ARCHORA – ICELAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN HALLGRÍMSKIRKJA

ARCHORA – ICELAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN HALLGRÍMSKIRKJA
Friday 6th of October at 18hrs
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir, soprano
The Choir of Hallgrímskirkja
Steinar Logi Helgason, choir conductor
Eva Ollikainen, conductor

Tickets are available at the church and on: https://tix.is/is/si/buyingflow/tickets/15523
Admission ISK 4.900

This Friday Series concert with the ISO is entirely devoted to the works of Anna Þorvaldsdóttir. The concert is held in collaboration with Hallgrímskirkja. The performance starts with the orchestral piece METACOSMOS, in which beauty and chaos clash. Next is Anna's intimate choral psalm, Heyr þú oss á himnum á (Hear us in Heaven). Written in 2005, it is a setting of a psalm by Ólafur of Sandar, a 17th-century priest.

Another bewitching poem setting follows: Ad Genua for soprano, choir, and string orchestra, based on a text by Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir. Finally, Eva Ollikainen leads the orchestra in an interpretation Anna's work ARCHORA. Eva also conducted the world premiere of this piece, at the BBC PROMS in the Royal Albert Hall in summer 2022. It was performed without organ at a concert in Eldborg the following autumn, but this time it will sound with the glorious Klais-organ of Hallgrímskirkja.