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Daníel Bjarnason
Daníel Bjarnason
Icelandic composer
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Jan Lisiecki
Jan Lisiecki
Canadian pianist
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Murray Perahia
Murray Perahia
American pianist and conductor
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Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang
Chinese pianist
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Jóhann Jóhannsson
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Icelandic musician and composer
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Hatari
Hatari
Icelandic band and performance art group
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Anne Sofie von Otter
Anne Sofie von Otter
Swedish mezzo-soprano
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass
American composer and pianist
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Lisa Batiashvili
Lisa Batiashvili
Georgian musician
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Skálmöld
Skálmöld
Icelandic band
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Andrei Gavrilov
Andrei Gavrilov
Russian musician
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Christian Ferras
Christian Ferras
French musician
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Atli Heimir Sveinsson
Atli Heimir Sveinsson
Icelandic composer
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Alice Sara Ott
Alice Sara Ott
German classical pianist
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Emerson String Quartet
Emerson String Quartet
string quartet
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Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn
musician
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Quarashi
Quarashi
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GDRN
GDRN
Icelandic singer
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John Eliot Gardiner
John Eliot Gardiner
English conductor
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Unsuk Chin
Unsuk Chin
South Korean composer
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor
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Garðar Thór Cortes
Garðar Thór Cortes
Icelandic tenor
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Esther Yoo
Esther Yoo
violinist
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Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt
Canadian classical pianist
Víkingur Ólafsson
Icelandic pianist

Víkingur Ólafsson

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Víkingur Ólafsson (born 14 February 1984) is an Icelandic pianist.

He has performed with leading orchestras in Europe and America, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and with such conductors as Thomas Adès, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Santtu-Matias Rouvali. He has won numerous awards, including Album of the Year at the 2019 BBC Music Magazine Awards for Johann Sebastian Bach.

Víkingur's album Philip Glass Piano Works saw him named "Iceland's Glenn Gould" by the New York Times, and a "breathtakingly brilliant pianist" by Gramophone; Le Monde heralded his "volcanic temperament, great virtuosity, taste for challenges".