Organ Summer in Hallgrímskirkja - Eyþór Franzson Wechner, organ - Blönduóskirkja and Semjon Kalinowsky, viola - Lübeck Germany
Organ Summer in Hallgrímskirkja
Saturday August 12th at 12hrs
Eyþór Franzson Wechner, organ Blönduóskirkja
Semjon Kalinowsky, viola Lübeck Germany
Tickets are available at the entrance and on https://tix.is/is/event/
Admission ISK 2.500
Eyþór Franzson Wechner was born in Akranes. At the age of 14, he began organ studies, first under the guidance of Úlrik Ólason and later with Björn Steinar Sólbergsson at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland Music school and the Iceland Academy of Arts. After two years at the University of the Arts, he went to Germany. At the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig, Eyþór completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in organ performance in 2012 and a Master of Arts degree in 2014 at the same school. His main teacher in Leipzig was Prof. Stefan Engels. Eyþór is currently the working organist of Blönduós church and vicinity and teaches at the Music School of Austur-Húnvetningar. Eyþór has performed in solo concerts in Iceland, Germany, Lithuania and Australia.
Semjon Kalinowsky has performed widely throughout Europe, in Israel, Turkey and Russia. As a member of the Trio Arpeggione and a duo with his wife, the pianist Bella Kalinowska, he worked diligently to discover new chamber music, revisit forgotten works, and give well-known works a new guise. He has expanded the violist's repertoire with arrangements and releases in collaboration with renowned music publishers, such as Robert Lienau (Frankfurt), Peters (Leipzig), Hofmeister (Leipzig), Schott (Mainz) and Bärenreiter (Kassel). For his contribution, he was awarded the title "Honored Artist of Ukraine" by the President of Ukraine. Semjon studied at the Academy of Music in Lviv. He received a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Education and completed his postgraduate studies at the Academy in Danzig. He plays a viola made by Johann Babtist Schweitzer from 1817.