Páll Ragnar Pálsson & Tui Hirv
Biographie Páll Ragnar Pálsson & Tui Hirv
Páll Ragnar Pálsson
(born 1977) is an Icelandic composer. He holds a PhD in music from Estonian Academy of the Arts (2014) but lives in Reykjavík since graduation. Páll has worked with most contemporary music collectives in Iceland and establishes new collaborations with artists all over the world every year that passes. He has released two albums, Nostalgia and Atonement, with his own music and had works published on compilations along others. He has participated at the International Rostrum of Composers twice, once on behalf of Estonia (2013) and Iceland (2018) where he won the first prize for Quake, a concerto for cello and orchestra.
Páll‘s works have been selected composition of the year twice by the Icelandic Music Awards. In later years, Páll has widened his profile in the direction of film scores and his first work, music for the film Quake (2022), a collaboration with Edvarð Egilsson, was nominated both for Nordic Music Film Awards and Edda, the Icelandic Film Awards.
Páll Ragnar has worked with: soloists such as Martin Kuuskmann, Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir conductors such as Daniel Bjarnason, Olari Elts, Ilan Volkov, Rumon Gamba and Risto Joost. Orchestras such as Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, BBC orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, LA Phil and NDR chamber orchestra.
His music has been played in halls such as Harpa in Reykjavík, Berlin Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Walt Disney Hall in LA and Maide Vale Studios in London.
Páll has an active collaboration going on with the US indie label Sono Luminus.
Tui Hirv
is an Estonian soprano living in Reykjavík, Iceland. She graduated from Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with a BA degree in singing in 2007 and MA in musicology in 2009. Tui Hirv has been active both in the vivid choir music scene of Estonia and as a soloist of contemporary chamber music. In 2008–2009 she worked with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. With conductor Tõnu Kaljuste they recorded an album with the music of Arvo Pärt for ECM New Series, Adam’s Lament, which includes a piece named L’Abbé Agathon, where Tui performs as a soloist, and received the Grammy Award in 2014 for best choral performance. Tui Hirv has also been singing with early music vocal group Vox Clamantis under the guidance of Jaan-Eik Tulve. Their recording of Liszt's Via Crucis for the French record company Mirare was awarded Diapason d'Or in 2013. As a soloist, Tui Hirv has cooperated with various new music ensembles, premiering pieces and new arrangements by various Estonian composers. Over recent years Tui has had a fruitful cooperation with Icelandic composer Páll Ragnar Pálsson.
