BIOGRAPHY

Ragga Gísla (Ragnhildur Gísladóttir) completed an MA degree in composition from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in the spring of 2013. RG has been an active musician for a number of years. She has also composed music for films, theater and dance. Ragga has participated in Dark Music Days, Nordic Music Days, Reykjavik Art Festival and Reykjavik Dance Festival. 

Composition was part of Ragga’s MA project which is about they way in which the hearing impaired sense music. Their sound world inspired the composition and in the work “Underseas” she uses so-called studs to interpret this tonal sensation in silence. Pursuant to that composition Ragga composed Chamber Music for Studs in 2015. Parallel to that composition she composed the work Dandelion Symphony where the musical instruments are also untraditional, i.e. the stems of dandelions.