Performers
- Rumon Gambaconductor
- Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttircello
Concert Information
Join the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale Studios for UK premieres of recent works by four Icelandic composers. Cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir is the soloist in a work written for her, Páll Ragnar Pálsson's Quake, which was the overall winner at the 2018 International Rostrum of Composers. Valgeir Sigurðsson is a record producer, sound engineer, musician and composer. In 1997 he founded Greenhouse Studios in Iceland, where he worked with a wide range of international artists from Bjork, Damon Albarn and Nico Muhly.
Anna Þorvaldsdóttir’s Dreaming, inspired by imaginative listening to landscapes and nature, embodies a flowing world of sound. Haukur Tomasson’s From Darkness Woven is composed for orchestra without brass instruments and has its roots in the world of weaving and looms. Various sections of the piece had working titles like Installment, Battening, Fabric, Shuttle and Pattern.
This concert will be recorded for future broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3.
Haukur Tómasson From Darkness Woven (UK premiere)
Páll Ragnar Pálsson Quake* (UK premiere)
Valgeir Sigurðsson Eighteen Hundred & Seventy-Five (UK premiere)
Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir Dreaming (UK premiere)