Hildur Guðnadóttir staged her album Where to From for the first time, with strings, voices and light design, 20 years after her first solo record.
Hildur Guðnadóttir, who won an Academy Award for her Joker score, first staged her album Where to From at the Barbican Centre on Saturday 21 March 2026.
Born in Reykjavík in 1982 and raised in Hafnarfjörður, she began playing cello at five. She studied composition and new media at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Berlin University of the Arts.
Her Joker score also won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, and she was the first solo female composer to win all three. She won an Emmy and a Grammy for the HBO series Chernobyl, and scored Tár.
The concert marked 20 years since Mount A, her first solo record, released in 2006. Having stepped back from touring, she played with an ensemble of friends on strings and voices, under light design by Theresa Baumgartner.
In the Barbican Hall it ran for about 90 minutes without an interval, as part of the Barbican’s Ice and Fire 2026 series. The singers Nina Guo and Peyee Chen joined her, with viola, viola da gamba and two cellos.