Valgeir Sigurðsson

Valgeir Sigurðsson is a composer, producer and founder of Greenhouse Studios and the Bedroom Community record label, based in Reykjavík. He has released three solo albums (Ekvílibríum, Dreamland and Architecture of Loss) and has collaborated with artists such as Nico Muhly, Ben Frost, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, CocoRosie, Feist, Damon Albarn, Björk, The Kronos Quartet and many many others. Valgeir has composed music for film, stage and dance and his work has been performed by The Iceland Symphony Orchestra, The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, The Chiara String Quartet, The Crash Ensemble, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, and others.

Átjánhundruðsjötíuogfimm (Eighteen Hundred & Seventy-Five)
Commissioned by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra for their 2014 New Music Festival, Eighteen Hundred & Seventy-Five is Valgeir's first commission  for large orchestra. The WSO performed Dreamland, an orchestral adaptation of Valgeir's film score of the same name at the New Music Festival in 2012 and subsequently commissioned this new work. The title is a reference to the Icelandic settlement in Winnipeg. “The winter of 1875–1876 was one of the coldest on record in Manitoba”.

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