Stuðlagil (2019)
Instrumentation: clarinet, trumpet, piano
Stuðlagil was written in June 2019, for the Time of Music Festival in Viitasaari, Finland, and premiered by Uusinta Ensemble members Angel Molinos (cl), Inka Pärssinen (tpt) & Fanny Söderström (pno). The piece depicts a journey through Stuðlagil, a canyon of basalt columns in the Jökla glacial river in East Iceland. For centuries most of the canyon was hidden below the water level of the forceful river. But after the building of the controversial hydropower plant, Kárahnjúkarvirkjun, the water level dropped drastically, thus revealing the spectacular canyon.