Curriculum Vitae

Hugi Gudmundsson (10.06.1977)

Hugi Gudmundsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1977. He studied composition at Reykjavik College of Music with Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson and Dr. Úlfar Ingi Haraldsson as teachers. In 2001 he moved to Denmark for further composition studies with Prof. Bent Sorensen, Hans Abrahamsen and Niels Rosing-Schow at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He finished his Masters degree spring 2005. He finished his second Masters degree (electronic music, Institute of Sonology, Netherlands) spring 2007.

Gudmundsson has written pieces ranging from solo pieces to orchestra works and his pieces have been performed widely, e.g. in USA, Canada, UK, Japan, France, Spain, Germany and all the scandinavian countries. He has worked with internationally renowned artists such as the Raschér Saxophone Quartet, Caput Ensemble, Athelas Ensemble, Cantori New York and Prism Saxophone Quartet. Furthermore he is writing music for a new video game named Dust 514 by ccpgames.com. The game will be released in 2012 in collaboration with Sony.

Hugi Gudmundsson has received many awards and recognitions for his work in his home country, Iceland. In march 2008 Hugi Gudmundsson was awarded the Icelandic Music Awards for APOCRYPHA (baroque orchestra and electronics). With a total of four nominations to his name he is also the youngest composer ever nominated for the Icelandic Music Awards. Furthermore he was in 2008 nominated for the prestigious DV (Icelandic newspaper) Cultural Awards for achivements in the field of music. Among international recognitions are recommendations in both catagories at the International Rostrum of Composers (IRC 2006) in Paris for Eq. IV: Windbells which was written for the World Expo 2005 in Japan. In 2010 his piece Händelusive received the same honorary recommendation at the 2010 Rostrum in Lisbon.

Hugi Gudmundsson lives in Copenhagen where he works as a full-time composer