Haukur Tómasson
Haukur Haukur Tómasson (born 9 January 1960) is an Icelandic composer. He has a master's degree from the University of California, San Diego. He has also attended the Reykjavík College of Music, the Cologne University for Music and the Sweelinck Conservatory of Amsterdam.
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Haukur Tómasson

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- 1960 · Reykjavík.
- Nationality
- Iceland
- Occupation
- composer
- Education
- University of Southern California · Conservatorium van Amsterdam · University of California and San Diego
- Teachers
- Ton de Leeuw · Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson · Brian Ferneyhough
- Languages
- Icelandic
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Haukur Haukur Tómasson (born 9 January 1960) is an Icelandic composer. He has a master's degree from the University of California, San Diego. He has also attended the Reykjavík College of Music, the Cologne University for Music and the Sweelinck Conservatory of Amsterdam.
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Haukur Tómasson (born 1960) is a composer, of Icelandic nationality. The composer was born in Reykjavík. Haukur Tómasson was educated at Conservatorium van Amsterdam, University of California, San Diego and University of Southern California. Languages used include Icelandic.
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1960
Haukur Tómasson was born on 9 January 1960.
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Tómasson worked across composer. This article rests on 18 catalogued compositions and 2 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
The following list is from Íslensk tónverkamiðstöð: • 1983 – Quartet – (clarinet, violin, violoncello, & piano) duration: 00:06:30 • 1984 – Trio – (violin, violoncello & piano) duration: 00:08:00 • 1985 – 5 Landscapes – (alto saxophone, bass clarinet in Bflat/clarinet in Bflat, horn in F, viola, & guitar) duration: 00:15:00 • 1986 – 7 Miniatures – (clarinet & piano) duration: 00:07:30 • 1986 – Birting (Illumination) – (viola) duration: 00:05:00 • 1987 – Octette – (flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, horn, viola, violoncello, piano, & percussion) duration: 00:13:00 • 1988 – Eco Del Passato – (flute & harpsichord) duration: 00:09:00 • 1988 – Ether – (violoncello) duration: 00:05:30 • 1988 – Transformations – (clarinet (Bflat) & chamber orchestra) duration: 00:16:00 • 1989 – Quartet II – (Bflat clarinet, violin, violoncello, & piano) duration: 00:08:30 • 1990 – Offspring – (orchestra) duration: 00:15:50 • 1991 – Attempted Unification – (wind quintet) duration: 00:17:00 • 1992 – Spiral – (13 musicians) duration: 00:17:00 • 1993 – Strati – (orchestra) duration: 00:10:00 • 1993 – Trio Animato – (clarinet in Bflat, violoncello & double bass) duration: 00:09:00 • 1994 – Annual Ring – (orchestra) duration: 00:14:00 • 1994 – Annual Ring – (chamber orchestra) duration: 00:14:00 • 1996 – Gudrun's 4th Sang – semi-opera (8 soloists, male choir & 15 instruments) duration: 01:05:00 • 1997 – Concerto for Flute and Orchestra – (flute & orchestra) duration: 00:18:00 • 1997 – Concerto for Violin and Chamber Ensemble – (violin & chamber ensemble) duration: 00:24:30 • 1997 – Gatherings – (7 string players) duration: 00:09:00 • 1997 – Piano Trio – (violin, cello & piano) duration: 00:09:30 • 1997 – Rhyme – (orchestra) duration: 00:08:00 • 1998 – Magma – (orchestra) duration: 00:15:00 • 1998 – Rhyme – (chamber orchestra) duration: 00:08:20 • 1999 – Big Numbers – (soprano & chamber orchestra) duration: 00:23:00 • 1999 – Kopia – (flute, horn, viola, guitar (electric guitar), accordion, harpsichord & double bass) duration: 00:36:04 • 1999 – Long Shadow – (seven solo strings) duration: 00:18:00 • 2000 – Doors To Dreams – (orchestra) duration: 00:15:00 • 2000 – Fabella – (chamber orchestra) duration: 00:14:00 • 2000 – Pendulum – (cello) duration: 00:02:00 • 2001 – Flute Concerto No. 2 – (flute & orchestra) duration: 00:21:00 • 2001 – Spring Chicken – (clarinet) duration: 00:03:20 • 2002 – Long Shadow – (string quartet) duration: 00:17:00 • 2002 – Long Shadow (Six Variations on Fragments of Icelandic Folksongs) – (string quintet) duration: 00:17:00 • 2002 – Skíma – Concerto for Two Double Bass & Orchestra – Piano Reduction – (two double basses & orchestra (piano reduction)) duration: 00:17:00 • 2002 – Skíma – Concerto for Two Double Basses & Orchestra – (two double basses & orchestra) duration: 00:17:00 • 2003 – Broken Chords – (piano) duration: 00:06:00 • 2003 – String – (ensemble of 10 players) duration: 00:27:00 • 2003 – String Quartet 2003 – (string quartet) duration: 00:10:00 • 2004 – Ardente – (orchestra) duration: 00:10:00 • 2004 – Songs Of Guðrún – (soprano & chamber ensemble (2 violoncellos)) duration: 00:20:00 • 2004 – The Trap (Scene From Gudrun's 4th Song) – (orchestra) • 2005 – Landslag Með Tíma – (choir & 8 instruments) duration: 00:06:40 • 2005 – Songs Of Gudrun – (soprano & orchestra) duration: 00:20:00 • 2005 – Trio Animato – (viola, violoncello & double bass) duration: 00:08:00 • 2005 – Vetrarkvíði – (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, violoncello & electronics) duration: 00:08:30 • 2006 – Par – (chamber orchestra) duration: 00:23:00 • 2007 – Fögnuður – (soprano, mezzo-soprano & organ) • 2007 – Hún Er Vorið – (soprano & piano) duration: 00:02:00 • 2007 – Niður – Þytur – Brak – (soprano, accordion & 3 percussion players) duration: 00:15:00 • 2007 – Reaction – (accordion & double bass) duration: 00:09:20 • 2007 – Songs Of Gudrun – (soprano & chamber ensemble) duration: 00:20:00 • 2007 – From the Heavens fall the Fair Bright Stars – (oboe & orchestra) duration: 00:20:00 • 2008 - Glacial Pace – (piano) duration: 00:07:00 • 2008 - Dialogo - (orchestra) duration: 00:16:00 • 2008 - Grannmetislög, Ten children songs - (mezzosopran, flute, trumpet, piano, violin and cello) • 2009 - Piano Concerto - Everything Has Changed. Nothing Has Changed. - (Piano and Orchestra) duration: 00:25:00 • 2009 - Skak - (clarinet in Bb and piano) duration: 00:09:00 • 2009 - Flétta - (choir, chamber choir and ensemble) duration: 00:45:00 • 2010 - Moldarljós - (chamber ensemble) • 2011 - Skak - (clarinet in Bb, cello and piano) duration: 00:09:00 • 2011 - In Seventh Heaven - (orchestra) duration: 00:07:00 • 2011 - Tímamót Strengleikur Dægurlag - (mezzo-soprano and guitar) duration: 00:06:00 • 2012 - Offshoots - (harp and percussion) duration: 00:07:00 • 2012 - Höfuðskepnur - (orchestra) duration: 00:25:00 • 2012 - Earth Pulse - (orchestra) duration 00:06:00 • 2012 - Serimonia - (string quartet) duration 00:11:00 • 2013 - Facade - (8 (7) players) duration 00:09:00 • 2013 - From Darkness Woven (orchestra) 00:13:00 • 2014 - Melankolia perpetualis - (bass voice and 4 players) 00:25:00 • 2015 - Echo Chamber (viola and orchestra) 00:19:00 • 2015 - Verse - (clarinet, cello, piano) duration 00:13:00 • 2016 - Split - (trombone, percussion, cello) 00: 09:00 • 2016 - Tímans tönn - (soprano and orchestra)(Poems by Steinunn Sigurðardóttir) duration 00:20:00 • 2017 - Piano Concerto no. 2 (2017) duration 00:17:00 • 2018 - Rounds for ensemble duration 00:09:00 • 2018 - Unravelled (flute, clarinet, piano, violin & cello) duration 00:09:00 • 2018 - It Relaxes Me, the Repetition for orchestra duration 00:15:00 • 2019 - Nature morte for harp, cimbalom and ensemble duration 00:13:00 • 2019 - Break for string quartet duration 00:09:00 • 2019 - Presence for orchestra duration 00:11:00 • 2020 - Birkitré for choir duration 00:09:00 • 2020 - Archipelago for violin and sound curtains duration 00:16:00 • 2021 - Model, Replica (violin & vioal) duration 00:13:00 • 2021 - Antiphony (organ & accordion) duration 00:13:00 • 2021 - Flux (1-8 players & playback) duration 00:07:00 • 2021 - Earth, Mist, Sky (2021) fyrir hljómsveit duration 00:15:00 • 2022 - Tongues in Trees for violin duration 00:07:00 • 2022 - Air Sculptured (string ensemble) duration 00:11:00 • 2022 - Allt missir lögun sína - (tuba & orchestra) duration 00:20:00 • 2022 - Vera bara vera (voice & piano) duration 00:09:00 • 2023 - Detour (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello) duration 00:07:00

Nordiska rådets musikprisvinnare 2004, Haukur Tómasson från Island
Magnus Fröderberg · Magnus Fröderberg/norden.org · Nordic Co-operation website (norden.org)

Haukur Tómasson, vinnare av Nordiska rådets musikpris 2004
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- 1.Anders Beyer. The Icelandic composer Haukur Tómasson is to be awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize 2004 for the work Gudrun's Fourth Song. Danmarks Elektroniske Forskningsbibliotek. September 2018.
- 2.Music prize to Haukur Tómasson. norden. 7 June 2004.
- 3.Unknown. Prom 48: Ever Icelandic - Tectonics at the Royal Albert Hall.
- 4.Haukur Tómasson. 29 August 2007.
- 5.Haukur Tómasson. BIS Records AB. 2008.
- 6.itmsearch. Íslensk tónverkamiðstöð. October 2017.
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Formation and teaching. Tómasson studied at University of Southern California, Conservatorium van Amsterdam and University of California, San Diego. He trained under Ton de Leeuw, Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson and Brian Ferneyhough. Connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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