CV
Arts and music education
2024-2026 Sound Art MFA, Columbia University
2023-2024 Internship with Bára Gísladóttir, supported by Erasmus
2020-2023 Iceland University of the Arts, BA in composition
2020-2023 FÍH, advanced guitar studies
2017-2020 Menntaskóli í tónlist, advanced pipe organ studies
2016-2017 FÍH, jazz piano and harmony studies
2007-2016 Tónskólinn DoReMi, piano studies
Exhibitions
2026 Columbia MFA Thesis show at Wallach Art Gallery, New York
2025 PS. peace of art, group show at Satellite Art Show, New York
Vængjasláttur (Listhópar Hins hússins showcase), Reykjavík Art
Museum, Reykjavík
Columbia MFA summer show, group show at The Blanc, New York
Signal Whispers, group show at Tramps gallery, New York
First Year MFA exhibition, group show at Wallach Art Gallery, New
York
2024 Kulturkvarteret, sound installation, Örebro
2023 Hannesarholt, sound installation, Reykjavík
Notable concerts and music festivals
2026 MOXsonic festival and conference, performace of new piece with Ana
Luisa Díaz de Cossío
2025 UNM 2025 Icelandic delegate
Sumartónleikar í Skálholti 2025, premiere of new commission for
Nordic Affect
Hátíðni music festival 2025, as member of Ateria
2024 Nordic Music Days 2024, premiere of new piece for Defunensemble
UNM 2024 Icelandic delegate
Upprásin x Iceland Airwaves 2024, as Asalaus
Hátíðni festival 2024, performance of audiovisual piece Hjáleið |
Déviation, with Ferdinand Ledoux
NeoVoyager 2024, premiere of new commission for NeoQuartet
Electronics performer with Athelas Sinonietta at KLANG/ATHELAS
jubilæumskoncert
2023 Hátíðni festival 2023, as Asalaus
The Singing Fish Circus 2023, performance at festival in New York
supported by Taste of Iceland with Anne Carson, Bára Gísladóttir,
Gyða Valtýsdóttir, Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, Ásta Fanney
Sigurðardóttir, Benni Hemm Hemm and more
2022 Nordic Music Days 2022, performance piece with Jesper Pedersen and
Páll Ivan frá Eiðum
2019 Iceland Airwaves 2018 & 2019, as member of Ateria
2018 Innipúkinn 2018, as member of Ateria
Secret Solstice 2018, as member of Ateria
Releases
2024 Hjáleið | Déviation, audiovisual, Asalaus
Musgo, Gaffer Ensemble
2023 Voð – excerpt, single, Asalaus
armlög, track on compilation album, Asalaus
2022 Krap, það eru jól, single, Asalaus
Skissur, EP, Asalaus
2021 Endurleysing, LP, Asalaus
and_vari, LP, Ateria
2020 Asaleysing, LP, Asalaus
Film scores
2026 Keeper of the Seeds, short film, dir. Darylina Powderface
2025 Avis de passage, feature film, dir. Ferdinand Ledoux
2024 WALLS, short film, dir. Ferdinand Ledoux
2024 Sound Asleep, short film, dir. Vadim Egoul
Grants and competitions
2025 Landsbankinn, scholarship
2025 UNM delegate
2025 STEF, recording grant
2024 UNM delegate
2024 3 month artist salary from Icelandic government for writing a piece
for Nordic Affect
2023 NeoQuartet commission
2022 STEF, recording grant
2021 STEF, notation grant
2018 Músíktilraunir, 1st place
Sound engineering
Manager and sound engineer at Sundlaugin Studio, 2022-2024
Live sound at Hátíðni festival 2023 and 2024
Recording engineer for Pussy Riot, Skúli Sverrisson, Ólöf Arnalds,
Einakróna, and others
Teaching
2025 TA of Recorded Sound class at Columbia University, taught by David
Adamcyk
2024-25 Music technology workshop series instructor at Columbia
University
2018 Læti (Girls Rock Camp Alliance) summer camp instructor
Organizing
2023 Hátíðni Festival, organizer of 2023 edition
2020-21 Ómkvörnin Festival, organizer of fall 2020, spring 2021 and fall
2021 editions
Other
Panel mediator at Nordic Music Days 2024 in Glasgow
Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss docuseries 2023,
appearance and interviewee
Asalaus 