Gabríel Ólafs
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Gabríel Ólafs (1998) is an Icelandic pianist, producer and composer. Starting to play piano at age five, he received classical and jazz training in his teens and wrote his first piece “Absent Minded” when he was 14. His debut album of the same name arrived in 2019, followed by “Piano Works”. More recent recordings were inspired by Icelandic poetry and ancient Viking melodies. In 2022, Ólafs co-founded the Reykjavik Orkestra, which produces compositional works for film, TV, and streaming services.
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The Icelandic Auteur - An interview with Gabríel Ólafs, Gen Z’s most important classical composer
At just 25-years-old, Icelandic composer Gabríel Ólafs is already one of classical music’s most exciting composers. He has released several albums, racked up 200 million streams, and has co-founded an orchestra for film and TV music that features on his new recording—an album that reimagines his most popular compositions with additional production and instrumentation. Read our interview here…
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.
