Hildur Guðnadóttir

Hildur Guðnadóttir is an Icelandic cellist, singer and composer. She studied at the Reykjavík Academy of Music and later composition and new media at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Berlin University of the Arts. She has written music for the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, the Icelandic National Theater, Tate Modern, the British Film Institute and the Royal Swedish National Opera, among others. Her music for the HBO series “Chernobyl” was awarded an Emmy and a Grammy, among others. She has also composed soundtracks for films such as “A Haunting in Venice” (2023), “TÁR” (2022) and “Joker” (2019), for which she was awarded an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA, among others. In addition to solo albums, she can be heard as a musician on avant-garde music albums by Hauschka, Sunn O))) and The Knife, among many others. Most recently Guðnadóttir presented her live project “Osmium” (2024).