{"id":26630,"date":"2025-08-14T12:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/?p=26630"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:49:29","slug":"the-first-ever-piano-competition-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/fyrsta-althjodlega-pianokeppnin-wpta-a-islandi\/","title":{"rendered":"The first international piano competition WPTA in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>On August 16 - 17, the first international piano competition will take place in the Hall in K\u00f3pavogur. The competition is held by the Association of Icelandic Pianists Peter M\u00e1t\u00e9, Erna Vala Arnard\u00f3ttir and N\u00edna Margr\u00e9ti Gr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir under the banner of WPTA Iceland IPC 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The jury is made up of both national and foreign judges, and the award winners receive an auspicious monetary award for outstanding music performance. The competition is sponsored by Steinway and T\u00f3nast\u00f6\u00f0in, as well as support from K\u00f3pavogsb\u00e6r, LH\u00cd\/Opna University of the Arts, Salnum and K\u00f3pavog's Music School.<\/p>\n<p>The program for the weekend is as follows<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>August 15 at 20:00: Jury concert<\/li>\n<li>August 16: WPTA Iceland International Piano Competition\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Class 1 at 14.00 - 14:50<\/li>\n<li>Class 2 at 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>August 17 at 2:00 pm: Awards ceremony and winner's concert<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Admission to all events of the competition is free and open to all music lovers.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found on the WPTA Iceland website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpta.info\/iceland\">www.wpta.info\/iceland<\/a><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/untitled-45-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1365\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/untitled-45-scaled.png 1365w, https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/untitled-45-1067x1600.png 1067w, https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/untitled-45-533x800.png 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1365px) 100vw, 1365px\" \/>\n<p><em>In the picture: Peter M\u00e1t\u00e9, Erna Vala Arnard\u00f3ttir and N\u00edna Margr\u00e9t Gr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\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\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":26643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":115,"wds_primary_departmens_cat":0,"wds_primary_global_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"departmens_cat":[123],"global_cat":[],"class_list":["post-26630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir","departmens_cat-tonlistardeild"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26652,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26630\/revisions\/26652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26630"},{"taxonomy":"departmens_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departmens_cat?post=26630"},{"taxonomy":"global_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/global_cat?post=26630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}