In April 2025, Árni Heimir Ingólfsson, the project’s Principal Investigator, will give a series of lectures in Tokyo, Japan, including a lecture at Waseda University on the influence on Japanese music on Icelandic modernist scores in the 1970s. These include Atli Heimir Sveinsson’s Flute Concerto, Xanties for flute and piano, and Japanese Poems for mixed choir and guitar, as well as Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson’s Kalais for solo flute. The lecture is sponsored by the Japanese Society for Musicology. Ingólfsson’s stay in Japan will also include meetings with local musicians and musicologists, in an attempt to examine more closely the influence of Japanese music and “orientalism” in general in Icelandic modernist music, particularly during the 1970s.
