Tuesday June 21st
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Sesselja Kristjánsdóttir mezzosoprano with
pianist Antonia Hevesi. A variety of lullabies from England,
America, Germany, Spain and Iceland by - among others - Benjamin
Britten, Aaron Copland, Hanns Eisler, Manuel
de Falla, Xavier Montsalvatge and Icelandic composers.
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Extra concert
Sunday June 26th
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Gruppo Atlantico: Sigurlaug Eðvaldsdóttir
and Hlíf Sigurjónsdóttir violins, Guðrún
Þórarinsdóttir viola and Þórir Jóhannsson
double-bass with Sigurgeir Agnarsson cello, Rúnar Óskarsson
clarinet, Darren Stonham bassoon and Emil Friðfinnsson
horn. Octet D 803 for winds and strings by Franz Schubert.
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Tuesday June 28th
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Helga Þórarinsdóttir viola and Kristinn
H. Árnason guitar. Works by Benedetto Marcello,
Antonio Vivaldi, Ferdinando Carulli,
Manuel de Falla and Árni Thorsteinsson.
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Tuesday July 5th
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Trio Trix. Sigríður Bjarney Baldvinsdóttir
violin, Vigdís Másdóttir viola and Helga
Björg Ágústsdóttir cello. String Trio in a-minor
by the German composer Max Reger and Serenade op. 11 by the Hungarian
composer Ernst von Dohnányi.
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Tuesday July 12th
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Sigríður Aðalsteinsdóttir mezzosoprano
and Helga Bryndís Magnúsdóttir piano. Works
by Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Gustav
Mahler and the Icelandic composers Jón Ásgeirsson
and Páll Ísólfsson. Program
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Tuesday July 19th
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The Slide Show Secret. Eva Zöllner accordion
and Kristján Orri Sigurleifsson double bass perform new pieces
by young German and Icelandic composers; Helmut Zapf, Matthias Pintscher,
Úlfar Ingi Haraldsson and Ingi Garðar Erlendsson,
and also works by the late American composer John Cage
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Tuesday July 26th
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Duo Landon. Violinists Hlíf
Sigurjónsdóttir and Hjörleifur Valsson
perform 44 duos by Béla Bartók on violins made by the
French violin-maker Christophe
Landon.
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Tuesday August 2nd
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Bára Grímsdóttir, traditional singer and
kantele player and Chris Foster, singer and guitarist,
perform their own arrangements of Icelandic and English traditional
songs.
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Tuesday August 9th
at 20:30
Jazz
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Tómas R. Einarsson double-bass,
Óskar Guðjónsson tenor- and baritone saxophones,
Snorri Sigurðarson fluegelhorn and trumpet, Ómar Guðjónsson
guitar and Matthías M. D. Hemstock drums and percussion.
Romantic waltzes, plus one musical poem on the unpleasant after-effects
of excessive drinking by Tómas R. Einarsson.
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Tuesday August 16th
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Jóhanna Halldórsdóttir alt, Heike
ter Stal teorba, Steinunn Arnbjörg Stefánsdóttir
baroque cello and Guðrún Óskarsdóttir
harpsichord.
Il Rosignole - The Nightingale. Italian baroque music by Gasparini,
Scarlatti, Piccinini Strozzi, Frescobaldi, Cassini, Cazzati and Monteverdi.
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Tuesday August 23rd
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Auður Hafsteinsdóttir violin and Anna
Guðný Guðmundsdóttir piano.
War and Peace. Sonata for violin and piano in F-major by Edward
Grieg and Sonata for violin and piano in f-minor by Sergej Prokofiev.
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Tuesday August 30th
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Alda Ingibergsdóttir soprano and Ólafur
Vignir Albertsson piano. Summer and Love.
Songs by the Icelandic composers Sigfús Halldórsson,
Jón Ásgeirsson, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson,
Jón Þórarinsson and Þórarinn
Jónsson. Also arias from Offenbach and
Verdi operas.
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Sunday September 4th at 17:00
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Gershwin and his New York
Lincoln Mayorga piano. Music by George Gershwin, his major European
and American influences, and his colleagues in "The Pan Alley",
the popular music industry of N.Y. The program will include historical commentary
and anecdotes from this fascinating jass era.
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Tuesday September 6th
at 20:30
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Hlíf Sigurjónsdóttir violin
and Lincoln Mayorga piano. An evening of music composed and arranged
for violin and piano by the beloved Austrian violin virtuoso Fritz Kreisler.
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