Hildur Guðnadóttir

Born in Reykjavik (Iceland) on September 4, 1982, cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir was trained as a classical musician, before turning to experimental music through her collaborations with Throbbing Gristle, Pan Sonic, Animal Collective and Mùm. Under the pseudonym Lost in Hildurness, she recorded her debut album Mount A (2006) in Iceland and New York, influenced by electronic and contemporary music. The musician signed by the independent label Touch multiplied her collaborations and worked on her second album Without Sinking (2009), followed in 2012 by Leytôu Ljosinu and in 2014 by Saman. Since 2011, she has also been working for film and television. Composer of Denis Villeneuve's films Prisoners (2013), Sicario (2015) and Arrival (2016), she took part in The Revenant (2015) and signed the soundtracks of Mary Magdalene (2018), Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) and the blockbuster The Joker (2019), for which she won an Oscar and a Golden Globe, after scoring the series Trapped (2015-2018) with Johann Johannsson, Strong Island and The Departure (2017), Streets Spirits (2018) and Chernobyl (2019), which won a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and a BAFTA TV Award. In 2021, the composer teams up with Sam Slater for the music of the game Battlefield 2042, followed by the soundtracks of the films Tár (2022), Women Talking (2022), A Haunting in Venice (2023), Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) and Hedda (2025). In 2025, the minimalist solo album Where to From is released by Deutsche Grammophon.