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Marianna Shirinyan

Hlín Leifsdóttir

Ágota Joó

Marianna Shirinyan – góðgerðartónleikar með Hlín Leifsdóttur og Kvennakór Reykjavíkur

Salurinn er tónleikasalur í Kópavogi og heimili tónleikaraðarinnar Tíbrá.

Salurinn

ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER MAKES HER HARPA DEBUT

Harpa welcomes Anne Sofie von Otter for her long-awaited Icelandic debut, joined by her close artistic partner Bengt Forsberg, guitarist Fabian Fredriksson and Icelandic soprano Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir.

Anne Sofie will bring her celebrated Christmas programme to Icelandic audiences. Works by Schubert, Wolf, Sibelius, Bach, Fauré, Ravel, Pärt and others come together in a programme that moves between the reflective stillness of the Nordic winter and the warmth and familiarity of the festive season.


The concert also marks the launch of Ópus Reykjavík, a new artistic event series founded by Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir, which aims, among other things, to foster creative collaborations between outstanding international artists and Iceland’s artistic community. The concert is presented jointly by Ópus Reykjavík and Harpa.

The concert will take place in Norðurljós, with limited seating available.

 

DUE TO HIGH DEMAND, AN ADDITIONAL CONCERT WITH ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER HAS BEEN ADDED AT 6:00 pm ON DECEMBER 10! GENERAL TICKET SALES FOR THE 6:00 pm CONCERT WILL OPEN ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 AT 9:00 AM.




Renowned for her unparalleled and multi award-winning discography, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter’s creative versatility has seen her work with legendary artists ranging from the late greats of Carlos Kleiber, Claudio Abbado and Giuseppe Sinopoli to Elvis Costello, Brad Mehldau and Rufus Wainwright.

An ever-evolving repertoire has played a key role in sustaining Swedish-born von Otter’s international profile, from an early position as the superlative Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) of her generation, to her acclaimed creation of Leonora in the world premiere of Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel at Salzburger Festspiele and Royal Ballet & Opera. Performance highlights in later seasons include as Madame de Croissy in Oliver Py’s staging of Dialogues des Carmélites at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, as Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro) in Christof Loy’s production at Bayerische Staatsoper, and as L’Opinion Publique (Orphée aux Enfers) in Barrie Kosky’s staging at Salzburger Festspiele. Adding further to an already impressive catalogue of opera repertoire, more recently there have been role debuts as the Countess (Pique Dame) at La Monnaie under Nathalie Stutzmann and Adelaide (Arabella) at Teatro Real under David Afkham.

Equally recognised as a concert and recital singer of exceptional gifts, von Otter’s career has taken her around the globe as a regular presence on the world’s most prestigious stages excelling in a diverse repertoire including works by Mahler, Berlioz, Bach and Kurt Weill, and her expansive Lieder recordings range from classics by Schubert, Schumann, Wolf and Mahler, through lesser-known compilations from Cécile Chaminade, Korngold, Peterson-Bergen and Stenhammar.

Anne Sofie von Otter is one of today’s most recorded artists with an incomparable catalogue built across a career now spanning more than four decades at the top of her profession. A lengthy and exclusive relationship with Deutsche Grammophon produced a wealth of acclaimed recordings including the GRAMMY-winning Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Claudio Abbado, Handel’s Ariodante, Giulio Cesare and Hercules with Marc Minkowski and a collaboration with pop legend Elvis Costello on For the Stars. On Naïve Classique, her double CD of Mélodies and Chansons, Douce France, received the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. von Otter immortalized many of her operatic characters on disc: Octavian with Bernard Haitink and the Staatskapelle Dresden and on DVD with Wiener Staatsoper under Carlos Kleiber; Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) under James Levine; La clemenza di Tito and Orfeo ed Euridice under Sir John Eliot Gardiner; and Ariadne auf Naxos under Giuseppe Sinopoli. Her latest album Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! Kabarett und Exil is an eclectic recital of musical numbers spanning the music of 1920s to 1940s Germany in collaboration with the Salon Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin and Adam Benzwi is released on BIS.



An award-winning soprano and visual artist, Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir was named Singer of the Year in the Classical and Contemporary Music category at the 2021 Icelandic Music Awards. A former ensemble member of Theater Basel and a 2025/26 ECHO Rising Star, she has appeared at leading European opera houses and concert halls including Staatsoper Berlin, Theater Basel, the Elbphilharmonie, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Philharmonie de Paris. She recently made a major international breakthrough in contemporary opera with her acclaimed portrayal of the title role in Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland, presented in its Austrian premiere in Vienna, where her performance was widely praised for its dramatic precision and vocal virtuosity. This season she continues her close engagement with new music through two major staged world premieres: Hania Rani’s If I Do Not Return and Bryce Dessner’s Herakles Mad to libretto by Anne Carson, in collaboration with the Icelandic visual artist Ragnar Kjartansson.

“Anne Sofie has been a role model for me ever since I began studying singing. Her curiosity, sincerity and the beauty of her voice have had a profound influence on me and shaped me as both a singer and an artist. To now have the opportunity to welcome her to Reykjavík and sing alongside her therefore holds a very special meaning for me. I could not imagine a better beginning for Ópus Reykjavík.”

— Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir

Bengt Forsberg has long been one of the most highly regarded and sought-after pianists of his generation and has enjoyed a fruitful artistic partnership with Anne Sofie von Otter spanning several decades. Together they have recorded numerous acclaimed albums that have attracted international attention and received a wealth of awards and honours, including celebrated recordings of songs by Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius and Franz Schubert, among many others.

Forsberg’s repertoire is exceptionally broad, and he has devoted particular attention to music by forgotten and lesser-known masters of the past. His repertoire includes solo piano works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Emmanuel Chabrier and Kaikhosru Sorabji, while his recordings also feature works by composers including Godard, Boëllmann, Koechlin, Pierné and Alfvén.

He has collaborated with numerous artists in art song and chamber music, most notably, in addition to Anne Sofie von Otter, violinist Nils-Erik Sparf and cellist Mats Lidström.

Promoter: Harpa

Anne Sofie von Otter

Bengt Forsberg

Fabian Fredriksson

Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir

Christmas Concert with Anne Sofie von Otter

Harpa er tónlistar- og ráðstefnuhús við höfnina í Reykjavík, með salina Eldborg og Norðurljós.

Harpa

Flytjendur:
Ari Þór Vilhjálmsson, fiðla
Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir, víóla
Sigurgeir Agnarsson, selló
Xun Yang, bassi
Domenico Codispoti, píanó



Kammermúsíkklúbburinn fagnar nú sjötíu ára afmæli en fyrstu tónleikar klúbbsins fóru fram í Melaskóla þann 7. febrúar 1957. Þá hlýddu á annað hundrað tónleikagestir á Erkihertogatríóið eftir Beethoven í flutningi Björns Ólafssonar, konsertmeistara Sinfóníuhljómsveitar Íslands, Einars Vigfússonar, leiðara sellódeildar SÍ og Árna Kristjánssonar píanóleikara. Eftir hlé bættust við Jón Sen á víólu og Erwin Köppen á bassa og flutti hópurinn Silungakvintettinn eftir Schubert. Líklega óraði fáa tónleikagesti fyrir því að klúbburinn ætti eftir að verða helsti vettvangur landsins fyrir flutning kammertónlistar og að starfseminni yrði haldið áfram óslitið næstu sjö áratugina.

Efnisskrá þessara fyrstu tónleika verður endurtekin á afmælisdaginn 7. febrúar 2027 af fríðum hópi flytjenda: Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir, Sigurgeir Agnarsson og Xun Yang eru leiðarar í víólu-, selló- og bassadeild Sinfóníuhljómsveitar Íslands. Með þeim leikur ítalski píanóleikarinn Domenico Codispoti sem er íslenskum tónleikagestum að góðu kunnur og Ari Þór Vilhjálmsson, listrænn stjórnandi Kammermúsíkklúbbsins.


Kammermúsíkklúbburinn er í samstarfi við Sígilda sunnudaga í Hörpu.

Tónleikarnir fara fram í Norðurljósum.


Sjá nánari upplýsingar og efnisskrá á heimasíðu Kammermúsíkklúbbsins,  kammer.is

Promoter: Kammermúsíkklúbburinn

Ari Þór Vilhjálmsson

Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir

Sigurgeir Agnarsson

Xun Yang

Domenico Codispoti

Klavertrio nr. 7

Piano Trio No. 7

Ørredkvintetten

Piano Quintet

Ørretkvintetten

KMK70, NR. 4: Kammermúsíkklúbburinn sjötugur

The world-renowned Elisabeth Leonskaja is making good use of her visit to Iceland, and all lovers of piano music are offered a unique opportunity to experience her nuanced playing in a solo concert. Leonskaya was born in Georgia just after the end of World War II. She won the Enesco Piano Competition in 1964 and, for example, played a duo concerto with the legendary Sviatoslav Richter. Since 1978, Leonskaja has resided in Vienna, from where she brings the music of two masters with her. Here, on the one hand, we’ll hear Beethoven's Fantasia for Piano, Op. 77, which the composer likely first improvised at a huge concert in 1808, before committing the work to paper a year later. However, Leonskaja succeeds here in matching Schubert's powerful and moving sonata D 960, which was the last sonata he composed for the instrument shortly before his death and was not published until after his death.


Piano
Elisabeth Leonskaja

Program
Ludwig van Beethoven Fantasia for Piano, Op. 77
Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D.960

Promoter: Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands

Franz Schubert

Most played works

Concerts with music by Franz Schubert

19. Nov

19:30

Salurinn

Kópavogur

Marianna Shirinyan – góðgerðartónleikar með Hlín Leifsdóttur og Kvennakór Reykjavíkur

Marianna Shirinyan, píanó

Hlín Leifsdóttir, sópran

Kvennakór Reykjavíkur

Stjórnandi: Ágota Joó

Kynnir: Birgir Þórarinsson

19. Nov

19:30

Salurinn

Kópavogur

10. Dec

18:00

Harpa

Reykjavík

Christmas Concert with Anne Sofie von Otter

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzosopran

Bengt Forsberg, klaver

Fabian Fredriksson, guitar

Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir, sopran

10. Dec

18:00

Harpa

Reykjavík

10. Dec

20:30

Harpa

Reykjavík

Christmas Concert with Anne Sofie von Otter

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzosopran

Bengt Forsberg, klaver

Fabian Fredriksson, guitar

Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir, sopran

10. Dec

20:30

Harpa

Reykjavík

7. Feb

16:00

Harpa

Reykjavík

KMK70, NR. 4: Kammermúsíkklúbburinn sjötugur

Ari Þór Vilhjálmsson, fiðla

Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir, víóla

Sigurgeir Agnarsson, selló

Xun Yang, bassi

Domenico Codispoti, píanó

7. Feb

16:00

Harpa

Reykjavík

30. Apr

18:00

Harpa

Reykjavík

Elisabeth Leonskaja - Solo Recital

Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands

Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano

30. Apr

18:00

Harpa

Reykjavík

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