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Austurbakki 2, 101 Reykjavík

Dates
Harpa
28, January 2022 - 01, March 2022 (see calendar for other dates)
Open from 7.30pm - 8.30pm

Website https://www.darkmusicdays.is/is/heida-og-tinna
General Admission See on official website

Composers Þóranna Dögg Björnsdóttir, Þórunn Björnsdóttir, Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson and Gunnar Karel Másson have written music especially for Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir and Heiða Árnadóttir. These compositions travel through electric atmosphere, emotions of serenity, imitation, desperation towards the central stage. Þóranna Björnsdóttir will participate in the performance of her piece Scent & Sound games (Ilm- og ómleikar).

The programme
* Scent & Sound games by Þóranna Björnsdóttir
Spirit III - Reset for voice and harmonium by Þórunn Björsdóttir
* Songs of Violence/Songs of Despair by Gunnar Karel Másson, for voice, toy piano, and prepared piano.
* Mamma pikkar á tölvu sumarið 1988 for toy piano by Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson, is inspired by a little poem about youth.
* Adibaran Ocirebal is a solo opera for voice and electronics by Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson.

Performers
Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir is a concert pianist with a broad experience in new music having premiered numerous works written especially for her. She is active in the Icelandic experimental music scene working on a regular basis with Icelandic composers along with solo works with artists including Helmut Lachenmann, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Peter Ablinger, Morton Subotnick, Cory Arcangel and Mme Yvonne-Loriod Messiaen.
21st century music is her passion. Prepared piano, electronics, toy piano, theatre pieces and performance works often show up on her programs. In recent years Tinna has been active as a performance artist, making installations, soundscapes and performance works with materials like piano parts, her own brainwaves, hot and cold glass and electronic music.

The singer Heiða Árnadóttir is the local artist of the Dark Music Days festival 2020-2022. In her career she has emphasized the performance of modern music, folk, jazz, experimental, as well as lieder. She has premiered many works by Icelandic composers such as Gunnar Karel Másson, Ásbjörg Jónsdóttir, Hafsteinn Þórólfsson, Þórunn Björsdóttir, and Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson.

n addition to numerous concerts in Iceland where Heiða has premiered compositions with Ensemble Adapter and Caput, she has performed in Holland, Belgium, France, India, Sweden and Denmark. Heiða performs regularly in festivals including Nordic Music Days, Iceland Airwaves, Skálholt Summer Festival, Siglufjörður Folk Festival, Reykjavík Jazz Festival and a range of foreign festivals.

Heiða’s performance as a singer/songwriter in the band Mogil has produced the release of four CDs. Their CD Ró was nominated for the Icelandic Music Awards in 2008, and their newest CD Adventa , based on Gunnar Gunnarsson´s famous novel of the same name, was issued by the German publishing company Winter and Winter in 2019.

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