Magnús Ragnarsson

Organist at Langholtskirkja since 2017 and the artistic director of all its music. He conducts the church choir, thirty-two trained musicians. He studied at Tónlistarskólinn í Reykjavík, Tónskóli þjóðkirkjunnar and the music academy in Gothenburg, and took postgraduate work in choral conducting with Stefan Parkman at Uppsala University. He has conducted Söngsveitin Fílharmónía since January 2006, Hljómeyki from 2006 to 2012 and Melodia, the chamber choir of Áskirkja, from 2007 to 2017, and he is chorus master of the Icelandic Opera. He teaches choral conducting at Tónskóli þjóðkirkjunnar and the Iceland University of the Arts. He has conducted ballets and chamber operas and the Lutosławski Philharmonic in Poland, and he has won prizes with his choirs in Tours, Llangollen and Arezzo and at the Béla Bartók choral competition in Hungary, where he took a special prize for the performance of a contemporary work. In 2015 he was nominated for an Icelandic Music Award for Brahms's German Requiem, and the year after, Melodia's record under him was nominated as album of the year.