He was principal cellist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra before moving to composing full time, so not surprisingly music for strings features strongly in his output. But this new disc from the Schola Cantorum Reykjavik, conductor Hordur Askelsson, on download only label Resonus Classics shows the growing importance of choral music in Hallgrimsson's output. Hallgrimsson trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying composition privately with Elizabeth Lutyens, Alan Bush and Peter Maxwell Davies.