List of works / compositions



Litbrigði
2024

5 min.
Piccolo
Premier: Petrea Óskarsdóttir
Windworks - 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 & 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 18th 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 24th January 2024


Ó eilífi foss sem rambar á fossvegum guðs / Oh Eternal Cascade ...
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 26th June 2022


Zerbrechliche Stimmen / Fragile Voices
2020

12 mín.
Piano and electronics
Premier:  Junko Yamamoto, piano. Oliver Frick, electronics. Gedok Galerie Stuttgart 18th October 2020.

Tre pezzi per tre flauti
2020

7 mín.
Alto-flute, bass-flute, contrabass-flute
Premier: Aulos ensemble.
Summer Concerts in Skálholt Church 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. 1st February 2020


Þrjár etýður og eftirmáli / Three etudes and epilogue 2019
12 mín.
Two harps
Premier: Elísabet Waage & Katie Buckley.
Salurinn, Kópavogur 3rd Marsh 2019 


Musik der Unzeitlichkeit II / Music of untimeliness II 2018
39 mín.
Flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello.
Premier: Kubus ensemble
Dark Music Days 27th 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 10th 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 28th 2018.


Life, friends
2017

12 mín.
Harp and percussion
Premier: Duo Harpverk / Katie Buckley & Frank Aarnink. 10th anniversary concert. Salurinn, Kópavogur. 25th May 2017

Febrúarhiminn / February Sky
2017

15 mín.
Flute, clarinet, percussion, harp, piano, violin, cello.
Premier: Elektra ensemble.
Harpa, Reykjavík 29th 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 & Ástríður Alda Sigurðardóttir. Hljóðön concert series in Hafnarborg 15th November 2015.

Vorið langt / A long spring
2015

5 mín.
Alto-saxophone and mixed choir
Text: Reverend Gunnlaugur Snorrason (probably).
Premier: Sölvi Kolbeinsson & 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
Premier: The Icelandic Flute Choir conducted by Hallfríður Ólafsdóttir.
International Flute Festival at National Gallery of Iceland 27th Mars 2015.
Text-fragments by Walt Whitman
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 31st 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 26th 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 2nd February 2013


Jörð grær / The earth grows 2011
14 mín.
Mixed Choir
Premier: Hamrahlíð choir conducted by Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir. Dark Music Days 2012.