Ábyrgðarmaður:
Birgitta Spur
Listasafni Sigurjóns Ólafssonar
Sími
553 2906 netfang:LSO@LSO.IS
Sunnudagstónleikar í Listasafni Sigurjóns
„Söngvar kvölds og
morgna“
Tónleikasíðan er uppfærð vikulega og
t.d. eru settar krækjur í efnisskrár tónleikanna þegar þær eru tilbúnar.
Landsvirkjun, Glitnir og Tónlistarsjóður styrkja Sumartónleika í Listasafni
Sigurjóns.
Listasafn Sigurjóns sunnudagskvöld 29. júlí 2007 kl. 20:30 Miðasala við innganginn, hægt er að panta miða í safninu (553 2906) Aðgangseyrir kr. 1500 Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum, Reykjavík. Sunday evening, July, 29th 2007 at 20:30 Admission ISK 1500 - at the entrance. How to get there |
Þóra, Björn og Anna Áslaug |
Smellið á myndina til að fá prenthæfa mynd
Nánari upplýsingar um tónleikana
veita
Þóra Einarsdóttir í síma 897 4052 Björn Jónsson í síma 898 1994 og Anna Áslaug í síma 864 9644 |
Sunday concert at Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum Reykjavík
Songs of Evenings and Mornings
Þóra Einarsdóttir sopano, Björn Jónsson tenor and Anna Áslaug Ragnarsdóttir piano, perform works by Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss and Edward Grieg.
Sunday July 29th at 20:30.
Admission 1500 ISK
Þóra Einarsdóttir studied at the Reykjavík School of Singing
with Ólöf Kolbrún Harðardóttir and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
with Professor Laura Sarti. Her international debut was at age 23 with the
Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the role of Mirror in The Second Mrs.
Kong by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, but her national opera debut was five years
earlier in Rigoletto with the Icelandic Opera. She has performed with the
English National Opera, the Opera North in Leeds, the Malmö Opera and the Operas
in Lausanne, Mannheim, Nürnberg, Darmstadt and Wiesbaden. Einarsdóttir’s vast
variety of roles include operas from Rameau to Birtwistle with special emphasis
on Mozart operas. Her most recent roles are Pamina in The Magic
Flute, Ilia in Idomeneo by Mozart and Cleopatra in
Händel’s Giulio Cesare.
Einarsdóttir is active as a concert soloist and performer of church music. She
has given recitals in Iceland and Scandinavia and also in Estonia, Germany,
Belgium, France, Switzerland, England and the USA.
Björn Jónsson
studied at the Reykjavík School of Singing with Ólöf Kolbrún Harðardóttir and
graduated from the Trinity College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama in London. He furthered his studies with Franco Corelli and Katia
Ricciarelli in Italy. Jónsson made his debut in the role of Normanno in
Lucia di Lammermoor at the age of 25. Since then, he has appeared with
the Icelandic Opera, the Malmö Opera and the summer festivals in Desenzano in
Italy and Zwingenberg in Germany.
Jónsson also performs concert repertoire,
recently he gave a concert in Palau de Musica in Barcelona, and sings sacred
music, e.g. with the Langholtskirkja Church Choir and The Oslo Bach
Choir.
Presently Björn lives in
Reykjavík and Wiesbaden, where he is conducting research on management and
leadership in opera houses. He has published articles on the subject in
Icelandic newspapers.
Anna Áslaug Ragnarsdóttir began her
studies at the Music School in Ísafjörður, her home town in Iceland, and later
moved on to the Reykjavík College of Music. After finishing her diploma in
Iceland she furthered her studies in the UK, Italy and Germany. Ragnarsdóttir
has performed in various countries in Europe and America. In Iceland alone she
has appeared as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra several times and
played numerous recitals all around the country. She has recorded for the
Icelandic National Broadcasting Service and the Iceland Music Information
Centre, and has released a CD where she performs works by Icelandic composers.
She lives in Munich and Reykjavík.