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Icelandic pianist, conductor, musicologist and lecturer.
Árni Heimir Ingólfsson is an Icelandic musicologist, choral conductor, pianist, and harpsichordist. He holds a PhD in historical musicology from Harvard University, and BM-degrees in music history and piano performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In 2004, he founded the Carmina Chamber Choir, and their CDs of music from Icelandic manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries have won rave reviews, including Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine, as well as twice winning CD of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards. As a pianist and harpsichordist, he has recorded several CDs and appeared in concert in Iceland, England, Germany, Italy, Canada, and the United States.
Ingólfsson is also one of Iceland’s leading musicologists. Among his books are Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland (Indiana University Press, 2019), which was listed as one of that year’s best books on music by Alex Ross of The New Yorker, and Music at World’s End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contribution to Music in Iceland (SUNY Press, 2025), about how Iceland’s thriving music scene was shaped in part by refugees from Nazi Germany. Ingólfsson is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed articles, and is a three-time nominee for the Icelandic Book Award. Praised as a terrific lecturer by American Record Guide, Ingólfsson has given lectures and pre-concert talks throughout the world, including at conferences in Europe, Asia, and the United States. He was a special guest speaker at the LA Philharmonic’s Reykjavík Festival in 2017, an Erasmus guest lecturer at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, and has held visiting fellowships at Oxford University, Harvard, and Yale.