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Due voci
2026

8 min

Flute and saxophone
Premier: Pamela De Sensi & Guido Bäumer

WindWorks music festival, Akureyri
9. August 2026
Nocturnes
2025

14 min
Flute
Premier: Björg Brjánsdóttir

Skálholt Summer Concerts
2. July 2025


Kvöld sorgarinnar /
Evening
of sadness
2025

30 min
Female voice, accordion and percussion

Poems by Refaat Alareer, Konstantinos Kavafis,Írína Ratúsjínskaja & Natasha S.

Premier: KIMI ensemble - Þórgunnur Anna Örnólfsdóttir soprano, Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson accordion, Katerina Anagnostidou percussion.

Tíbrá - concert series in Salurinn, Kópavogur 
18. May 2025



Þá er að rífa sig upp úr dottinu / Then one must wrench oneself awake
2024

18 min
Female voice and piano

Poems by Gyrðir Elíasson, Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir & Ísak Harðarson

Premier: Hildigunnur Einarsdóttir mezzo-soprano & Guðrún Dalía Salómonsdóttir piano.

Dark Music Days Reykjavík
25. January 2025

Litbrigði / Iridescence
2024

5 min.
Piccolo
Premier: Petrea Óskarsdóttir

Windworks music festival, Akureyri Art Museum,
3. August 2024

Það er tíminn / C’est le temps
2024

Soprano and viola
Text: Exercices de style by Raymond Queneau
Premier: Dúlum dúó - Björk Níelsdóttir and Þórunn Margrét Sveinsdóttir

Tíbrá - concert series in Salurinn, Kópavogur,
25. February 2024

Svipbrigðin / Expressions passions de l’âme
2023
12 mín.
Violin and harp
Reflections on Charles le Bruin‘s drawings. 
Premier: Laufey Sigurðardóttir and Elísabet Waage 

Salurinn, Kópavogur
18. February 2024
Treystu náttmyrkrinu / Trust in night‘s darkness
2023
17 mín.
Soprano, flute clarinett, guitar
Poems: Sigurður Pálsson

Premier: Stirni ensemble 

Dark Music Days
24. January 2024

Ó eilífi foss sem rambar á fossvegum guðs / O eternal falls that reel along god’s cascading paths 
2022
60 mín.
Soprano, mezzo-soprano, accordion, harpsichord, percussion (two players), two harps.
Premier: Herdís Anna Jónasdóttir, Hildigunnur Einarsdóttir with CAPUT-ensemble conducted by Guðni Franzson

The Hafnarborg Song-festival
26. June 2022

Zerbrechliche Stimmen / Fragile Voices
2020
12 mín.
Piano and electronics
Premier:  Junko Yamamoto and Oliver Frick 

Gedok Galerie, Stuttgart
18. October 2020
Tre pezzi per tre flauti
2020
7 mín.
Alto-flute, bass-flute, contrabass-flute
Premier: Aulos ensemble 

Skálholt Summer Concerts
July 2020

Ekkert kemur í hans stað / Will not be replaced
2020
12 mín.
Mezzo-soprano and six instruments:
Poem: Steinunn Sigurðardóttir

Premier: Hildigunnur Einarsdóttir and Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra conducted by Rúnar Óskarsson 

Dark Music Days, Reykjavík
1. February 2020
Þrjár etýður og eftirmáli / Three etudes and epilogue
2019
12 mín.
Two harps
Premier: Elísabet Waage & Katie Buckley 

Salurinn, Kópavogur
3. March 2019 

Musik der Unzeitlichkeit II / Music of untimeliness II
2018
39 mín.
Flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello.
Premier: Kubus ensemble

Dark Music Days, Reykjavík
27. January 2019 

Ógjörningar / Impossible actions
2018
28 mín.
Pianist, artistic director, page-turner, flautist.
Reflections on the work of visual artist Örn Ingi

Premier: Þórarinn Stefánsson & friends

A! Performance festival, Akureyri
10. November 2018 
After all the sky flashes, the great sea yearns
2018
17 mín.
Sinfonietta, 14 players
Premier: New Juilliard Ensemble conducted by Joel Sachs 

Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center New York
28. April 2018
Life, friends
2017
12 mín.
Harp and percussion
Premier: Duo Harpverk / Katie Buckley and Frank Aarnink

10th anniversary concert, Salurinn, Kópavogur 
25. May 2017
Febrúarhiminn / February Sky
2017
15 mín.
Flute, clarinet, percussion, harp, piano, violin, cello.
Premier: Elektra ensemble

Harpa, Reykjavík
29. October 2017
Recorded for CD. Elektra Ensemble 2019
Danses achroniques
2013-2016
21 mín.
Harpsichord

Composed as a piece in progress. Several “first” performances by Guðrún Óskarsdóttir
 
Recorded for CD. In Paradisum. Bad taste 2016.

Icelandic Music Award 2016
Vissi ég þegar fór að bjarma með þyt / Knew I when it started to glow ... 2015
25 mín.
Flute and piano


Text: Fragments by Thor Vilhjálmsson and T. S. Eliot


Premier: Emilía Rós Sigfúsdóttir and Ástríður Alda Sigurðardóttir 

Hljóðön concert series in Hafnarborg
15. November 2015
Vorið langt / A long spring
2015
5 mín.
Alto-saxophone and mixed choir
Text: Reverend Gunnlaugur Snorrason (probably) 

Premier: Sölvi Kolbeinsson and Hamrahlíð Highschool Choir conducted by Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir

Hamrahlíð Highschool graduation ceremony 30th May 2015.

A version for choir a cappella is also available.
5 songs for 12 flutes
2015
15 mín.
Piccolos, standard- alto- bass- flutes
Text-fragments by Walt Whitman

Premier: The Icelandic Flute Choir conducted by Hallfríður Ólafsdóttir

International Flute Festival at National Gallery of Iceland
27th March 2015

A version for 10 flutes is also available
Musik der Unzeitlichkeit I / Music of untimeliness II
2015
1 mín!
Flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello.
Premier: Kubus ensemble 

Dark Music Days, Reykjavík
31. January 2015.
Caputsonata - Manuela Wiesler in memoriam
2013
34 mín.
Sinfonietta - 16 players
Premier: CAPUT-ensemble conducted by Guðni Franzson 

M.A. Graduation recital, Iceland Univeristy of the Arts, Reykjavík
26. Apríl 2013 
Reflections on Icelandic folksongs
2013
15 mín.
Piano
Ísland farsælda frón 
Fagurt er í Fjörðum

Recorded for CD.
Þórarinn Stefánsson: Polarfonia Classics 2014 í flutningi Þórarins
Sheet music. Polarfonia Classics 2015

Öll náttúran enn fer að deyja
Sheet music. Polarfonia Classics 2015
Un sonido entre las piedras / A sound among the stones
2011-2013
40 mín.
Soprano, alto-flute, viola, harp
Poems: Pablo Neruda, Edith Södergran, Else Lasker-Schüler, John Berryman

Premier of final version: Ingibjörg Guðjónsdóttir, Kolbeinn Bjarnason, Guðmundur Kristmundsson and Elísabet Waage

Dark Music Days, Reykjavík
2. February 2013
Jörð grær / The earth grows 2011
14 mín.
Mixed Choir
Premier: Hamrahlíð choir conducted by Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir 

Dark Music Days, Reykjavík
2012


 
Kolbeinn Bjarnason
Design: Andrea D Vatnsdal Pálsd. 2026