If there were a vacancy for the missing link between Philip Glass and Sigur Rós, 21-year-old Ólafur Arnalds would at least be back for a second interview. His child-like, neo-classical piano melodies, ...
Neo-classical composer Ólafur Arnalds is heading to Los Angeles for a brief April residency at the Bootleg Theater. The shows promise to be an intimate scaled-down version of the recent U.S. tour show ...
This performance at New York City's (Le) Poisson Rouge re-imagines the Icelandic musician's magnificent work with a small orchestra: 28 musicians... Olafur Arnalds, Live In Concert How can music be ...
It's as if the pianos were haunted. Somewhere about midway through this Tiny Desk, as Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds performed on his electronic keyboard, two upright pianos were playing lilting ...
Amid a global pandemic that has put the world to a halt, Islandic composer Olafur Arnalds arrives with some kind of peace, his most ravishing work to date. Arnalds has always been a thoughtful artist ...
Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds has been described as a contemporary composer and synthesist, but that doesn't adequately reflect the alchemy of modern and traditional that he is able to blend on ...