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“Ingvarsson’s music, in a postmodern tonal idiom, is immediately coherent and engaging.”

-Opera magazine (UK) (2022)

“The music is full of emotion and mesmerising.”

-Silja Aðalsteinsdóttir / Tímarit Máls og Menningar (ICE) (2022)

“Ingvarsson’s music carries the composer’s strong personal style.”

-Jónas Sen / Fréttablaðið (ICE) (2015)

 

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A Music Patron composer
A Music Patron composer

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

Music Patron is a new, ambitious platform connecting patrons and composers. With a one-off or regular monthly donation, anyone can join the community of patrons changing the status quo of the music industry.

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A new song commission
A new song commission

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.

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Fallegt hér jólunum á frumflutningur / New Christmas song premiere
Fallegt hér jólunum á frumflutningur / New Christmas song premiere

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.

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Featured photographs

Gunnar Gudbjornsson tenor as The Doctor and Thorgunnur Anna mezzo-soprano as The Singer in Ingvarsson’s opera Music and the brain. Performance in London September 2022. Photo by Claire Shovelton.

Ingvarsson conducts his opera “Þögnin” (The Silence) in Tjarnarbíó theatre, Reykjavík, August 2022. Soloists: Bjarni Thor Kristinsson bass, Gissur Páll Gissurarson tenor, Elsa Waage contralto, Björk Níelsdóttir sóprano. Eiríkur Rafn Eiríksson trumpet/flugelhorn, Matthildur Anna Gísladóttir píanó, Guðný Jónasdóttir cello. Photograph by Juliette Rowland.

Ingvarsson conducting the Icelandic Choir of Europe in April 2022, Aarhus, Denmark. Two new arrangements of his were premiered. Photographer unknown.

Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra perform Ingvarsson’s Vefur/Loom at Dark Music Days festival 2019 in Harpa, Reykjavík, Iceland. Conductor Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason. Photographer unknown.

Members of ALDAorchestra along with Ingvarsson perform Ingvarsson’s and Gerður Kristný’s Drápa in Denmark 2019. Photographer unknown. From left: Adam Bushell, Helgi R. Ingvarsson, Helen Whitaker, Gerður Kristný, Sarah Davison.

Ingvarsson’s opera Évariste at the Téte a Téte opera festival, London 2015. Photo by Claire Shovelton.

Ingvarsson conducts ALDAorchestra as they perform his work 4.1 Earths in Brighton 2016.

Ingvarsson conducting a grand Christmas concert choir in Reykjavík, 2018. The group performed, among other works, Ingvarsson’s SSAATTBB arrangements. Photographer unknown.