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The Icelandic conductor and cellist Hjörtur Páll Eggertsson was five years old when he started playing the cello. He would later study at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Morten Zeuthen and Toke Møldrup. He has experience both as a chamber musician and orchestral musician, having played in various festivals in Europe, as well as having performed as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. He was a student of the Malko Academy for Young Conductors from 2020-2022. As a conductor, he has participated in masterclasses with Herbert Blomstedt, Johannes Schlaefli, Fabio Luisi and Jorma Panula and worked with various orchestras, including the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and Copenhagen Phil. From 2023-2025, he studied in the conducting class of Ed Spanjaard at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Since August 2025 he has been a student of Giordano Bellincampi in the Advanced Postgraduate Programme for conducting at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Alongside his studies, he has been a participant of Dirigentløftet Danmark and Nordisk Dirigentforum.

In 2024 he had his conducting debut with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and has been invited back regularly since. He has also had frequent engagements as an assistant, most recently assisting Eva Ollikainen and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms.