Stefan Sand

A Danish composer and conductor based in Reykjavík. He was born in Copenhagen in 1995 and in 2017 took his piano and piano teaching diploma at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Jens Elvekjær and Søren Rastogi. He then moved to Iceland and took a master's degree in new audiences and innovative practices at the Iceland University of the Arts in 2021 and a master's degree in composition at the same school in 2023, where his teachers were Úlfar Ingi Haraldsson, Hróðmar Ingi Sigurbjörnsson and Tryggvi M. Baldvinsson. Alongside his studies he took orchestral conducting with Frederik Støvring Olsen and Gunnsteinn Ólafsson and choral conducting with Magnús Ragnarsson. Stefan works as a composer and choral conductor and directs the choirs Hljómeyki, the Motet Choir of Hallgrímskirkja and the women's choir Vox Feminae. His larger conducting projects have included Beethoven's opera Fidelio, Mozart's The Magic Flute and Beethoven's Mass in C. His project Look at the Music, with Thomas Hammel and Haukur Darri Hauksson, brings together hearing and deaf audiences and uses sign language as material for composition, and in 2024 he was nominated for a Gríma award for innovation of the year for his work in Iceland's cultural life. He teaches the piano at the music schools in Árbær and Kópavogur.