Composers
ATLI ÖVARSSON
Raised in the small town of Akureyri in the north of Iceland, Atli Örvarsson relocated to Los Angeles early on to pursue a career in composition. There, Atli worked extensively alongside prolific TV veteran Mike Post and Hollywood legend Hans Zimmer, which launched his career leading him to score over 40 films and countless TV shows.
In 2014, Atli felt a calling to move back to Iceland and reconnect with his roots. Soon after, he started building up a studio complex in Akureyri and began his collaboration with the ‘Sinfonia Nord’ Orchestra, which has performed on many world-renowned films and productions.
Since returning to Akureyri, Atli has felt his most inspired. Once a place he yearned to escape, his hometown has now become a lifeblood for inspiration and inner peace and a catalyst in the inception of his debut album. This notion of having gone ‘full-circle’ led Atli through a process of self-reflection to discover himself and his own musical identity.
His debut solo album You Are Here came out on INNI in Summer 2020.
SIN FANG
Emerging in Iceland’s explosive music scene of the early 2000s, almost entirely by accident, this unassuming but uniquely talented soul got his start in the visual arts.
Through a homemade EP he made more or less on a whim, he has since then been catapulted into international fame, working on everything from his own solo project to film scores and commercials.
He has released six studio albums under his Sin Fang moniker, as well as countless collaborations. He is a founding member of Seabear, Gangly and Team Dreams and has composed extensively for other media in the past few years.
His sixth studio album The Last Shall be First came out on INNI in Fall 2020.
ROSE RIEBL
Rose trained intensively as a classical pianist from the age of five, later studying at Australian National Academy of Music, Sydney Conservatorium and the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. Her work as a professional concert pianist has seen her debut at the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, and tour through some of Asia’s leading concert halls.
Her compositional work extends her intimate relationship with the piano into a realm of more fragile, soulful and transcendent works that guide the listener into vulnerable emotional spaces. She has performed her own compositions in concert halls through Asia, Europe and Australia and has collaborated with multi-disciplinary artists in performances that take her work into open air, or alternate environments that provoke expansive listening experiences for the audience.
She has composed extensively for the moving image and theatre and ‘Do Not Move Stones’ is her debut album of compositions released in June this year, via INNI.
MÚM
Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Smárason, founders of experimental pop collective múm, have long been driven by their curiosity and creative passion. As well as having recorded six full albums, múm have always gravitated towards diverse projects and collaborations with artists such as as Kylie Minogue, the Kronos Quartet, the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hauschka and the MDR Sinfonieorchester in Leipzig, to name a few. One of múm’s more recent extracurricular project is a semi- improvised electronic music score to the silent masterpiece Menschen am Sonntag (1930) which they performed all over Europe and was released on a special blu-ray version by the BFI & their critically acclaimed score to Icelandic film 'The Swan'.
KJARTAN HOLM
Kjartan Holm is a Reykjavík based composer and musician with a diverse background in music, having composed music for films, TV, theatre and video games as well as performing music under his own name.
He’s released one album under his own name, Amusics (2020) and has been commissioned to write bigger pieces for classical ensembles, soloists and various installations.
He’s worked closely with acts such as Sigur Rós, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Ólafur Arnalds and Hildur Guðnadóttir on numerous projects, everything from being a performer to a composer and arranger.
He’s currently working on many different projects - both for media and live performance as well as recording a new album.
Colm Mac Con Iomaire
Colm Mac Con Iomaire is a highly acclaimed Irish composer and multi-instrumentalist, renowned for his deeply expressive work influenced by the natural world, his native Irish language and homeland. His diverse body of work spans film scores, theatre productions, dance performances, and three critically celebrated solo albums. A prolific collaborator, Colm has toured internationally, continually blending traditional and contemporary styles in his compositions. Raised in a musically rich household—his father a renowned broadcaster, song collector and Sean Nós singer and his mother a talented pianist—his work is a reflection of his cultural heritage and artistic upbringing.
Kári Einarsson
A multi-instrumentalist producer and a sound engineer, Kári Einarsson surfaced into the Icelandic music scene in 2016 with his enigmatic electro band aYia. aYia became an overnight sensation and have since grown to prestige and international recognition. Before aYia, Kári toured the world as a guitarist in the shoegaze quintet Oyama. Nowadays Kári focuses on his solo work alongside his emerging into the world of film- scoring, starting with scoring a documentary about one of Iceland’s most famous and loved visual artists
Úlfur Hansson
Úlfur Hansson is a Reykjavik via Brooklyn-based solo musician, film composer and sound artist. He has released three albums—2008’s ‘Sweaty Psalms,’ followed by ‘White Mountain’ (2013) and ‘Arborescence’ (2017). He has also performed and collaborated with Gyða Valtýsdóttir, Nordic Affect, Kronos Quartet, and Jónsi, among others. He is also the creator of the Segulharpa (electromagnetic harp, in English)—an electromagnetically powered acoustic instrument he invented and built—which is currently in use as part of Björk’s ‘Cornucopia’ show.
Some of his works have been written for classical ensembles, such as the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, and the Kronos Quartet. In 2013 he was named Young Composer of the Year at the International Rostrum of Composers.