Tara Nome DoyleTara Nome Doyle is a singer-songwriter with Norwegian-Irish roots based in Berlin. TND’s middle name, Nome, is pronounced »Noo-Meh« in Norwegian and »No-me« in English.
Her first single »Down with You« was released in 2018 and has since been streamed over 6 million times. In 2020, TND put out her conceptual debut album »Alchemy«, co-produced by TND and David Specht (Isolation Berlin), which was celebrated by the German press (»… like Kate Bush singing songs by Nick Cave at Berghain«, SPIEGEL).
Her sophomore record »Værmin« (2022, BMG Recordings), produced by Grammy-award winning musician and engineer Simon Goff, garnered international praise from outlets like FAZ (»..Germany has a new star«), Wonderland Magazine, CLASH, SPIEGEL, Vogue Japan, NRK, Irish Times and Hot Press.
Tara Nome Doyle's latest, self-produced EP »Agape« (2024) marked her return to the music scene after a two-year hiatus.
»Agape« is a profoundly intimate collection of songs documenting TND's emotional journey through grief, commemorating the passing of a loved one.
Her third studio album »Ekko« was released by the UK-based indie label FatCat Records on April 11th 2025. »Ekko« promises to be a journey that ventures outward into the unknown and inward to the depths of the self. Along the way, it explores pain, farewells, new beginnings, and ultimately, acceptance. Spanning just 30 minutes, the album exudes a remarkable clarity—not just in its brevity, but in its emotional depth.
TND likes to collaborate: In July 2021 the EP »The Moments We Keep«, which she co-wrote and co-produced with the Italian pianist Federico Albanese, came out on Decca’s/Universal’s imprint Mercury KX. In late 2020 TND released recordings with Malakoff Kowalski (»Bad Dreams«) and 1k Flowers (»Clemency«). TND has also collaborated with Max Rieger (Die Nerven; producer of e.g. Caspar and Drangsal) – on »Neon Woods« (first album) and »Caterpillar« (second album).
Her album »Værmin« saw re-works from the likes of Craig Armstrong (Romeo & Juliet, Love Actually), Meredi & Lisa Morgenstern and together with arranger and composer Viktor Orri Árnason (Ólafur Arnalds, Björk) and the string ensemble Echo Collective (Johann Johannsson, Erasure) TND created string versions of several »Værmin« tracks.
TND is a member of Kat Frankie's »B O D I E S« choir and has recently formed a new band project with Erol Sarp (Grandbrothers).
In October ’21 the Netflix-USA production »Munich« by director Christian Schwochow, starring Jeremy Irons, premiered at the London Film Festival. In the film, which also saw a theatrical release in North America, the UK, Germany and Spain in January ’22, TND can be seen performing an original song she co-wrote with Isobel Waller-Bridge (»Fleabag«, »Emma«) specifically for the scene, singing in German for the first time. Another collaboration with Waller-Bridge (this time in Norwegian) is featured in the series »Three Women« (2024, Starz), based on Lisa Taddeo’s bestselling book. TND’S »Too Lost To Be Found«, co-written with Federico Albanese, was picked up by HBO for their series »Generation« and premiered in July ’21.
A commissioned choir piece, as well as a cover version of »Can’t help falling in love« and a remix of her song »Caterpillar« can be heard in Sonja Heiss’ cinema release »Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war« (2023).
https://taranomedoyle.com/about
Echo CollectiveEcho Collective are a Brussels-based orchestral ensemble, founded by Neil Leiter and Margaret Hermant, working in the post-classical world. Echo Collective make interpretations of genres as diverse as alt.rock, synth-pop and black metal, and also create their own original music.
The ensemble was created when Margaret Hermant and Neil Leiter collaborated with Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran's A Winged Victory For The Sullen. The American-born Leiter was introduced to Wiltzie by their mutual friend, the composer and musician Caroline Shaw.
Echo Collective Plays Amnesiac (2018) is a re-working of the Radiohead album Amnesiac.
They collaborated with Erasure to create a classical reworking of album World Be Gone, entitled World Beyond and recorded in Brussels in November 2017, featuring seven of there performers including Margaret Hermant on Violin and Harp, Neil Leiter on Viola, Thomas Engelin on Cello, Jaroslaw Mroz on Double Bass, Gart de Cart on piano and Antoine Dandoy on Vibraphone and Glockenspiel.
12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann (2019) is an album of reworked music by Jóhann Jóhannsson, in line with Jóhannsson's wishes. The suite is inspired by the work of the German abstract painter Thilo Heinzmann.
The Sea Within (2020) is an album of Echo Collective's original music.
Albums
Echo Collective Plays Amnesiac (7K!, 2018)
12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann (Deustche Grammophon, 2019) – music by Jóhann Jóhannsson
The Sea Within (7K!, 2020)
LUNA (with Pascal Schumacher) (Neue Meister, 2022)
Phaethon, Becalmed (with Ramon Lormans) (Neue Meister, 2024) – music by Ben J. Connolly
Mirror Image (naïve, 2024)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_Collective
Viktor Orri ÁrnasonViktor Orri Árnason is an Icelandic composer, conductor and producer. His particular focus on colliding the worlds of classical composition and studio artistry – along with his unique approach to the viola and violin – has established him as an exceptional voice in today’s musical landscape, and made him a sought-after collaborator for established musicians of many genres.
Viktor studied violin and viola at the Icelandic University of the Arts (Listaháskóli Íslands) and composition and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin.
He began his musical career playing bass as part of Búdrýgindi, a band he formed with his primary school friends in 1998. They won the Icelandic Music Awards in 2002, the youngest band ever to do so.
Since 2007, Viktor has been an active member of Hjaltalín as a violinist and songwriter. Their releases have been praised by both national and international press and won numerous prizes at the Icelandic Music Awards.
In 2008, Viktor co-founded the Skark string ensemble with focus on contemporary classical compositions, researching the borders of music, art, and science, and ways of combining these in a musical performance with emphasis on audience experience. Skark has collaborated with various artists and curators, including Ólafur Eliasson, Nicolas Dusollier, Anna Gudmundsdottir, Nadim Samman, and Carson Chan.
Viktor’s passion for new textures and sounds led to his collaboration with Ólafur Arnalds on the creation of two of Spitfire Audio’s bestselling sample libraries, Evolutions and Chamber Evolutions.
Viktor’s musical interest spans from modern classical to alternative pop/rock. This versatility, in tandem with his singular approach to arrangement, orchestration, instrumentation, conducting, and recording has seen him collaborate with a diverse range of established musicians over the years. He has played the strings, conducted, and created arrangements for Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Hauschka, Ólafur Arnalds, Of Monsters and Men, Robot Koch, and Björk among many others. His contributions can be heard on multiple movies and TV series, including the BAFTA-winning series Broadchurch and multi-award-winning movie Joker.
VAST, his collaborative debut, created with Yair Elazar Glotman (a.k.a. KETEV) and released by Bedroom Community, captures one evening of unconventional violin, viola, and double bass improvisations.
Eilífur, his solo debut record, is a celebration of life as we know it, and an ode to the things that make it worth living. It was released on June 18th 2021 via the award-winning label PENTATONE.
Myrkvi, his second LP, is an exploration of the shadow self, an electronic opus based on a dance piece he composed in 2014. It was released through his own imprint, Eilífur, on March 3rd 2023.
Poems, his collaborative DG debut album with soprano and visual artist Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir, draw on the pair’s shared cultural heritage, setting poems by Icelandic poets past and present. It was released on November 10th, 2023. It was followed up by Piano Poems, made of reinterpretations of that debut but for solo piano, released on April 12th 2024.
Viktor wrote a new piece for a production called RITUAL, which was premiered on October 19th 2024 as part of the Artic Circle Conference. It was performed by the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, various choirs, soloists including Yo-Yo Ma, and directed and produced by Marvaða.
Reverie – a quartet piece Viktor originally wrote in 2005 – was revisited in 2024 and released via Deutsche Grammophon in March 21st 2025.
Viktor is since fall 2021 the conductor and artistic director for the Reykjavík Orkestra (RO), located at Harpa Hall, and which specialises in ensemble recordings for film, TV, games, media and music of various genres.
https://www.viktorarnason.com/about
