In Paradisum. Requiem by Gabriel Fauré at Hallgrimskirkja

Concert with students from Iceland University of the Arts (IUA) and Iceland National Church's Music School in collaboration with the Hallgrímskirkja Friends of the Arts Society.  Religious music by Gabriel Fauré, Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelsohn, Cécar Franck and more.

Free entrance and everybody welcome.

Programme:

Théodore Dubois (1837 - 1924): 
from Douze pièces

Charles Marie Widor (1845-1937):
Meditation
Symphonie pour orgue no 1 op. 13 no 1

Concert at Hallgrímskirkja

Concert with students of the music department of IUA (Iceland University of the Arts) on Saturday, April 28th at 2pm at Hallgrímskirkja. 

Music by Icelandic composers Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Jón Ásgeirsson, Jórunn Viðar and Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson.

The concert is a collaboration between the music department of IUA and Hallgrímskirkja Friends of the Arts Society.

Programme:

Anela Bakraqi: Graduate concert

Anela Bakraqi gives her final piano recital from the music department of IUA on Thursday, May 17th at 8pm in Salurinn, Kópavogur. Free entrance - everybody welcome.

Programme:

  • W. A. Mozart: Sonata K. 333 in B-major
  • A. Scriabin: Deux Poémes op. 32
  • J. Brahms: Fantasias op. 116 nr. 2, 6 og 7.
  • L. V. Beethoven: Bagatelle op. 126 nr. 2
  • C. Debussy: Etýða no. 7. Pour les degrés chromatiques. 
  • S. Rachmanínov: Moments Musicaux op. 16 nr. 1, 3 og 4. 

Photo: Leifur Wilberg.

Erna Ómarsdóttir: Graduate concert

Erna Ómarsdóttir gives her final recital from the music department of IUA on Tuesday, May 22nd at 8pm in Salurinn, Kópavogur. Free entrance - everybody welcome.

Programme:

  • W. A. Mozart: Horn-quintet in E flat major
  • Carl Nielsen: Canto Serioso
  • Richard Strauss: Theme and variations op. 13 
  • Herbert H. Ágústsson: Andante
  • Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Sonata for French horn

Performing with Erna:

Brynjar Friðrik Pétursson: Graduate concert

Guitarist Brynjar Friðrik Pétursson gives his final recital from the music department of IUA on Wednesday, May 16th at 6pm. 

Programme:

  • Francesco da Milano: Fantasia  Lútusvítu í e-moll, BWV 996 eftir
  • J.S. Bach: Suite in e-minor BWV 996
  • Mauro Giuliani: Gran sonata eroica  
  • Isaac Albéniz: Granada and Sevilla 
  • Haflidi Hallgrímsson: Jacob's Ladder

Photo credits: Leifur Wilberg

Inger-Maren Fjeldheim: Graduate concert

Inger-Maren Fjeldheim gives her final recital from the IUA music department on Wednesday, May 23rd at 8pm. Free entrance - everybody welcome.

Program:

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata no. 2 a minor BWV 1003 3. Andante 4. Allegro
  • Kleiberg: Aske
  • Manuel De Falla: El paño moruno and Nana from Seven Spanish Folksongs 
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/ Fritz Kreisler: Rondo in G major from Haffnes Serenade
  • Edvard Grieg: Sonata no. 2 in G Major Op. 13

Piano: Richard Simm

Elísa Elíasdóttir: Graduate concert

Pianist Elísa Elíasdóttir gives her final recital from the music department of IUA (Iceland University of the Arts) on May 15th at 8pm. Free entrance - everybody welcome. The concert is Elísa's 

Elísa will perform music for solo piano by J. S. Bach / F. Busoni, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt as well as Trio Pathétique by Michail Glinka with Kristín Þóra Pétursdóttir, clarinet and Þórdís Gerður Jónsdóttir, cello.

Photo credits: Leifur Wilberg.