Gibber<\/span><\/i> (online, 2012), <\/span>o w n<\/span><\/i> (CUE BOOKS, 2015), <\/span>si tu<\/span><\/i> (MaMa Multimedijalni Institut, 2017), and <\/span>Sound of Mull<\/span><\/i> (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 Sn\u00e6fellsj\u00f6kull for the president, a collective bringing the rights of nature to Iceland through the promotion the glacier Sn\u00e6fellsj\u00f6kull as the country's future president.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ari Frank Inguson<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ari Frank Inguson studied music at the F\u00cdH 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 \u00c1relius and worked with a diverse group of artists as a guitarist and producer, including Pale Moon and ATM trio.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Atli Ing\u00f3lfsson<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Atli Ing\u00f3lfsson is a professor of composition at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Berglind Mar\u00eda T\u00f3masd\u00f3ttir<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Berglind Mar\u00eda 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 Bj\u00f6rk 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 Reykjav\u00edk and the University of Music Festival in Reykjav\u00edk.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Einar Torfi Einarsson<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Einar Torfi Einarsson is a composer and professor at the music department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts He studied composition in Reykjav\u00edk, 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.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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El\u00edn Gunnlaugsd\u00f3ttir<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

El\u00edn Gunnlaugsd\u00f3ttir is a composer and adjunct professor at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. She studied composition at the Reykjav\u00edk 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. El\u00ednar's repertoire consists of chamber works, vocal works and she has also written musical adventures for children. El\u00edn has worked with her art in various forms, sent works on postcards, published book works and participated in art exhibitions. El\u00ednar's works have been performed both at home and abroad.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Linda Bj\u00f6rg Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Linda Bj\u00f6rg Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir 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.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rachel Beetz<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rebecca Bl\u00f6ndal<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebekka Bl\u00f6ndal is a musician and ethnologist. She studied music at the Singing School in Reykjav\u00edk and took her Basic degree there, but also studied jazz singing at the F\u00cdH and M\u00cdT 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.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sigur\u00f0ur Halld\u00f3rsson<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sigur\u00f0ur Halld\u00f3rsson studied at the Reykjav\u00edk 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, Sk\u00e1lholtsquartet and Symphonia Angelica and has performed widely as a soloist. Sigur\u00f0ur was the artistic director of the Summer Concert in Sk\u00e1lholt 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).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tumi \u00c1rnason<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tumi \u00c1rnason 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 Hl\u00fdnun, with his quartet made up of Magn\u00fas J\u00f3hann, Sk\u00fala Sverrisson and Magn\u00fas 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 Magn\u00fas Trygvason Eliassen, most recently Gleypir t\u00edgur gleypir lj\u00f3n 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 \u00c1st Fedra by S\u00f6ruh Kane, which was shown at the National Theater in the fall of 2023.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thorbj\u00f6rg Daphne Hall<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00deorbj\u00f6rg 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 \u201ethe Icelandic\u201c in popular music in modern Iceland. \u00deorbj\u00f6rg 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, \u00deorbj\u00f6rg 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 \u00c1sbj\u00f6rga J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir. She edited the book <\/span>Sounds Icelandic<\/span><\/i> which was published by Equinox Publishing in 2017 together with Nicola Dibben, \u00c1rna Heimi Ing\u00f3lfsson and Tony Michell. \u00deorbj\u00f6rg has published articles and lectured at international conferences on Icelandic music, music and national identity, the film <\/span>Home<\/span><\/i> by Sigur R\u00f3s and about music in Kristjania in Copenhagen. She has been one of the editors <\/span>Thread<\/span><\/i>, the magazine of the LH\u00cd music department from 2016.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00de\u00f3rberg Bollason<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00de\u00f3rbergur 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 \u00d6rebro in the summer of 2024. In addition to composition, \u00de\u00f3rbergur has a background in piano playing with Peter Mat\u00e9 and Edda Erlendsd\u00f3ttir, and rhythmic piano playing at the Gunnlaugsd\u00f3ttir High School has also studied basics with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and Magn\u00fas Ragnarsson in addition to conducting the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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