Hildur Guðnadóttir

Icelandic cellist, composer and singer, born September 4, 1982 in Reykjavik.
A prolific indie artist, she is known for her numerous live and studio collaborations with Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, múm, Ben Frost, Ilpo Väisänen's Angel (opens in a new tab), Jóhann Jóhannsson, Animal Collective, Sunn O))), Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (opens in a new tab), Hauschka, the duo of BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa, The Knife, and many others.
In 2007, Hildur released her debut solo album, Mount A under the Lost in Hildurness alias. She worked on it alone, playing and recording cello, viola, piano, zither, vibraphone and gamelan. A follow-up Without Sinking was released in 2009 by British label Touch, as well as her next works Leyfðu Ljósinu (a concert album capturing live performance without any editing or post-production) and her most recent album Saman, which melts the sounds of her voice and cello together to form a single instrument.
Guðnadóttir is also a vocal performer, and once she arranged a choir for Throbbing Gristle performances in Austria and UK. As a composer, she wrote a score for the play Sumardagur performed at Iceland's National Theatre, as well as the Danish film Kapringen.