World premiere of the movements 3-4-5

Festival vibrations - Ensemble de musique contemporaine de l'UdeM (EMC). 

Inmost (2023) for orchestra
written for Eva Ollikainen
• World Premiere

Neige éternelle: Movement II
Solo violoncello: Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir

Ofdune, for solo violin
Arlan Vriens’ final doctoral recital.

Canadian premiere

Steinunn Arnbjörg og stofutónlistin
String Quartet, Sinfóníuhljómsveit Norðurlands
Information about the concert: here

Neige éternelle: movement I-II
Solo viola: Rita Porfiris

Primrose Memorial Concert

Flowen, string quartet
Canadian Premiere

Neige éternelle: Movement II
Solo violoncello: Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir
USA Premiere

HOLOS (2022)
for chamber orchestra
• World Premiere •

Myrkir Músíkdagar / Dark Music Days Festival 2023
About the work: HOLOS - Universal Edition

Flowen (2020), for String Quartet

Siggi String Quartet: Una Sveinbjarnardóttir (violin), Helga Þóra Björgvinsdóttir (violin), Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir (viola), Sigurður Bjarki Gunnarsson (violoncello)

Myrkir Músíkdagar / Dark Music Days Festival 2023

Neige éternelle: Movement II
Solo violoncello: Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir
World Premiere

Tertulia Chamber Music
Evening Dinner Party and Performance at La Primavera

Tertulia’s Weekend of Music and Food concludes in style, with a full-scale dinner concert at Reykjavík’s beloved La Primavera.

BLAEN, for quintet
Performers: Ensemble Feima

Auður Edda Erlendsdóttir, Clarinet
Björg Brjánsdóttir, Flute
Pétur Björnsson, Violin
Richard Schwennicke, Piano
Þórdís Gerður Jónsdóttir, Violoncello

Kíðvænleg er þessi tíð, for soprano, string quartet and playback
Wolrd Premiere

Poems by: Látra-Björg and Steinunn Arnbjörg Stefánsdóttir

World Premiere
Solo violoncello: Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir

​Neige éternelle: 1. is the first piece of a series of five for solo cello.
This​ work emerged after Gemæltan, a cello concerto written for Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir.
Each piece is an imagined phase in the formation of a glacier.

Additional information here.

Cello Concerto, written for Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir
Wold Premiere
”We are living the most rapid change of Earth’s forces that a single generation has experienced. Glaciers, that before moved at geological speed of centuries and millennia, are now vanishing in a lifetime of a single human being. Nature has left geological speed and moves at human speed. […]” -Andri Snær Magnason

additional information here

Ofdune, for solo violin
Violin: Una Sveinbjarnardóttir
Chamber Music Festival on Valentia

Additional information: here

World Premiere
Myrkir Músíkdagar / Dark Music Days Festival

Harpa

World Premiere
Winnipeg New Music Festival 2022

Michael Taylor and Opus XX Orchestra
Conductor: Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue
With the support of Musikfonds

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir

Ensemble Dasein & Sigurður Árni Jónsson

Elektra Ensemble
Tónlistarhátíð Rásar 1 - Radio 1 Music Festival

Sarah Parkin & Ben Smith
Poem by Steinunn Arnbjörg Stefánsdóttir

Siggi String Quartet
Kammermúsíkklúbburinn - The Chamber Music Society

Nordic Affect

Nordic Affect

Una Sveinbjarnardóttir & Caput Ensemble
Conductor: Guðni Franzson