Orchestral Works

Works for Chamber and Ensemble

Glætur (2001)

for Chamber Ensemble (Clarinet in Bb, Trumpet in C, Percussion, Piano, Violin and Violoncello).

Commissioned by Michio Nakajima, Mirkk Art Forum for ÝMIR Ensemble. First performance by Art Respirant at the ISCM 2001 festival in Yokohama, Japan.
9:30-10 minutes.

String Quartet One (2015)

Funded by the Composers Fund of the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service.

Sextet (2000)

Dedicated to Native Americans.

For Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Violin, Cello and Double Bass.
Commissioned by the CAPUT Ensemble for their North-American tour in commemoration of Leif Ericsson’s discovery of Vinland or North America 1000 years ago.

Metal Concerto (1996)

for three percussionists and computer sound.

Commissioned by the Center of Computer Music & Music Technology, Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo.
Premiered at the Kunitachi College Arts Center at a Concert of Hauksson’s music, July 9, 1996.

Exhalatio (1996)

for saxophone quartet.

Commission from the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet by NOMUS.
Premiered at the Stockholm New Music Festival, March 25, 1996.

Psychomachia, Oratorio (1995)

for soprano, choir and string ensemble.

Commission from the Church Music Festival at Skálholt, Iceland, July, 1995.

Ever-changing Waves (1995)

for string quartet, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and two percussion.

Commission from the Nordisk Musikfest 1995, New Music Ensemble at the State College of Music in Gothenburg through the organization Musik i Väst (Western Sweden Music).

Bells of Earth I (1994)

f. carillon, percussion and computer sound.

Commission from the Center of Computer Music & Music Technology, Kunitachi College of Music by the Composers Fund of the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service.

Myndun (1993)

f. three clarinets.

Commission from the Chalumeau Trio by the Composers Fund of the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service.

Are We? (1980)

for two trumpets, two trombones, two percussion and computer sound.

The computer sounds were realized at IRCAM, Paris. Commissioned for IRCAM by Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Sonata (1980)

computer sound work.

Realized at the EMS Studios, Stockholm.

a (1976)

for three cellos and one contrabass.

MOSAIC (1975)

for woodwind quintet and string quartet.

Commissioned for Ny Musikk, Oslo, Norway by NOMUS (the Committee for Nordic Musical Cooperation).

Thorsteinn Hauksson, Composer

Thorsteinn Hauksson