Organ Summer in Hallgrímskirkja - Steinar Logi Helgason, organ - Hallgrímskirkja and Hildigunnur Einarsdóttir, mezzo soprano

Organ Summer in Hallgrímskirkja 2023
Saturday August 5th at 12hrs
Steinar Logi Helgason, organ - Hallgrímskirkja
Hildigunnur Einarsdóttir, mezzo soprano - Iceland
Tickets are available at the entrance and on https://tix.is/is/event/15694/
Admission ISK 2.500 

Steinar Logi Helgason was born in 1990 and is educated as an organist, pianist and conductor. After studying piano in the Reykjavík College of music Steinar started studying the organ at the Music school of the National church of Iceland and later in the Iceland University of the Arts where he studied under organist Björn Steinar Sólbergsson and finished a Bachelor’s degree in Church music. Steinar furthered his studies in The Royal Danish Academy of music where he started a master’s degree in Church music under Hans Davidsson and later finishing a master’s degree in ensemble conducting. Steinar has performed widely as an organist, pianist and a conductor. Steinar took over the post of choir director in Hallgrímskirkja in August 2021 and is the founder and conductor of The Choir of Hallgrímskirkja.

Hildigunnur Einarsdóttir completed her final exam from the Singing School in Reykjavík under the guidance of Ólafar Kolbrún Harðardóttir and Signýjar Sæmundsdóttir and studied further in Germany and the Netherlands with Janet Williams and Jón Þorsteinsson. Hildigunnur has also completed a B.A. degree in creative music communication from the Iceland Academy of the Arts, where she took singing lessons with Hlín Pétursdóttir Behrens. Hildigunnur conducts the Árkór in Reykjavík and the Katla Women's Choir together with Lilja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir. Hildigunnur teaches singing at Sigursvein D. Kristinsson's Music School and Domus Vox Singing School.
Hildigunnur has been prominent in the church music scene and has sung the solo roles i.a. Messiah and Judas Maccabeus by Händel, St. Matthew's Passion, St. John's Passion and the Christmas Oratorio by Bach and Guðbrand's Mass by Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir. Hildigunnur has also sung a solo, i.a. with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Brák Baroque Orchestra and the Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra and premiered a number of works, e.g. by Hreiðar Inga Þorsteinsson, Ingibjörg Ýr Skarphéðinsdóttir and Kolbein Bjarnason. Hildigunnur was nominated for the Icelandic Music Prize in 2014 for her interpretation of Karl O. Runólfsson's songs with the chamber group Kúbus and recently won the Icelandic Music Prize for Singer of the Year in classical and contemporary music.