Sumartónleikar Listasafns Sigurjóns Ólafssonar
Fréttatilkynning um tónleika (English below) Ábyrgðarmaður: Geirfinnur Jónsson Listasafni Sigurjóns Ólafssonar Sími 553 2906 netfang:LSO@LSO.IS Tónleikasíða safnins (ísl) (ens) er uppfærð vikulega og t.d. eru settar krækjur í efnisskrár tónleikanna þegar þær eru tilbúnar. |
Sumartónleikabæklingur 2016 |
Listasafn Sigurjóns þriðjudagskvöld 19. júlí 2016 kl. 20:30 Miðasala við innganginn Aðgangseyrir kr. 2500 Tekið er við greiðslukortum Hvar er safnið? |
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Smellið á smámyndina til að
fá prenthæfa ljósmynd. Hér má ná í pdf útgáfu af efnisskrá tónleikanna. Nánari upplýsingar um tónleikana veitir: Ingibjörg Azima Guðlaugsdóttir í síma 615 1596 Nánari upplýsingar um tónleikaröðina í heild veitir: Hlíf Sigurjónsdóttir í síma 863 6805. |
Á dimmu haustkvöldi geng ég um götur Stokkhólms og lag tekur að hljóma við orð í huga mínum. Ég átta mig á að orðin eru úr Vorljóði á ýli eftir ömmu mína. Ljóðið lýsir þrá eftir vori á kaldasta og dimmasta tíma ársins á Íslandi og ég finn að hugblær ljóðsins rímar við mína eigin heimþrá. Lagið hef ég aldrei heyrt áður, en það er engu líkara en ljóðið syngi það sjálft jafnóðum og orðin rifjast upp.
Áður en ég vissi af voru fleiri ljóð farin að syngja fyrir mig ný lög og úr varð lagaflokkurinn Vorljóð á ýli.Ingibjörg Azima Guðlaugsdóttir
Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum Tuesday evening, July 19th, 2016 at 8:30 pm Admission ISK 2500 - at the entrance Major credit cards accepted Where is the Museum? |
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program For further information on this concert: Ingibjörg Azima Guðlaugsdóttir, tel 615 1596 For further information on the concert series: Hlíf Sigurjónsdóttir, tel. 863 6805 |
On a dark autumn night I walk the streets of Stockholm and a melody begins to sound to some words in my mind. I realize that these are the words to Spring Poem in Winter, written by my grandmother. The poem describes the longing for spring during the coldest and darkest season in Iceland, and I feel that the poem's spirit reverberates my own homesickness. I have never heard the melody before, but it is as though the poem sings itself as soon as I remember the words.
Before I knew, more poems were singing new melodies to me and thus, the songcycle Spring Poem in Winter was created.Ingibjörg Azima Guðlaugsdóttir
The Icelandic poet and writer Jakobína Sigurðardóttir
(1918 − 1994) was born and grew up in Hornstrandir, North West Iceland,
one of the most isolated places of the country. In 1935, she moved to Reykjavík
in search of education, but there were few possibilities for girls with meagre financial
means. In 1949 she moved, with her husband Þorgrímur Starri, to his family
farm at Garður in Mývatnssveit, where they ran the farm and raised their
four children. Jakobína wrote poems as well as novels, short stories, a fairy tale and an autobiography. In her works the voice of the social realist is clear and strong, and her dislike of foreign military occupation of Iceland was expressed with satire. Jakobína Sigurðardóttir was nominated three times for the Northern Council Price of Literature and in her later years she was the recipient of Honorary Artist's Salary of the Icelandic government.
More (in Icelandic):
https://jakobinasigurdardottir.wordpress.com
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Ingibjörg Azima Guðlaugsdóttir studied in Sweden,
the trombone at the Gothenburg Academy of Music, and choral conducting
at the Uppsala University. Since then, she has worked both in Sweden and
in Iceland as a trombone player, director of choirs and brass-bands, and
as a teacher and composer.
Ingibjörg Azima's compositions are primarily inspired by Icelandic poetry so they often give the listener an image of folklore. She has composed music to many poems by Icelandic poets and her music has been performed in many concerts and festivals in Iceland and in Sweden. The CD Spring Poem in Winter was released last year, with songs that she wrote in 2006 − 14 to poems by her grandmother, Jakobína Sigurðardóttir from Garður in Mývatnssveit. |
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After finishing her musical studies in Iceland, soprano Margrét
Hrafnsdóttir continued at the State University of Music and
the Performing Arts Stuttgart, with professors Michiko Takanshi, Robert Hiller
and Franzisco Araiza. She has also attended master classes in Lied with Christoph
Pregardien, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elly Ameling and Giacomo Aragall.
Margrét's repertoire ranges from Icelandic folk songs to Bach oratorios and operatic works by Wagner and Verdi. She has appeared onstage in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark and Iceland, as a soloist or with choirs and orchestras. In cooperation with the ensemble Aurora Borealis, she recently released the highly acclaimed CD Whole-Hearted with Icelandic folk songs. |
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Tenor Gissur Páll Gissurarson studied singing at the Conservatorio di Bologna in Italy and took private lessons with tenor Kristján Jóhannsson. He has performed in numerous opera houses and concert halls in Iceland, France, Italy, Japan and Germany. In Iceland he appears frequently in concerts with choirs, and performs oratorios by Bach, Handel, Mozart and Verdi. He has sung several leading roles at the Icelandic Opera, such as Nemorino in L'elisir d'Amore, Rodolfo in La Bohème and Count Almaviva in the Barber of Seville. In his second album, Aria, released in 2014, he sings famous Italian arias with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. | |
Grímur Helgason studied the clarinet at the
Reykjavík College of Music with Sigurður Snorrason and the Iceland
Academy of the Arts with Einar Jóhannesson. He furthered his studies at the
Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Hans Colbers from where he earned his M. Mus.
degree in 2011.
Grímur is a member of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and also performs and records with various music groups such as Ísafold ensemble, Caput ensemble, Kúbus chamber ensemble and the Secret Swing Society. He is one of the organizers of Bergmál (Echo) Music Festival in Dalvík, North Iceland. |
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Born in Estonia Ave Kara Sillaots continued her accordion studies
at the Lithuanian Academy of Music from which she graduated in 1996, with a
Master's degree. In 2010 she received a degree in Liturgical Organ playing from
the National Church School of Music in Reykjavík.
Ave has taught the accordion in Estonia, Lithuania, Switzerland and Iceland and played and traveled with a variety of groups to different countries in central Europe and Scandinavia. Now she lives in Iceland and teaches the accordion at the music schools of Fjallabyggð and Dalvík. In addition, she is the organist and a choir master at the Ólafsfjörður parish church. |
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Born in England, Darri Mikaelsson (Darren Stonham) studied the
Bassoon at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. After finishing his
studies he moved to Iceland. Currently he works as a peripatetic music teacher
and performer in Reykjavík.
He frequently plays with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of North Iceland and he is the bassoon player of the Reykjavík Wind Quintet. He has appeared as a soloist, or with ensembles and orchestras in Iceland, as well as in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden and England. |
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Gunnhildur Halla Guðmundsdóttir was born in Iceland where
she took her first steps in playing the cello. As a teenager she moved to France to
further her cello studies. Her teachers include Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, Torleif
Thedeen, William Pleeth and Uzi Wiesel.
For 26 years her music and her life took place in countries like France, Denmark, Israel and Sweden, but she returned to Iceland in 2011 where she now teaches and performs. She has played in various orchestras and ensembles both in Iceland and abroad and specializes in contemporary music for solo cello. |
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Gunnlaugur Torfi Stefánsson
studied the double bass at the Akureyri Music School and the Reykjavík College
of Music. He continued his studies at the Royal Academies of Antwerpen and Brussels.
After finishing his studies in 1999, Gunnlaugur returned to Iceland and has been active
in the music scene ever since.
For a while Gunnlaugur lived in Akureyri where he was a member of the North-Iceland Symphony Orchestra and taught the double bass at the Akureyri Music School. After moving to Reykjavík, he has been a freelance player with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Icelandic Opera Orchestra, Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra, Caput Ensemble and the tango group L'amour Fou. Gunnlaugur has also played the baroque-double bass in the Skálholt Bach Consort. |