Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music. Her powerful and striking sound-world is deeply inspired by the landscape of her native Iceland, as she creates through her music both the delicacy and the immensity of constantly changing natural processes. Thorvaldsdottir’s “seemingly boundless textural imagination” (NY Times) has won her awards from the New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center and Nordic Council.
Photo: Anna Maggý
Thorvaldsdottir has carved her own corner in contemporary music by creating symphonic works of sustained brilliance and considerable powerThe Times
Anna Thorvaldsdottir at Aldeburgh Festival
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Pre-performance talk with Anna Thorvaldsdottir
An opportunity to hear an Aldeburgh Festival featured composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir talk about her work including the evening’s performance of her elemental new work, Metacosmos.
Peter Pears Recital Room, Snape Maltings
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BBC Philharmonic II
Be swept up by a stirring trio of powerful orchestral works by Britten, Tchaikovsky and Aldeburgh Festival featured composer, Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
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BBC Symphony Orchestra | AIŌN
In this epic programme, the BBC Symphony Orchestra returns to Snape Maltings Concert Hall to perform Mahler’s Symphony No.1 and the UK premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s AIŌN, an electrifying exploration of time.
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
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Danish String Quartet | Rosamunde
The world-renowned Danish String Quartet makes its Aldeburgh Festival debut playing a new work by Anna Thorvaldsdottir alongside its inspiration, Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet.
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
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Remembrances and Memories
Chinese-American pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu is “one of the most exciting pianists of our time” (The Arts Desk). He plays works by Schumann, Beethoven, Cassandra Miller with Michael Finnissy, and a UK premiere by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, plus Fu's own Passacaglia on a theme by Radiohead.
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
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Sixteen Strings
In an unmissable Aldeburgh Festival evening, a rare opportunity to see four string quartets share the Snape Maltings Concert Hall stage.
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
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