Next week will be very busy for me, with nothing less but 5 concerts,
but thankfully only two - FABULOUS - programs!
My dear friend and fantastic musician Bjarni Frímann and I will perform our demanding fin de siècle program, Wednesday the 23rd of February.
The concert is a part of a new concert series, called Syngjandi í Salnum - Singing in Salurinn. (Salurinn is a lovely music hall in Kópavogur’s Culture House.)
We have chosen 3 Opus numbers to focus on:
Debussy L60 - Ariettes oubliées
Richard Strauss, Opus 68 - Brentano Lieder
Rachmaninoff, Opus 38 - 6 Romances
And then The Iceland Symphony's ever-popular Viennese concerts are back on the schedule! Tenor Gissur Páll Gissurarson is well known to Icelanders for his singing and has performed with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra several times in recent years. I look forward to working with him, as well as the symphony’s conductor-in-residence, Kornilios Michailidis, these four evenings in Eldborg, Harpa.
Eva Ollikainen, the symphony’s chief conductor was supposed to boss us around, but something has just come up and Kornilios will thankfully step in.
Vienna concerts:
24 Feb 2022 » 19:30
25 Feb 2022 » 19:30
26 Feb 2022 » 16:00 and 19:30.
