Organist

Bjorn Steinar

Björn Steinar Sólbergsson is the organist and music director of Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík. He also teaches organ at the National Church Music School and the Iceland Academy of the Arts.

Björn Steinar studied music at the Akranes School of Music and the National Church Music School in Reykjavík. He continued his studies in Italy with James E. Göettsche and in France at the Conservatoire National de Region de Rueil Malmaison with Susan Landale, where he graduated with a soloist's diploma in organ playing (Prix de virtuosité) in 1986.

He worked as organist at Akureyri Church for 20 years. Björn Steinar has given numerous solo concerts here at home, in all the Nordic countries, in Europe and North America. He has played solo with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the North Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and The Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra. He has recorded for radio and television and on CDs, including all of Páll Ísólfsson's organ works for Skálholt Publishing and Jón Leif's organ concerto for the BIS publishing company.

Email address bjornsteinar@hallgrimskirkja.is

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