SUMMER CONCERTS
2025
  


Tuesday July 1st at 8:30 pm
Freyr, Hlíf, Martin,
Þórdís and Sólveig		 Harp, Flute and Strings
Sól­veig Thor­odd­sen harp, Freyr Sigurjóns­son flute, Hlíf Sigurjóns­dóttir violin, Martin Frewer viola and Þór­dís Gerður Jóns­dóttir cello.
Quinteto Instrumental by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Sonatina en Trio by Maurice Ravel and Sérénada op. 30 by Albert Roussel.
Press Release − Program in Icelandic
Tuesday July 8th at 8:30 pm
Diet, Guja and Heleen		 “This Morning I Saw a Girl”
Tríó Ljósa: Diet Tilan­us violin, Guja Sandholt singer and Heleen Vegter piano.
The pro­gram con­sists of folk music and songs cent­er­ed around youth­ful love. Ice­land­ic folk songs ar­rang­ed by Helgi R. Ing­vars­son, also Irish and Scottish folk songs and Four Songs for Trio to poems by Þór Sand­holt by Hildi­gunn­ur Rúnars­dóttir.
Tuesday July 15th at 8:30 pm
Konstantin Zvyagin		 A travel through Wagner’s Ring with Konst­antin Zvyagin
Pianist Konstantin Zvyagin will play his own trans­script­ions from Rich­ard Wagn­er’s Der Ring des Niebel­ung­en, a suite in 8 move­ments. Of Rus­sian origin, Kon­stant­in lives in Darm­stadt, Germ­any and has de­vot­ed him­self to Wagn­er’s music. The visit to Ice­land and this con­cert is in co­operat­ion with the Rich­ard Wagner Society in Iceland.
Tuesday July 22nd at 8:30 pm
Siu Chui and Sigríður Ósk		 Sea Breeze
Sigríður Ósk Kristjánsdóttir, mezzo-soprano, and Siu Chui Li, pian­ist, pre­sent a vibr­ant, sum­mery pro­gram.
The pro­gram re­volv­es around two works by Maur­ice Ravel, com­memor­at­ing 150 years since his birth this year. “We journey through the French country­side with Ravel’s dis­tinc­tive Chants popula­ires, travel to Spain to hear Manuel de Falla’s capti­vat­ing Seven Spanish Folk Songs, and con­clude in Venice on a gond­ola with beauti­ful songs by Reynaldo Hahn.”
Extra Concert
Friday July 25th at 8:30 pm
April and Kristi		 Lóa
The duo Lóa, con­sist­ing of April Clayton, flute and Kristi Shade, harp, both from USA, per­forms works from their forth­com­ing CD, re­leas­ed by Cryst­al Rec­ords lat­er this year. Their pro­gram ex­plor­es varied inter­nat­ional re­perto­ire by Arnold Bax (UK), Jean-Michel Damase (France), Daniel Dorff (USA), and Þórð­ur Magnús­son and Atli Heimir Sveins­son (Iceland). While Lóa is re­cently form­ed, the col­labora­tion of April and Kristi start­ed with the trio Hat Trick in 2013.
Tuesday July 29nd at 8:30 pm
Ásta Soffía		 Bach, Boulanger and Icelandic Music
Ásta Soffía Þorgeirsdóttir accordion.
The program consists of a variety of old classics, like J. S. Bach and Nadia Boulanger, more contemporary pieces by Haukur Tómasson and Ásbjörg Jónsdóttir and a collection of Icelandic psalms, folk songs and tangoes arranged for the accordion by Ásta Soffía.
Tuesday August 5th at 8:30 pm
Hjörleifur and Ourania		 Hjörleifur Valsson violin and Ourania Menelaou piano and drums.
The duo’s first performance in Reykjavík was in Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum exactly 30 years ago. In this concert they will perform Sonata for Violin, Piano and Drums by the American avant-garde composer George Johann Carl Antheil, Five Pieces for Violin and Piano by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi, and Sonata for violin and piano by the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke.
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