Messiaen Festival Stavanger

Performing L´Alouette Calandrelle from Catalogue d´Oiseaux by Olivier Messiaen at the opening ceremony of the Symposium at the Messiaen Festival in Stavanger, Norway. 19th of November at 10 am, at Lille konsertsal in Bjergsted
Messiaen Festival Stavanger

Micropera

Premiere of the micropera Átt-Atvinnuvegur by Tryggvi M. Baldvinsson, with Ingibjörg Gudjónsdóttir, soprano, on the 4th of October 2008. Celebration of Bessastadaskóli´s anniversary.

Njúton on the road

Njúton´s summer includes a mini tour in Iceland, giving concerts at Akureyri Art Summer Festival, in Reykjavík and at Skálholt Summer Concerts Festival:
-July 25th at 12 pm at Akureyri Art Summer Festival, in Ketilhúsid. Two premieres:
Thurídur Jónsdóttir: Pes
Karólína Eiríksdóttir: Stjörnumuldur
Thráinn Hjálmarsson: _4 premiere
Ragnhildur Gísladóttir: Arnold
María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir: Estremadura premiere
-July 27th at 4 pm, location: Grettisgata 18, Reykjavík: Same program as above plus Granit Games for piano by Mist Thorkelsdóttir
-August 2nd at 9 pm, concert at Skálholt Summer Concerts Festival
Performers: Hildur Ársælsdóttir, saw and violin, Berglind María Tómasdóttir, flute, Grímur Helgason, clarinet, Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir, piano, Frank Aarnink, percussion
Njúton

Vid Djúpid Music Festival 2008

Tinna and violinist Una Sveinbjanardóttir will perform at the annual music festival Vid Djúpid in Iceland this summer. Program: Sonata by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett for violin and piano, which will have an Icelandic premiere here, Recitativo e Arioso by Witold Lutoslawski for violin and piano and Meditation by Karólína Eiríksdóttir for violin. This concert is part of the lunch recital series on the 23rd of June in Edinborgarhús in Ísafjördur at 12.10 pm
Vid Djúpid

Njúton - Indigenous Music

Njúton gives a second concert on the 8th of June in Fríkirkjan in Reykjavík at 8 pm, which is dedicated to the memory of composer Stephen Lucky Mosko. He first visited Iceland in the early seventies, was very interested in the musical heritage of Iceland and studied it extensively. As a faculty member of CalArts for many years he influenced numbers of students with his works and teaching, including Icelandic composers Hilmar Thórdarson and Kolbeinn Einarsson. The program of this concert consists of his large scale chamber work Indigenous Music II, from 1984. Also: Sononymus for piano - carved in stone by Hilmar Thórdarson, 18 V (premiere) for flute and piano by Kolbeinn Einarsson and Fluff and Drama by Atli Heimir Sveinsson, which was originally composed for the California EAR Unit
Njúton
Bedroom Community

Njúton and Bedroom Community

Njúton and Bedroom Community join forces on the 6th and 8th of June 2008 in Fríkirkjan in Reykjavík. An exciting combination - the first concert, on the 6th of June at 9 pm, includes performances of Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965 (Echoes I) by George Crumb and Durations 1 by Morton Feldman with chamber group Njúton and Valgeir Sigurdsson's and Sam Amidon´s performances featuring their recent albums, Ekvílibríum and All Is Well
Njúton
Bedroom Community

Morton Subotnick

Concert with Morton Subotnick's new works: The Other Piano (2007) for piano and computer sounds and the electronic work Until Spring Revisited (2008) at the RAFLOST Electronic Arts Festival. In Sölvhóll Music Hall, 1st of May at 8 pm
Raflost
Morton Subotnick

Constitution of Iceland

Music to the Icelandic Constitution will be premiered at Ketilhúsið in Akureyri on March 15th at 2 pm. This is a joint production of the visual art duo Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson and composer Karólína Eiríksdóttir. The piece is scored for soprano, baritone, piano, double bass and mixed choir and will be premiered by soprano Ingibjörg Guðjónsdóttir, baritone Bergþór Pálsson, pianist Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir, bass player Gunnlaugur Torfi Stefánsson and the chamber choir Hymnódía directed by Eyþór Ingi Jónsson. The performance is a part of the art exhibition Bye-bye Iceland, which opens the same day at the Akureyri Art Museum.

Paris II

Concert at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris on the 26th of February 2008 at 8.30 pm in Salle Edmond Michelet. Program: Works by composer Karólína Eiríksdóttir: Partíta (piano), Flute Reel and Sónata for guitar, performed by Tinna, Hafdís Vigfúsdóttir and Ögmundur Thór Jóhannesson
Karólína Eiríksdóttir
citedesartsparis.net

Berkeley

Concert with Berglind María Tómasdóttir, flutist, at Maybeck Studios, Berkeley, CA, on the 10th of February 2008 at 4 pm
Berglind María

Bang on a Can Marathon

A performance included in Bang on a Can’s Marathon Festival with Berglind María Tómadóttir, flutist, on the 9th of February at 1.15 pm in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Forum, San Francisco, CA
Bang on a Can
ybca.org

Njúton/Dark Music Days Festival

5th of February 2008 at 8 pm: Concert in Idnó, Reykjavík with Njúton Ensemble included in the Dark Music Days festival. Premieres of works by Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson, Karólína Eiríksdóttir and Simon Steen-Andersen. Other works by Samson Young, Steingrímur Rohloff and Annie Gosfield, which are premiered in Iceland
Dark Music Days Festival

Paris

Concert at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris on the 8th of January 2008 at 8.30 pm in Salle Edmond Michelet. Program: Catalogue d'Oiseaux, Book V by O. Messiaen, Partíta by Karólína Eiríksdóttir, Granit Games by Mist Thorkelsdóttir
citedesartsparis.net

Tinna´s first solo CD release

Tinna´s first solo CD, Granit Games, will be released on December 13th 2007 by Bad Taste ltd. containing Icelandic pianomusic - from the folksongs to the laptop. All pieces except Leifs's, were written for Tinna and most of them premiered at the Dark Music Days festival in Iceland in 2005. Pieces by Mist Thorkelsdóttir, Kolbeinn Einarsson, Jón Leifs, Hilmar Thórdarson, Thorsteinn Hauksson, Áskell Másson and Steingrímur Rohloff. Three pieces involve computer sounds. These are first recordings, except for Four Pieces, op. 2 by Jón Leifs, and were recorded some days in August 2006 by Sveinn Kjartansson

Bad Taste Records

CD Release: Njúton

The new music group Njúton releases its first CD, Roto con moto, with Bad Taste Records on the 7th of December 2007. A celebration will be held between 5-7 pm in Bad Taste´s record store on Laugavegur in Reykjavík
Bad Taste Records
Njúton

Bessastadaskóli 200 years

In celebration of Bessastadaskóli´s 200 years, premiere of Njóla for piano and soprano by Karólína Eiríksdóttir, with Ingibjörg Gudjónsdóttir, soprano, 1st of December 2007
Karólína Eiríksdóttir

Hugo String Quartet/UNM 07

The string quartet HUGO [Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, violin, Hrafnhildur Atladóttir, violin, Gudrún Hrund Hardardóttir, viola, Hrafnkell Orri Egilsson, cello] gives a concert at the UNM festival, in fact this concert features Hugo + Tinna. Works a.o. by: Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Jeppe Just Christensen and Emil Bernhardt. In Idnó, September 5th 2007 at 8pm
UNM Iceland

Ung Nordisk Musik 2007

The UNM festival is held in Iceland this year, where amounts of works by young Scandinavian composers will be performed. Voice Concert in the Nordic House, performing Quaint by Nicolai Worsaae with Herdís Anna Jónasdóttir, soprano and Sigurgeir Agnarsson, cellist on
September 3rd 2007 at 8 pm
UNM Iceland

Barlow-Premiere

S.L.Á.T.U.R. is giving a concert with works by Clarence Barlow during his stay here in Iceland. World premiere of Septima de Facto and also to be performed: Sachets des siseaux insatiables, both pieces written for a septet. Two other pieces are on the program by founding members of S.L.Á.T.U.R.: Skula by Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson og SOOSSOOS for piano and four loudspeakers by Áki Ásgeirsson. Anima Gallery, July 7th 2007 at 8 pm

International Aton Music Days

International Aton Music Days: Iceland vs. Bali. Proudly featuring the renowned musicians Evan Ziporyn, clarinetist, composer and Gamelan expert and Christine Southworth, composer and Gamelan expert. Works by Evan Ziporyn and Gamelan music from Bali will be heard and among others: Speak! At-man for flute and piano with Berglind María Tómasdóttir, flautist. Fríkirkjan, 27th of June 2007 at 8 pm
Aton
Evan Ziporyn
Christine Southworth

Live Radio Concert at Vid Djúpid

A live Radio Concert of The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, celebrating midsummer. Artists of the festival will perform and to be heard is a new piano piece by local composer Jónas Tómasson. 23rd of June 2007, in Hamrar concert hall at 9 pm
Við Djúpið

Vid Djúpid festival 2007

Concert with the new music group ATON, featuring special guests: Evan Ziporyn and Christine Southworth at the music festival Vid Djúpid in Iceland. Exciting combination: New Icelandic chamber works/works by Evan Ziporyn/Gamelan music from Bali. Edinborgarhús, Ísafjördur at 8 pm on the 22nd of June
Við Djúpið
Evan Ziporyn
Christine Southworth

Reykjavík Arts Festival 2007

Young soloists - Icelandic piano music. Program: Premiere of five new piano pieces by the Icelandic composers Karólína Eiríksdóttir, Hilmar Thórdarson, Jónas Tómasson, Áki Ásgeirsson and Gunnar Andreas Kristinsson. A combination of traditional piano and electronics. In the concert hall Ýmir, Reykjavík at 8 pm on the 24th of May

Reykjavík Arts Festival

Reykjavík Arts festival 07: Northern Premiere

The program at the Reykjavík Arts festival 2007 will be premiered in the northern part of Iceland. Four new piano pieces premiered by Icelandic composers Karólína Eiríksdóttir, Hilmar Thórdarson, Jónas Tómasson and Gunnar Andreas Kristinsson and an extra work by Mist Thorkelsdóttir. Laugarborg, May 22nd at 8 pm

Reykjavík Arts Festival

15:15 CAPUT

The new music ensemble CAPUT gives a concert with new works by new composers; Iceland meets Rumenia. The trio Symplegade by Rumanian young composer Diana Rotaru for flute, percussion and piano will be performed. The concert takes place in the 15:15 series in the Nordic House in Reykjavík, 29th of April 2007 at 3.15 pm
Caput

Lavaland in Copenhagen

Recital with Icelandic contemporary piano music + electronics in connection with the exhibition Lavaland in GL Strand Modern Art Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark on the 1st of March 2007 at 8.30 pm. The exhibition features works by Icelandic artists Jóhannes S. Kjarval and Ólafur Elíasson
GL Strand

Dark Music Days 07 Aton

Aton Ensemble will perform at the Dark Music Days 2007, 23rd of January at the National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík at 8 pm. Icelandic chamber works
Aton

Nordic Music Days 06

Aton Ensemble will be performing at the Nordic Music Days 2006, 9th of October in Sölvhóll, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík at 8 pm. Icelandic and Scandinavian chamber works, a.o. premiere of Vibrancy by Steingrímur Rohloff, Attitude by Lene Grenager and Failure for prepared piano, tape and video by Kaj Aune
Aton

Nordic Music Days 06

CAPUT, the new music ensemble is giving a concert at the Nordic Music Days festival 2006, on the 6th of October in Salurinn, Kópavogur at 7 pm. Scandinavian chamber music including Quartet by the Swedish composer Per Mårtensson for flute, percussion and piano
CAPUT

Music Festival Vid Djúpid 2006

Piano recital at the music festival "Vid Djúpid" in Iceland. Works by Edvard Grieg, Jón Leifs, Mist Thorkelsdóttir, Áskell Másson and Thorsteinn Hauksson. 22nd of June 2006 at 8 pm in Hamrar, Ísafjördur
Vid Djúpid

Bergen International Festival 2006

Solo recital at the Bergen International Festival 2006, Norway, in the concert series Young Talents. The program spans the period from Edvard Grieg's Lyric Pieces and piano music of Icelandic composer Jón Leifs to modern Icelandic piano works, some of which contain electronics. All the new Icelandic pieces were written for Tinna, the most recent in 2004. The concert will be held at the prestigious Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen, which was once Grieg's home, in Troldsalen on the 2nd of June 2006 at 11.30 am
Bergen International Festival
Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen

Aton Ensemble tours in the USA

Aton Ensemble is touring in the States in April.
April 5th - The Lily Pad, with Know Trio, Inman Square, 1355 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA.
April 6th - 21 Grand, 416 25th Street (at Broadway), Oakland, CA.
April 9th - Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA.
April 10th - Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), 541 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA.
April 12th - CalArts, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA.
April 15th - University of California, San Diego, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA.

Atón
Know Trio

Nature Poems

Solo recital at the Dark Music Days festival 2006. Dedicated to nature, the piano and the artist Dieter Roth, in cooperation with American composer Greg Davis, who will also perform. The concept "prepered piano" is celebrated and some pieces attempt to invent a new instrument. Sounds and images (e.g. video art) and the making of new techniques. Guest of honor: the grand piano of Dieter Roth, which was borrowed for the recital from Björn Roth for a music happening in the spirit of the famous artist. Program: George Crumb: From Makrokosmos II, Greg Davis: Emptying for prepared piano - Icel. vers. dedicated to Dieter Roth, Sea Chime for prepared piano premiere, River Thought for accordion and computer premiere, Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro Illustrazioni and Hilmar Thórdarson: Sononymus - carved in stone - for piano and computer premiere. In Ýmir, 8th of February at 8 pm, Reykjavík
Dieter Roth
Greg Davis

Dark Music Days 2006: Aton

Aton Ensemble´s concert at the Dark Music Days festival 2006 in the concert hall Ýmir on the 4th of February, Reykjavík at 8 pm, plenty of premieres
Aton

Aton Ensemble´s New Year´s concert

New Year´s concert of Aton Ensemble in Idnó, 30th of December 2005 at 8.30 pm, Reykjavík. Plenty of premieres
Aton

L´amour fou concert

Concert to celebrate the first CD release of Icelandic tango band L'amour fou at the National Theatre Cellar in Reykjavík, 15th of December 2005 at 9 pm
L´amour fou

Portrait of Karólína Eiríksdóttir

Portrait concert with works by composer Karólína Eiríksdóttir at the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavík, October 8th 2005. The program includes Miniatures, Renku, Capriccio and the premiere of Strenglag for viola and piano among other works. Performers: Gudrún Hrund Hardardóttir, viola, Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, violin, Hrafnkell Orri Egilsson, cello, Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson, clarinet and others
Karólína Eiríksdóttir

Beijing

Two solo recitals in Beijing, People´s Republic of China, organized by the Icelandic Embassy in Beijing. The program consists of Icelandic, Scandinavian and Chinese pieces. Location: Summit Club, Instrument: the Bösendorfer Kaiser, Dates: June 17th and 18th 2005
http://www.iceland.org/cn/index.html

Frankfurt IEMA

Performance of Ikarus for piano and electronic sounds by Steingrímur Rohloff at the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, Haus der Deutschen Ensemble Akademie, Frankfurt, May 31st 2005

Frederiks Bastion

Performance of Fantasiestück for piano by Áskell Másson at a concert of the Staka chamber choir, May 19th 2005 at Frederiks Bastion, Copenhagen
Staka

Recital in Berlin

Piano recital at the Nordic Embassies in Berlin. New works by Icelandic composers: Mist Thorkelsdóttir, Áskell Másson, Thorsteinn Hauksson, Steingrímur Rohloff and Kolbeinn Einarsson. Felleshus - Auditorium on the 11th of May 2005
The Nordic Embassies

Nordischer Klang 2005

Piano recital at the festival Nordischer Klang in Greifswald, Germany May 5th. New works by Icelandic composers: Mist Thorkelsdóttir, Áskell Másson, Thorsteinn Hauksson, Steingrímur Rohloff and Kolbeinn Einarsson
Nordischer Klang

The Unconventional Piano

Solo recital in the "Ski Week" in Ísafjördur, Iceland on the 23rd of March 2005. The program contains pieces from the 20th and 21st century which display the piano in a new light, both concerning technique and form

15:15 Concert Series

Solo recital in the 15:15 concert series at the City Theater in Reykjavík on the 19th of March 2005. The program consists of the first half of Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage, Piano Piece (to Philip Guston) and Intermission 5 by Morton Feldman, Guero by Helmut Lachenmann, For Prepared Piano by Christian Wolff and Quattro Illustrazioni by Giacinto Scelsi

Dark Music Days 2005

Solo recital at the Dark Music Days festival on February 5th. Premieres of 5 new piano pieces by 5 Icelandic composers in Salurinn, Kópavogur, Iceland. By: Mist Thorkelsdóttir, Áskell Másson, Thorsteinn Hauksson, Steingrímur Rohloff and Kolbeinn Einarsson