It’s a bit of a conundrum. The rugged, volcanic island of Iceland, isolated in the North Atlantic, has a tiny population of not even 400,000 – smaller than many British cities – that’s spread out across a land mass five times the size of Wales. And yet it produces an astonishing richness of music, right across genres: just think of the fine musicians of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, or classical pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, or composers Anna Þorvaldsdóttir or Hildur Guðnadóttir; or Björk, Sigur Rós and many other pop pioneers; or figures like Ólafur Arnalds or Valgeir Sigurðsson who straddle musical worlds.
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