Best remembered for his soundtrack to the hit movie 'The Theory of Everything',
Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson melded orchestral, electronic and organic
sounds into eerily graceful soundscapes and was highly regarded as an important,
post-classical, experimental composer.
Born in Reykjavik, he started out on the piano at the ag of eleven and by his
university days he was making dreamy music with Daisy Hill Puppy Farm and later
playing guitar in raucous, DIY rock outfits HAM and Unun. He also worked as a
studio musician and landed his first big break when he produced Marc...