Hildur Guðnadóttir
Camille Blake
Hildur Guðnadóttir (1982) is an Icelandic cellist and composer. A two-time Grammy winner, she is mainly known for her film and TV work, among them soundtracks for the movies “Joker” and “Tár”, and the TV miniseries “Chernobyl”. Having studied composition in Reykjavik and Berlin, she released four solo albums between 2006 and 2014 and played on recordings by Ben Frost, Múm, The Knife, and Sunn O))). Since the release of her last album “Sama”, she’s successfully focused on scoring movies.
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The Dark Drones of Hildur Guðnadóttir
Clearly not your run-of-the-mill Hollywood soundtracks: grains takes a deeper look at the lauded, droning film scores of Icelandic cellist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir (Chernobyl, Joker, Tár). What makes them stand out?
7 Albums That Defined Neoclassical
Easy listening for the TikTok age or sophisticated post-classical contemporary music? Regardless of where you stand on the matter of "neoclassical" music, there’s no doubt that these 7 albums by composers such as Einaudi, Richter, Jóhannsson and others have already stood the test of time.
The Sound of Iceland
A small island in the Northern Atlantic ocean massively shaped neoclassical music: Icelandic composers like Jóhann Jóhannsson or Ólafur Arnalds created a movement by infusing their compositions with influences from cinematic post-rock, crescendo-core and widescreen electronic music. We picked 5 of the most influential records from Iceland.
