{"id":2,"date":"2007-09-24T13:33:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T20:33:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-09-15T06:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:04:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sigur\u00f0ur S\u00e6varsson (b. 1963) studied singing at the Keflav\u00edk School of Music, in Iceland, with \u00c1rni Sighvatsson before moving to the New Music School in Reykjav\u00edk, where his teachers were Sigur\u00f0ur Demetz and Alina Dubik. In 1994, Sigur\u00f0ur commenced studies in singing and composition at Boston University in the USA, where his teachers included William Sharp, Charles Fussel, Sam Headrick and Martin Amlin. He gained his Masters Degree in both subjects in the Spring of 1997.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2L8A8247-1000x1500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2L8A8247-1000x1500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2L8A8247-460x690.jpg 460w, https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2L8A8247-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2L8A8247-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2L8A8247-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2L8A8247-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Sigur\u00f0ur S\u00e6varsson (b. 1963) studied singing at the Keflav\u00edk School of Music, in Iceland, with \u00c1rni Sighvatsson before moving to the New Music School in Reykjav\u00edk, where his teachers were Sigur\u00f0ur Demetz and Alina Dubik. In 1994, Sigur\u00f0ur commenced studies in singing and composition at Boston University in the USA, where his teachers included &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/?page_id=2\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biography&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1308,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigurdursaevarsson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}