Anna Thorvaldsdottir Signs To Music Sales

The Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir has signed a long-term agreement with Chester Music, part of The Music Sales Group of Companies, to publish her music beginning July 2017. Thorvaldsdottir's work is notable for its command of large-scale musical structures which seem to unfold organically while never losing focus on their ultimate destination. This can be heard in orchestral pieces such as Dreaming, for which she won the 2008 Nordic Council Music Prize, and AERIALITY, which has received over 20 performances since its premiere in 2011. Ensemble works, including the 40-minute cycle In the Light of Air, allow the listener to dwell on the ingenuity of the composer's instrumental writing, while the recent choral piece Ad Genua demonstrates her naturally expressive vocal music. Her largest scale work to date is UR_, a chamber opera with a cast of four characters which deals with the human struggle to return to a natural state of being. Thorvaldsdottir was the recipient of the New York Philharmonic's Kravis Emerging Composer Award in 2015. It includes an orchestral commission for premiere in spring 2018.