The Iceland Symphony at Dark Music Days

The Dark Music Days music festival spotlights new music. The Iceland Symphony Orchestra will premiere two compositions by Kjartan Sveinsson and Haukur Tómasson. Bára Gísladóttir, Þuríður Jónsdóttir and Clara Iannotta also have works on the programme. Kjartan is an incredibly versatile musician and composer. He is known as one of the frontmen of the band Sigur Rós, but also for compositions that have been performed around the world. Haukur Tómasson is among Iceland’s leading composers, and the orchestra has performed and recorded a number of his works. Bára Gísladóttir's career is on a meteoric rise, and this concert will see her work, sea sons seasons, performed for the first time in Iceland. In it, the composer reflects on the ocean and the diverse creatures that live there, both real and unreal. The world-renowned Carolin Widmann will play a new violin concerto by Clara Iannotta at the concert. This concerto recently made headlines in the cultural press when the orchestra that originally commissioned the piece refused to perform it. The concerto was written for Widmann and explores the possibilities of the violin and orchestra to the fullest. The concert will also feature Þuríður Jónsdóttir's work from 2014, Miss Reykjavík Rita.

Conductor

Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason

Violin

Carolin Widmann

Program

Thuridur Jónsdóttir Miss Reykjavík Rita

Clara Iannotta sand like gold-leaf in smithereens (Iceland premiere)

Kjartan Sveinsson New Work (World premiere)

Haukur Tómasson Sixty Silver Domes (World premiere)

Bára Gísladóttir sea sons seasons (Icelandic premiere)