|   | Jónas Tómasson studied at the Reykjavík College of Music, 
           where he was taught composition by Jón Þórarinsson and Þorkell 
           Sigurbjörnsson. He pursued further studies at the Sweelinck Music Conservatory in
           Amsterdam under Ton de Leeuw, Léon Orthel , Jos Kunst and others from 1969 to 1972.
           At that time Amsterdam was attracting young artists from all over the world, among them a
           group of avant-garde Icelandic visual artists who founded the conceptual art group 
           SÚM (Young Artists' Society). Jónas soon became an active member of
           SÚM, and his music was deeply influenced by their ideology. Returning to Iceland in 1973, Jónas settled in 
           Ísafjörður in the West Fjords, where he has lived since. 
           He has played a prominent part in various fields of musical life there, as a teacher of 
           flute and theoretical subjects at the Ísafjörður Music School, a 
           flautist and choir conductor; and for years he has supervised concert programmes
           for the Ísafjörður Music Society. Composition remained his primary
           vocation, however, and in recent years it has been his full-time occupation.
 Jónas is a prolific composer, whose works are varied and diverse. 
           His compositions include a number of symphonic works, and in recent years he has
           written eight Sinfoniettas exploring the sound world of the symphonic orchestra
           with different instrumentations. He has also composed several concertos, e.g.
           for organ, viola, piano, two pianos and orchestra. Choral works, sacred and
           secular, are a large part of his oeuvre, for instance Missa Tibi Laus, A
           Lucas Oratorio, Missa Brevis and Songs to the Earth.
           Jónas has composed many chamber works for diverse and often innovative
           combinations of instruments, as well as solo works for instruments or voice,
           often at the special request of the artists.
 Many of Iceland's leading musicians have performed Jónas' works:
           the Iceland Symphony Orchestra has played many of his symphonic works and concertos,
           and the Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra, the Caput ensemble, the Ýmir
           ensemble, the Hallgrímskirkja Motet Choir and many smaller musical groups and
           soloists have had his works in their repertoire and performed them around the world.
 Recordings have been made of many of his works, which have been broadcast 
           on radio and issued on CDs. The Icelandic Music Centre released a CD of his music, 
           Portrait, and his Dýrð Krists (The Glory of Christ) for 
           solo organ was issued on a CD of the same name.
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   |   | Herdís Anna Jónasdóttir studied singing in the 
        Ísafjörður Music School in North-West Iceland, the Iceland Academy 
        of the Arts in Reykjavík and the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. She 
        has taken part in several opera productions in Iceland, Germany and Switzerland. 
        Her operatic roles include Adele in The Bat, Zerlina in Don 
        Giovanni, The Queen of Schemacha in The Golden Cockerel,
        Mabel in the Pirates of Penzance, Sophie in Werther, 
        Nannetta in Falstaff, Oscar in A Masked Ball and Musetta 
        in La Bohème. Herdís Anna has also been very active on the concert stage, 
        performing at the Carl Orff Festival, with the Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra, 
        the Saarland State Orchestra and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Since the autumn 
        of 2013, Herdís Anna has been engaged as a soloist at the Saarland
        State Theatre in Saarbrücken, Germany and recently she was elected the 
        Singer of the Year by the opera's Sponsor Club.
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   |   | Þórunn Arna Kristjánsdóttir started her 
        musical education at the Ísafjörður Music School and continued at 
        the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík where she received her B.Mus. 
        degree in singing. Subsequently she started studying at the drama department of 
        the same Academy, finishing her degree in 2010. That year she was employed as an 
        actor at the National Theatre and appeared in plays such as Les Miserables, 
        Macbeth and the Little Prince. For her lead role in the play Karma for Birds, 
        she was nominated to the Gríma Award in 2013. In 2014, she moved over to the
        Reykjavík City Theatre, performing in works such as Billy Elliot and, most 
        recently, in Mamma Mia. Þórunn Arna has appeared in television programs in 
        Iceland, and participated in various theater-related projects at home and abroad. 
        At the Icelandic Opera the has sung the title role of the Little Girl with the 
        Matches and Flora in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw.
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   |   | Hlíf Sigurjónsdóttir furthered her violin 
        studies at the Universities of Indiana and Toronto with Franco Gulli and Lorand 
        Fenyves, and the Banff School of Fine Arts. Later she took lessons with Gerald Beal 
        in New York. She has been fortunate enough to work with many of the leading
        musicians of the twentieth century, including William Primrose, Janos Starker, 
        Rucciero Ricci, Igor Oistrach, György Sebök and the members of the 
        Hungarian quartet. Hlíf has given numerous concerts both as a soloist and with 
        various ensembles and orchestras. A critically acclaimed 2-CD set of her playing 
        the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by J.S. Bach has been highly praised, 
        as well as her most recent disk, DIALOGUS, with solo violin works, 
        all of which were written for her.
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   |   | Leon van Mil studied music at the Sweelinck Conservatory in 
        Amsterdam, graduating as an 'Improvising Musician', with the baritone saxophone as 
        his main instrument. Since then Leon has been very active as a saxophone player 
        in various musical styles with the emphasis on jazz. He is a member of the dance 
        band Zoot, the jazz quartet Beaugard and the pop group Vanzanden and is the 
        conductor of a Big Band in Amsterdam. Leon has released several CDs with his 
        saxophone quartet Saxo Panico, including Stabat Mater by Pergolesi. He has 
        taken part in concert tours to China, Thailand and all over Europe, 
        including Iceland. Besides playing, Leon teaches the saxophone and leads the 
        Jazz Academy in the Amsterdam Music School.
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   |   | Educated in Hannover and Münster in Germany and later in Boston, 
        Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir plays every style of the 
        piano repertoire. She has a wide range of experience with contemporary music
        and has been active as a performance artist, as well as a pianist and an 
        improviser. Her creative output includes making sound-scapes, playing prepared 
        and toy pianos and collaborating with a variety of other art forms. Tinna has premiered around 70 piano works specially written for her 
        in recent years and has also performed at a wide variety of special events 
        including the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai and the Venice Biennale in 2011. 
        Tinna's solo CD Granit Games with Icelandic piano music was released
        in 2007. She is one of the curators for the artist collective Peripheriberry 
        and of the Cycle Music and Art Festival. Tinna was awarded the DV Culture 
        Prize in Iceland in 2013.
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   |   | Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir studied the piano 
        at the Music Schools of Ísafjörður and Akureyri, the Reykjavík 
        College of Music and the University of Houston in Texas. Among her teachers were
        Ragnar H. Ragnar, Philip Jenkins, Halldór Haraldsson and Nancy Weems. 
        Sólveig Anna also has extensive experience as a piano teacher and an 
        accompanist. She is currently the assistant principal of the Garðabær 
        Music School. Sólveig Anna has worked with solo singers, choirs, soloists 
        and chamber orchestras and has also performed in Iceland and abroad.
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   |   | Anna Áslaug Ragnarsdóttir studied music at the music 
        schools in Ísafjörður and Reykjavík and later in London and 
        Munich. She has been active as a pianist on the concert stage in Europe, North
        America and Japan. She has given a great number of solo recitals in Iceland, 
        e.g. for the Dark Music Days, the Tíbrá Concert Series, LSÓ 
        Summer Concerts, the music societies in Reykjavík, Akureyri and 
        Ísafjörður. On several occasions she has been a soloist with the 
        Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Anna Áslaug has recorded for radio and 
        television and the Iceland Music Information Centre has released a record of her 
        playing Icelandic contemporary piano music. In recent years Anna Áslaug has been increasingly active 
        performing chamber music and as an accompanist with singers. Anna Áslaug 
        resides in Munich and Reykjavík.
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