Sara Rós Hulda Róbertsdóttir
13.04.24
Seltjarnarnes church
The girl who was
Performers
Amateur Symphony Orchestra
Administrator
Oliver Kentish
Sara Rós Hulda Róbertsdóttir
BA Instrumental Compositions
Sara Rós (b. 2002) started her music studies at Stykkishólm's Music School at the age of 6, first only studying piano, but at the age of 10 she studied French horn and later singing on top of a double instrument course. She started writing her own music at a young age, and premiered, among other things, her own piano piece at Kítón's concert in Stykkishólm at the age of 15. After graduating from school, she completed her songwriting studies at Engelsholm Folk University in Denmark and then began studying instrumental music at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in the fall of 2021, with Hildigunni Rúnarsdóttir as the main teacher. In the past two years, she has also performed a number of diverse works, including works for chamber groups, solo instruments, choir and music for short films, and the Skálskol, which has also been premiered in the Skálskolskir, and music for the final project.
The girl who was
The piece is composed for a symphony orchestra and is inspired by the sweet and tragic experiences of the composer's mother It describes in five chapters the unique friendship between two young girls, which received a steep and premature ending one of them was brutally murdered in Copenhagen in the summer of 1990, when they were both 18 years old The first chapter of the work attempts to capture the youthful glow and the joy that characterized the friendship of the girls when they were children In the second chapter, a slightly more adult feel can be discerned, as the girls mature and experience the love and disappointment of adolescence The third chapter describes the brutal murder and the crippling sadness that followed in the loved ones of the victim The fourth chapter considers the consequences of the murder in the long term, and finally the work ends with a tract in which the composer's mother describes this life experience in her own words in personal and sincere ways.
