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\u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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\u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson, the project\u2019s Principal Investigator, is an Icelandic musicologist and holds a PhD in historical musicology from Harvard University. His primary area of interest is the history of Icelandic music from the Middle Ages to the present, and he is the author of several books on Icelandic music, including J\u00f3n Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland (Indiana University Press, 2019), which was listed as one of that year’s best books on music by Alex Ross of The New Yorker. His most recent book is Music at World’s End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contribution to Music in Iceland (SUNY Press, 2025). Its Icelandic version was nominated for the Icelandic Book Award in 2024.<\/p>

Ing\u00f3lfsson is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed articles, as well as 18 entries in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He has contributed to volumes such as Mirrors of Virtue (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2017), The Nature of Nordic Music (Routledge, 2019), and Sounds Icelandic (Equinox, 2019), which he co-edited. He is also the co-editor of The Songbook of Rev. \u00d3lafur J\u00f3nsson, an edition of 51 songs and poems by an Icelandic priest in the early seventeenth century (\u00c1rni Magn\u00fasson Institute, 2024).<\/p>

Praised as \u201ca terrific lecturer\u201d by American Record Guide, Ing\u00f3lfsson has given lectures and pre-concert talks throughout the world, including at conferences in Europe, Asia, and the United States. He was a special guest speaker at the LA Philharmonic\u2019s Reykjav\u00edk Festival in 2017, an Erasmus guest lecturer at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, and has held visiting fellowships at Oxford University, Harvard, and Yale.<\/p>

\u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson is a three-time nominee for the Icelandic Book Award (academic\/non-fiction). He is also a two-time winner of the Icelandic Music Award, for his CD recordings (with the Carmina Chamber Choir, which he founded) of music from Icelandic manuscripts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In January 2025, his recordings and research were featured in an hour-long episode of The Early Music Show on BBC Radio 3. As a pianist and harpsichordist, he has recorded several CDs and appeared in concert in Iceland, England, Germany, Italy, Canada, and the United States.<\/p>

See also: www.arniheimir.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>

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Helgi Rafn Ingvarsson<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Dr. Helgi Rafn Ingvarsson is an Icelandic composer with a doctorate in composition from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was a Composition Fellow. In 2009\u20132024 he has written six essays and scholarly articles on music, which have been published in journals such as \u00der\u00e6\u00f0ir, the journal of the Music Department of the Iceland University of the Arts. He has held many lectures and workshops about his compositions and research, for example in England, Ireland, Sweden, and Iceland. Helgi has composed works for the Caput Ensemble, the Reykjav\u00edk Chamber Orchestra, Chroma Ensemble (UK), the Kord\u00eda Choir, J\u00f6kla Ensemble, The Composer\u2018s Ensemble (UK), Concorde Ensemle, Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble, and many smaller ensembles, instrumentalists, and singers.<\/p>

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Tinna \u00deorsteinsd\u00f3ttir<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Tinna \u00deorsteinsd\u00f3ttir, pianist, has been active in the field of contemporary music and has premiered multiple piano works written for her over the years, including six solo concertos. She has given numerous solo recitals and masterclasses in Europe, the United States and Asia with an emphasis on contemporary music. Tinna completed her Diploma degree at the Hochscule f\u00fcr Musik in M\u00fcnster, Germany, with her final thesis on Icelandic piano concertos, and later a Graduate Diploma at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in piano performance. She received the DV Cultural Award for music in 2013 and was the Municipal Artist of Gar\u00f0ab\u00e6r in 2025.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Tui Hirv, born in Tallinn in 1984, is an Estonian singer and musicologist. She holds a BA in singing and MA in musicology from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. In Estonia, Hirv was much in demand in the scene of choir and contemporary music. She sang with Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Vox Clamantis, both groups that shaped the sound attributed to Arvo P\u00e4rt’s music. In 2013 Hirv relocated to Iceland. While mostly involved in education, she has since collaborated with contemporary music ensembles, taught music history at Iceland University of the Arts, sat in the jury of Iceland Music Awards and archived the works of Atli Heimir Sveinsson, the local pioneer of modernism in music.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Team \u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson \u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson, the project\u2019s Principal Investigator, is an Icelandic musicologist and holds a PhD in historical musicology from Harvard University. His primary area of interest is the history of Icelandic music from the Middle Ages to the present, and he is the author of several books on Icelandic music, including J\u00f3n Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland (Indiana University Press, 2019), which was listed as one of that year’s best books on music by Alex Ross of The New Yorker. His most recent book is Music at World’s End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contribution to Music in Iceland (SUNY Press, 2025). Its Icelandic version was nominated for the Icelandic Book Award in 2024. Ing\u00f3lfsson is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed articles, as well as 18 entries in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He has contributed to volumes such as Mirrors of Virtue (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2017), The Nature of Nordic Music (Routledge, 2019), and Sounds Icelandic (Equinox, 2019), which he co-edited. He is also the co-editor of The Songbook of Rev. \u00d3lafur J\u00f3nsson, an edition of 51 songs and poems by an Icelandic priest in the early seventeenth century (\u00c1rni Magn\u00fasson Institute, 2024). Praised as \u201ca terrific lecturer\u201d by American Record Guide, Ing\u00f3lfsson has given lectures and pre-concert talks throughout the world, including at conferences in Europe, Asia, and the United States. He was a special guest speaker at the LA Philharmonic\u2019s Reykjav\u00edk Festival in 2017, an Erasmus guest lecturer at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, and has held visiting fellowships at Oxford University, Harvard, and Yale. \u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson is a three-time nominee for the Icelandic Book Award (academic\/non-fiction). He is also a two-time winner of the Icelandic Music Award, for his CD recordings (with the Carmina Chamber Choir, which he founded) of music from Icelandic manuscripts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In January 2025, his recordings and research were featured in an hour-long episode of The Early Music Show on BBC Radio 3. As a pianist and harpsichordist, he has recorded several CDs and appeared in concert in Iceland, England, Germany, Italy, Canada, and the United States. See also: www.arniheimir.com\u00a0 \u00a0 Research Assistants Helgi Rafn Ingvarsson Dr. Helgi Rafn Ingvarsson is an Icelandic composer with a doctorate in composition from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was a Composition Fellow. In 2009\u20132024 he has written six essays and scholarly articles on music, which have been published in journals such as \u00der\u00e6\u00f0ir, the journal of the Music Department of the Iceland University of the Arts. He has held many lectures and workshops about his compositions and research, for example in England, Ireland, Sweden, and Iceland. Helgi has composed works for the Caput Ensemble, the Reykjav\u00edk Chamber Orchestra, Chroma Ensemble (UK), the Kord\u00eda Choir, J\u00f6kla Ensemble, The Composer\u2018s Ensemble (UK), Concorde Ensemle, Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble, and many smaller ensembles, instrumentalists, and singers. \u00a0 Tinna \u00deorsteinsd\u00f3ttir Tinna \u00deorsteinsd\u00f3ttir, pianist, has been active in the field of contemporary music and has premiered multiple piano works written for her over the years, including six solo concertos. She has given numerous solo recitals and masterclasses in Europe, the United States and Asia with an emphasis on contemporary music. 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