Haukur Tómasson was awarded the 2004 Nordic Council Music Prize, the greatest honor awarded to a Nordic composer. This award, which Tómasson received for his chamber opera Gundrun's 4th Song, firmly established his stature as one of Scandinavia΄s most outstanding composers.
The music of Haukur Tómasson is vibrant and scintillating, characterized by intense rhythmic activity, bright, colorful timbres, and a keen ear for novel and effective instrumental combinations. Tómasson΄s music bustles with energy and is often quite complex, although the rapidly moving surface rhythm occasionally comes to a halt, giving way to slowly moving sonorities of imposing power and austere beauty. Besides a large body of chamber music, Tómasson's work includes eight orchestral pieces, six concertos and the opera Gudruns 4th Song. His music is released on BIS and various Icelandic labels.
Works of Haukur Tómasson that are being published by Editions Musica Ferrum:
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- Piano
250 piano pieces for Beethoven vol. 1
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- The first volume of the "250 piano pieces for Beethoven" project, initiated and organised by Susanne Kessel, in Bonn.
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