Bjarni Biering Margeirsson ICELAND

BJARNI CREATES AURAL SOUNDSCAPES THAT ILLUMINATE THE IMPERFECTLY SUBLIME TERRAIN OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
His music tells human stories, where the only certainty is the passage of time, and our greatest truth is our connection to, and separation from, one another.

Classically trained in traditional modes of score and technique, Bjarni disrupts the clean classicism of his sound with economically dispersed beats and delicately layered piano. He has developed a holistic style as a composer that merges sight and sound through the lens of human emotion. Bjarni revels both in the quiet, reverent solitude of composition and scoring, and the collaborative process - bringing a practical, unfussy artistry to his work with filmmakers, visual artists and musicians.

After training as a pianist, Bjarni immersed himself in composition, drawn to the endless creative potential of modern recording technology and the freedom of improvisation. His obsession with sound and composition began early, during his childhood in Reykjavík where he would sit in concert halls or in front of his parents’ hi-fi laboriously studying the sounds produced. He would spend endless hours at his piano or computer attempting to recreate, construct and deconstruct those sounds, his own melodies and the works of classical and contemporary composers. This construction and deconstruction can be heard in the music of the internal worlds he creates now, gently building and felling the passage of time and our human experience.

He has scored feature films, documentaries, animations and shorts, as well as advertisements, and written production albums for EMI, Stereo Royal and No Sheet Music. Projects include "The Karman Line", a BAFTA nominated short film starring Olivia Colman and "Having you", starring Anna Friel and Andrew Buchan.
Recent work from Bjarni includes scoring a film for Lenovo, watch HERE. He recently  released his second album “DUST”, listen HERE. He also scored “Mind Mending”, a documentary about mental health, watch teaser HERE. 

​​Some other work from Bjarni includes making music for documentaries like “Den Anden Dirch” (2019) directed by Ole Junckert, “Seeds!” (2019) directed by Walker Lambert, “I Am Rebecca” (2018) directed by Eve Doherty and Kate McCaslin, “Travelling on Trash” (2018) directed by Dan Cullum, and tv series documentary “Guds bedste børn” (2019) directed by Bjarke Stender and Morten Eggert. Bjarni has also worked with music for short movies and series like “As Closely Linked as Flesh and Blood” (2015) directed by Gabriel Clermont, “The Daily Dweebs” (2017) directed by Hjalti Hjalmarsson, and “Glass Half” (2015) directed by Beorn Leonard.