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Anna S Þorvaldsdóttir (Composer)

Born: 11th July 1977, Rekyjevik, Iceland

Nationality: Icelandic

Anna Sigríður Þorvaldsdóttir (Anna Thorvaldsdottir) is an Icelandic composer and 2012 winner of the Nordic Council Music Prize. In 2015, she was chosen as the New York Philharmonic's Kravis Emerging Composer, an honor that includes a $50,000 cash prize and a commission to write a composition for the orchestra; she is the second recipient. The orchestra later performed the premiere of her symphonic poem Metacosmos under the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen in April 2018.

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Recording of the Week, New choral music from Iceland and England

A double-bill of contemporary works for choir - Icelandic splendour from Graham Ross and the choir of Clare College, and Westminster commissions from Dove, Weir and Martin.

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