Atli Heimir Sveinsson

Atli Heimir Sveinsson

Atli Heimir Sveinsson (born 1938) is a famous Icelandic composer.

Sveinsson was born in Reykjavík, Iceland and started piano lessons at the age of 10. He studied piano with Rögnvaldur Sigurjonsson at the Reykjavík College of Music and took his diploma in 1957. He went on to study at the State Academy in Cologne, Germany, from 1959, studying composition with Günter Raphael and Rudolf Petzold, instrumentation with Bernd Alois Zimmermann, conducting with Wolfgang von der Nahmer and piano with Hermann Pillney and Hans Otto Schmidt. He also took private lessons with Gottfried Michael Koenig. He took his diploma in composition and theory in 1963, a year in which he also attended summer courses in Darmstadt, making acquaintance with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti and Bruno Maderna. In 1964 he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Christoph Caskel and Frederic Rzewski. In 1965 he went to the Netherlands and studied electronic music with Gottfried Michael Koenig in Bilthoven.cite web|url=http://notendur.centrum.is/~ahs/english/index.html|title=Sveinsson's Career|work=Sveinsson's Website|accessdate=2006-06-11]

He was president of the Icelandic Composers Association from 1972 to 1983. In 1976 he received the Nordic Council Music Prize for his "Flute Concerto". Since 1992 Atli Heimir Sveinsson has received an honorary salary from the Icelandic Parliament. Sveinsson was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1993. His recent "Symphony Number Two" premiered in Reykjavik on June 1, 2006.

Works

Sveinsson has a varied list of works to his credit including operas, ballet and major orchestral works widely performed, including:cite web|url=http://www.dansk-norsk.no/kalender/foobar_slaatto.html|title=Norregard-Nielsen Nytt i Natt fra Nord|year=2003|work=Fondet for dansk-norsk samarbeid|accessdate=2006-06-12]

* nine solo concertos
* numerous orchestral, chamber and solo works
* an orchestral song cycle to Steinn Steinarr's poem "Time and Water"
* operas "The Silk Drum", "Vikivaki TV opera", "Moonlight Island" and "Hertervig"
* three symphonies

References

External links

* [http://notendur.centrum.is/~ahs/english/ Atli Heimir Sveinsson's English Website]
* [http://www.mic.is Iceland Music Information Centre]


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