{"id":34048,"date":"2026-04-14T11:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/?post_type=events&#038;p=34048"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:58:05","slug":"context-of-luminaries-asher-ian-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/samhengi-luminaries-asher-ian-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Context: Luminaries\/Asher Ian Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section style=\"--overlay-opacity: 40%; --overlay-bg: #000000;\" class=\"hero-section h1-lg  \" >\n\t<div class=\"container animation-child-elements\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<figure class=\"bg-visual\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Asher-Armstrong--1800x1012.png\" class=\"lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n\t<section class=\"meta-info-section \"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"meta-info animation-child-elements\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Dagsetning<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>24.April 2026<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>T\u00edmi<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>12:15-13:00<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Sta\u00f0setning<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Dynjandi, Skipholt 31, 105 Reykjav\u00edk<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Dagatal<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"dropdown add-to-calendar-dropdown\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"dropdown-toggle event-dropdown\" type=\"button\" id=\"dropdownMenuButton1\" data-bs-toggle=\"dropdown\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Setja \u00ed dagatal<\/a> \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"dropdown-menu\" aria-labelledby=\"dropdownMenuButton1\" data-popper-placement=\"bottom-start\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a class=\"dropdown-item\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/render?action=TEMPLATE&#038;text=Samhengi: Luminaries \/ Asher Ian Armstrong&#038;dates=20260424T121500Z\/20260424T130000Z&#038;details=Sko\u00f0a n\u00e1nar https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/samhengi-luminaries-asher-ian-armstrong\/&#038;location=Dynjandi, Skipholt 31, 105 Reykjav\u00edk&#038;sprop=&#038;sprop=name:\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa-brands fa-google\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> Google dagatal<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a class=\"dropdown-item\" href=\"data:text\/calendar;charset=utf8,BEGIN:VCALENDAR%0AVERSION:2.0%0ABEGIN:VEVENT%0AURL:https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/samhengi-luminaries-asher-ian-armstrong\/%0ADTSTART:20260424T121500Z%0ADTEND:20260424T130000Z%0ASUMMARY:Samhengi: Luminaries \/ Asher Ian Armstrong%0ADESCRIPTION:Sko\u00f0a n\u00e1nar https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/samhengi-luminaries-asher-ian-armstrong\/%0ALOCATION:Dynjandi, Skipholt 31, 105 Reykjav\u00edk%0AEND:VEVENT%0AEND:VCALENDAR\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa-brands fa-apple\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> iCal dagatal<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a class=\"dropdown-item\" href=\"data:text\/calendar;charset=utf8,BEGIN:VCALENDAR%0AVERSION:2.0%0ABEGIN:VEVENT%0AURL:https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/samhengi-luminaries-asher-ian-armstrong\/%0ADTSTART:20260424T121500Z%0ADTEND:20260424T130000Z%0ASUMMARY:Samhengi: Luminaries \/ Asher Ian Armstrong%0ADESCRIPTION:Sko\u00f0a n\u00e1nar https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/samhengi-luminaries-asher-ian-armstrong\/%0ALOCATION:Dynjandi, Skipholt 31, 105 Reykjav\u00edk%0AEND:VEVENT%0AEND:VCALENDAR\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa-brands fa-microsoft\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> Outlook dagatal<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"intro-section \"  >\n\t<div class=\"container animation\">\n\t\t<p>Samhengi \/\/ H\u00e1degisfyrirlestur  24.4.26 &#8211; 12:15-13:00<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"text-section txt-columns txt-content \" >\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row animation-child-elements animation-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Samhengi b\u00fd\u00f0ur velkominn Asher Ian Armstrong p\u00edan\u00f3leikara, f\u00f6studaginn 24. apr\u00edl. Samhengi ver\u00f0ur a\u00f0 \u00feessu sinni \u00ed formi t\u00f3nleika undir nafninu Luminaries \u00fear sem kastlj\u00f3sinu er beint a\u00f0 fj\u00f6lbreyttum og l\u00edtt \u00feekktum hluta p\u00edan\u00f3b\u00f3kmenntanna, verkum kvent\u00f3nsk\u00e1lda sem hafa lengi sta\u00f0i\u00f0 \u00ed skugga hinna s\u00edgildu meistara. Efnisskr\u00e1in spannar tuttugustu \u00f6ldina og dregur fram t\u00f3nlist sem m\u00f3ta\u00f0ist af str\u00ed\u00f0i, menningararfi og pers\u00f3nulegri tj\u00e1ningu.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"737\">Heyra m\u00e1 me\u00f0al annars \u00e1hrifamikil verk eftir Maria Herz, Gayane Chebotaryan og Jean Coulthard, auk n\u00fds \u00edslensks verks, <em data-start=\"560\" data-end=\"568\">Boreas<\/em> eftir Veronique Vaka, sem s\u00e6kir innbl\u00e1stur \u00ed nor\u00f0urlj\u00f3sin. T\u00f3nleikunum l\u00fdkur \u00e1 st\u00f3rbrotnu verki eftir C\u00e9sar Franck og lj\u00fafri \u00fatsetningu \u00e1 s\u00f6nglaginu <em>Nacht und Tr\u00e4ume<\/em> eftir Franz Schubert.<\/p>\n<p>Vi\u00f0bur\u00f0urinn fer fram \u00ed Dynjanda, h\u00fasi T\u00f3nlistardeildar, Skipholti 31.<br \/>\n\u00d6ll hjartanlega velkomin!<\/p>\n<p>\/\/<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Samhengi welcomes pianist Asher Ian Armstrong on Friday, April 24th. On this occasion,  Samhengi takes the form of a recital entitled Luminaries, shining a spotlight on a rich and largely overlooked corner of the piano repertoire: works by women composers who have long stood in the shadow of the canonical masters. The programme spans the twentieth century and brings forward music shaped by war, cultural heritage, and personal expression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Featured works include pieces by Maria Herz, Gayane Chebotaryan, and Jean Coulthard, alongside a new Icelandic work, Boreas by Veronique Vaka, inspired by the Northern Lights. The recital concludes with a monumental work by C\u00e9sar Franck and a tender arrangement of Schubert&#8217;s beloved song Nacht und Tr\u00e4ume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The event takes place at Dynjandi, home of the Music Department, Skipholti 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">All are warmly welcome!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Armstrong-photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34050 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Armstrong-photo-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Armstrong-photo-1-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Armstrong-photo-1-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asher Armstrong\u2019s playing has been described as \u201cpowerful, big-boned\u201d (American Record Guide) and \u201cgraceful, agile, and spontaneous\u201d (Fanfare). He has performed widely across Europe and North America, with recent recitals at the Penderecki Academy in Krak\u00f3w, the Royal College of Music in London, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. His three solo albums feature works by Brahms, Busoni, and late-Romantic virtuosos. A passionate advocate for overlooked and contemporary repertoire, Armstrong has premiered works by Varvara Gaigerova and others. He currently teaches at the University of Toronto and serves as an Advanced Examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"text-section txt-columns txt-content \" >\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row animation-child-elements animation-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\"><strong>Luminaries<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">A Piano Recital<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\">Music critic Alex Ross recently said of the music of Florence Price that \u201cshe seems to speak from an imaginary past, from an alternative history of an America that lived up to its stated ideals.\u201d  The same could be said for the piano literature; while music by Chopin, Schubert, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff is played and heard every season, there is a massive \u201calternative history\u201d of piano music written by women of which most listeners remain unaware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\">The Twentieth century is an ideal point from which to embark on an exploration of this largely unknown landscape of music.  The composers heard on the first half of this program represent many components of this fascinating time in music history:<\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\">Maria Herz, a German Jew born in Cologne, led a remarkably creative existence even while experiencing war, upheaval, deaths of loved ones, and finally, a permanent dismantling of her family.  Her music belies a love of the Nineteenth century Romantics (though later works show a true Modernist at work), and her early Variations on a Theme by Chopin are heard in Iceland for the first time today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s5\">Similarly, war and conflict are forces which shaped the life of Gayane Chebotaryan in an indelible way.  An Armenian, she was 5 years old when the genocide of her people was stopped, and would go on to work as a Soviet composer and musicologist for nearly the rest of the century.  Her music is distinctive, faithful to her Armenian roots, and often expressively direct in a way that can be unexpectedly powerful; the beautiful Prelude and Fugue heard here featuresmore than one such moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\">Jean Coulthard is one of Canada\u2019s greatest composers; among many other works written throughout the span of the Twentieth century, her two piano sonatas stand out as large, ambitious works \u2013 and some of the most significant examples of the genre to come out of Canada, <span class=\"s6\">ever<\/span>.  The first \u2013 a work which shows her fascination with emotional, Romantic templates of the form (and with Impressionist music vocabulary) is heard here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\">The Icelandic piano work <span class=\"s6\">Boreas<\/span> was written very recently (2024) \u2013 its composer, Veronique Vaka, depicts the beauty of the Aurora Borealis in three brief movements, lasting 7-8 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\">Finally, this performance will conclude with a large work \u2013 the most important piano piece to be written in late Nineteenth-century France: the Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue by C\u00e9sar Franck.  This monumental canvas is the perfect example of this composer\u2019s famous \u201ccyclicism,\u201d where three separate musical ideas are interwoven, and brilliantly combined in the last moments of the fugue.  Following this will be the performer\u2019s transcription of one of Schubert\u2019s most famous and beloved Lieder, the lullaby <span class=\"s6\">Nacht und Tr\u00e4ume<\/span><span class=\"s6\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\">\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>PROGRAMME<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span class=\"s6\">Preludes and Fugues in the Modes of Armenian Music<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nBook 1, No. 4.<br \/>\n<em>Gayane Chebotaryan(1918-1998)<br \/>\n<\/em>Prelude \u201cChaconne\u201d: <span class=\"s6\">Andante<br \/>\n<\/span>Fugue: <span class=\"s6\">Moderato<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Variations on Chopin\u2019s C Minor <span class=\"s6\">Pr\u00e9lude<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n(Op. 28, No. 20), Op. 1 (c. 1914)<br \/>\n<em>Maria Herz (1878\u20131950)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Piano Sonata No. 1<\/strong> (1947).<br \/>\n<em>Jean Coulthard (1908-2000)<br \/>\n<\/em>I. <span class=\"s6\">Freely and Lyrically<br \/>\n<\/span>II. \u201cThrenody\u201d: <span class=\"s6\">Slow and pensively<br \/>\n<\/span>III. Finale: <span class=\"s6\">Resolutely<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span class=\"s6\">Boreas <\/span><\/strong>(2024)<br \/>\n<em>Veronique Vaka (1986\u2013)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span class=\"s6\">Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue<\/span><\/strong> (1884)<br \/>\n<em>C\u00e9sar Franck (1822-1890)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span class=\"s6\">Nacht und Tr\u00e4ume<\/span><\/strong> (1825)<br \/>\n<em>Franz Schubert (1797-1828)\/arr. Armstrong<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asher Armstrong's playing has been described as \u201cpowerful, big-boned\u201d (American Record Guide) and \u201cgraceful, agile, and spontaneous\u201d (Fanfare). He has performed wide across Europe and North America, with recent reviews at the Penderecki Academy in Krak\u00f3w, the Royal College of Music in London, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. His three solo albums...  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/samhengi-luminaries-asher-ian-armstrong\/\" title=\"Read Context: Luminaries\/Asher Ian Armstrong\">Read more \u00bbC\u00bb<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":34051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_departmens_cat":0,"wds_primary_global_cat":0,"wds_primary_events_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"departmens_cat":[123],"global_cat":[],"events_cat":[231,210],"class_list":["post-34048","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","departmens_cat-tonlistardeild","events_cat-fyrirlestur","events_cat-samhengi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/34048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/34048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34056,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/34048\/revisions\/34056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"departmens_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departmens_cat?post=34048"},{"taxonomy":"global_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/global_cat?post=34048"},{"taxonomy":"events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events_cat?post=34048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}