{"id":1348,"date":"2025-02-20T17:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:49:37","slug":"thorkell-sigurbjornsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/thorkell-sigurbjornsson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00deorkell Sigurbj\u00f6rnsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1257\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thorkell-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thorkell-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thorkell-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thorkell-768x1085.jpg 768w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thorkell-1087x1536.jpg 1087w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thorkell-1449x2048.jpg 1449w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thorkell-scaled.jpg 1811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00deorkell Sigurbj\u00f6rnsson (1938\u20132013) studied piano at the Reykjav\u00edk School of Music, then continued his education in the United States. He attended Hamline University (Minnesota) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completing a master\u2019s degree in composition in 1961 under the tutelage of Kenneth Gaburo and Lejaren Hiller. He also attended summer courses in composition at Darmstadt, Nice and Tanglewood. Sigurbj\u00f6rnsson was a remarkably prolific composer and a key participant in Iceland\u2019s musical scene as pianist, teacher, critic, and radio commentator. His work list includes orchestral works, concertos, choral works, chamber music, and operas for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00deorkell Sigurbj\u00f6rnsson (1938\u20132013) studied piano at the Reykjav\u00edk School of Music, then continued his education in the United States. He attended Hamline University (Minnesota) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completing a master\u2019s degree in composition in 1961 under the tutelage of Kenneth Gaburo and Lejaren Hiller. He also attended summer courses in composition at Darmstadt, Nice and Tanglewood. Sigurbj\u00f6rnsson was a remarkably prolific composer and a key participant in Iceland\u2019s musical scene as pianist, teacher, critic, and radio commentator. His work list includes orchestral works, concertos, choral works, chamber music, and operas for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/mim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}