Exciting things coming up in Iceland: e.g. a new choral piece commission from the amazing Schola Cantorum.

I am very grateful that the Iceland Music Fund decided to fund the premiere of my seventh opera, Ragnarok: Fate of the Gods. The premiere will take place in the year 2025 in Reykjavik Iceland.

Finally, my flute book is ready and has arrived from the printers! It contains four pieces of music by me for flute / alto flute and piano that I am very proud of, all beautifully bound.

I’m thrilled to announce that I am a Music Patron UK Composer.

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Soprano Rannveig Karadottir (Rannveig Káradóttir) has commissioned me to write her a new art song for her semi-staged concert concept ‘Motherland’. Rannveig premiered ‘Motherland’ - a 1h concert of traditional and new Icelandic art songs - in Coburg, Germany in 2023 and will now tour it to Iceland in late 2024.

My Christmas art song ‘Fallegt hér jólunum á’ (Beautiful at Christmas) was composed in 2022. Now it receives its premiere on Saturday 16th December 2023 in Laugarneskirkja church, Reykjavik, Iceland.

I have finished composing the 1st act of my oratorio Ragnarok: fate of the gods. The act contains 16 musical numbers and duration is somewhere over 1 hour. Premiere is planned early 2025 in Iceland.

Finally, I have taken the time to update my official streaming profiles, under the name “Helgi R. Ingvarsson”.

The flute and alto flute are beautiful instruments that I really enjoy writing for and they are played here by the amazing Helen Whitaker. Pianist was Katherine Tinker of the London Contemporary Orchestra.

The opera that I created and produced with librettist-director Árni Kristjánsson, Þögnin / The Silence opera, was nominated for two awards at Griman, Iceland national stage awards.

I am grateful that Kordia Chamber Choir included two works of mine on their new album. Both works are available on Youtube.

I am so excited to conduct my lovely choir, Icelandic Choir of London, for our Spring Concert with Dóttir choir from Copenhagen.

8. tölublað Þráða - Tímarit um tónlist er komið út á vegum Listaháskóla Íslands. Þar er meðal annars að finna greinina Tónlist og samfélag: Hagfræði og verðmætamat sem ég skrifaði nýverið.

I am happy to announce some of the upcoming performances of my original music happening in April-May 2023.

Personal Clutter performed my playful performance piece “Random notes I found in the street” at Dark Music Days new music festival in Reykjavik 25th January 2023.

My new work for organ, All saints, will be premiered in a week in Hove, UK. Very happy to get to write specifically for the beautiful organ in All saints church.

Thanks to funding from RUV composer fund (Tónskáldasjóður RÚV) I will be writing a new music drama in 2023. The topic is Ragnarök, the end of the world according to Norse Mythology.

Icelandic Choir of London (where I have been main conductor since 2012) sang in front of a full house in Cecil Sharp House last Sunday. We introduced to the audience (among other things) the traditional Icelandic "tvisongslag."

Opera, the world's leading opera magazine, wrote a review of my and Rebecca Hurst's opera Music and the Brain! I didn't know they had sent someone to our show, so this is a nice surprise!

We performed Music and the brain opera at The Tung Auditorium in Liverpool 19th October 2022, which marked the opera’s 16th show in total.

I am currently occupied with the idea of composing very long melodies that still hold their shape and can still be conceived as a single unit of melody, even though they take a long time to complete in performance.

I started transcribing the 11 handwritten orchestral parts of the 1944 „Spellbound“ (Í álögum) operetta into digital form so that the orchestral arrangement of composer Sigurður Þórðarson can be analysed and performed.

After a great tour to Sweden and Iceland we turned our heads towards London where we performed my Music and the brain opera on the 9th September at the Cockpit Theatre NW8.

We are ecstatic with how well Þögnin (The Silence) was received during its premiere in Tjarnarbíó, Reykjavík 19th-20th August.

I spent five wonderful days in beautiful Trollhättan, Sweden as Nordic Song Festival’s composer in residence 5th-9th August 2022.

My latest opera - Þögnin / The Silence - will be premiered in Reykjavík, 19th and 20th of August 2022. Rehearsals start 1st of August, in just under two weeks, and I am very excited! The cast is not only world class, but world renowned.

My work for SATB vocal group „Three poems for the climate“ (Þrjú ljóð fyrir loftslagið) is being performed this Sunday by Vinakvartettinn vocal quartet (for the third time since 2021).

Me and librettist Rebecca Hurst are nominated as authors for Gríman (Iceland annual stage arts awards) for our opera Music and the Brain which was performed in Reykjavík last year.

7. tölublað Þráða er komið út. Margt merkilegt þar, meðal annars grein mín um Í álögum, fyrstu íslensku óperettuna, en ég hef verið að rannsaka verkið undanfarin tvö ár eða svo.