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Gunnar Karel Másson was born in Reykjavík May 17th 1984. He started studying music at an early age and has played a diverse range of instruments. Gunnar started his compositional studies in the fall of 2007 at the Icelandic Academy of Arts. He will be awarded with a B.A. in composition in 2010.

 

In the fall of 2008 Gunnar Karel was assigned to compose the music for the Reykjavik City´s Theater  production of Gangverkiđ, premiered in October, and again did the musical composition for Shakespeare´s “Twelfth Night”, premiered in March 2009, produced by The National Theater of Iceland.
Both productions were co-produced  with the Student Theater of The Icelandic Academy of The Arts.
In September the experimental theater piece Homo Absconditus was shown at the international theater festival Lókal in Reykjavík, where Gunnar Karel was the musical director.

 

Gunnar Karel was one of three finalists in a competition to compose for The Chamber orchestra Ísafold in connection with “Viđ Djúpiđ”  (Iceland) music festival this summer.
At  the “64. Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker” (Germany)  Gunnar Karel will be one of  three Young Composer in residence, as the representative for Northern Europe. He will be commissioned to write a piece for “The Boulanger Trio”   which will be premiered at the festival.
A piece written by him was premiered at the “Ung Nordisk Musik”  in Göteborg (Sweden), august 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

List of works;

 

9th of January 2009 (1st performance)
Flćđi II, a piece for 5 bassoons and 2 contrabassoons, premiered in Reykjavík Iceland in Fríkirkjan.

 

22nd of June 2009 (1st performance)
Mögu Legri, a piece for chamber orchestra. Ísafold Chamber orchestra premiered this piece in connection with Viđ Djúpiđ music festival in Isafjörđur town in the west fjords of Iceland

 

25th of July 2009 (1st performance)
Ţrá Skalt Efla, a piece for piano trio. Boulanger Trio premiered this piece at the Sommerliche Musiktage in Hitzacker Germany.
It will also be performed by Reykjavik Trio in March 2010.

 

5th of August 2009 (1st performance)
Strengjakvartett No. 4, for string quartet, premiered in Göteborg Sweden at the Ung Nordisk Musik festival.

 

Program notes for Strengjakvartett No. 4;
This piece is an exercise in the endurance of both the performer and audience, an inquiry into the abyss of human relations. Will the performers make it to the end without being scoffed at by the ever criticizing audience of proletarian proportionalistic ideology.

 

 

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