| Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir already has a broad experience with new music and has premiered around 30 pieces especially written for her. She has worked with Icelandic composers, as well as Helmut Lachenmann, Christian Wolff, Morton Subotnick, Evan Ziporyn and Greg Davis. Tinna premiered five Icelandic piano pieces in a concert at the Dark Music Days Festival in Iceland in 2005 and performed the program furthermore at the Nordischer Klang festival in Germany, in Berlin, Beijing, at the Bergen International Festival 2006 in the series Young Talents at the Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen and the GL Strand Museum in Copenhagen 2007. Tinna again gave a solo recital at the Reykjavík Arts Festival in 2007 where she premiered five Icelandic pieces. Some other performances include the Bang on a Can Marathon in San Francisco, solo performances at the Messiaen Festival in Stavanger, Norway, in Portugal, Austria, Boston and Paris. Tinna studied in Hannover and Münster in Germany before taking on further studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with Stephen Drury, where she completed her Graduate Diploma. She received a Fulbright scholarship and the Thor Thors grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation and has three times received an Artist Stipend from the Icelandic State. Tinna has participated in several courses, among them interpretation of 20th century music and baroque music, with pianists such as Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Peter Hill, Håkon Austbø and Pierre Réach. Tinna is the pianist of the salon band L'amour fou and the new music group Njúton. Her first solo CD Granit Games with Icelandic piano music was released in 2007 with Bad Taste Records. |
Stefán Arason
