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Hugi Guðmundsson (10 June 1977) is an Icelandic composer of contemporary classical music. His work is performed internationally at concerts and music festivals. He lives and works as a composer in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hugi Guðmundsson (born 1977 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is one of the most prominent Icelandic contemporary composers of his generation. He studied classical guitar from a young age, but early on his true passion was playing electric guitar in death metal bands.
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Hugi Guðmundsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1977. He studied composition at Reykjavik College of Music with Úlfar Ingi Haraldsson, Royal Danish Academy of Music with Hans Abrahamsen, Bent Sørensen and Niels Rosing-Schow and electronic music at The Institute of Sonology, The Netherlands.
Hugi Gudmundsson has been nominated nine times for the Icelandic Music Awards and received the award in 2013 for his orchestra piece Orkestur and in 2008 for Apocrypha, for baroque ensemble and electronics.
Hugi Guðmundsson’s chamber opera Hamlet in Absentia is captivating and full of contrasts. Hugi combines clearly defined form with the unconventional by using leitmotifs and recitatives, arias, and choruses in his highly original music.
Mar 29, 2023 · On 28 April, the first recording of Hugi Guðmundsson's award-winning oratorio The Gospel of Mary, a moving work which combines the Baroque oratorio tradition with a contemporary setting.
