It’s no secret, 2020 has not been a great year for live music. The pandemic has, however, driven innovation in the area of digital concerts. Streaming full-length concerts on YouTube, Facebook and dedicated platforms like the newly launched DG Stage have become much more commonplace, with artists pushing the concepts and production value of their […]

Unlike the piano – which unless creatively modified is confined to the 12 pitches of the Western chromatic scale – the strings have access to the notes between the notes. This freedom allows for all manner of expressive wobbling, bending, and sliding. The emotional potential of stringed instruments is only magnified when they gather in […]

Last and First Men is the poetic swansong of composer Jóhann Jóhannsson – a haunting multimedia project that draws from classic cult sci-fi novel and images of mysterious monumental sculpture to form an elegiac meditation on memory and loss. The Icelandic composer was working on the score of his magnum opus at the time of […]

Icelandic composer us the first woman to win as a solo composer in the history of the Golden Globe Awards.

An artist who defies classification and disregards traditional generic boundaries, Icelandic cellist, singer and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir has earned a unique place on the contemporary music scene thanks to her virtuosity, versatility and originality. Now based in Berlin, Hildur is enjoying unprecedented international recognition for her film and television work, having just become the first […]