Anna Thorvaldsdottir

In the music of Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, large avant-garde structures and textured instrumentation serve to evocatively represent the natural world. Trained partly in the U.S., Thorvaldsdottir emerged in the 2010s with recordings such as her debut album, 2011's Rhízoma, and orchestral works including 2011's AERIALITY and 2018's METACOSMOS, a symphonic poem. In her compositions for small ensembles, many of which encompass electronics or modified instruments, Thorvaldsdottir has often collaborated with groups specializing in avant-garde music, including Yarn/Wire...