All Saints' Day

Sunday November 3rd at 17 hrs

Hljómeyki Chamber Choir

Stefan Sand conductor

Björn Steinar Sólbergsson organ

Aðgangseyrir / Admission  ISK 3.900

Hljómeyki Chamber Choir was founded in 1974. During its first years, the choir performed under the direction of Ruth L. Magnússon and concentrated primarily on secular music from all over the world. Since 1986, when the group began collaborating with the Skálholt Summer Concert Festival, they have concentrated on performing new Icelandic music, commissioning at least one major work annually. In its concerts at Skálholt, Hljómeyki premiered more than 50 pieces, most of them by prominent Icelandic composers. The choir also regularly takes part in new music festivals like the Nordic Music Days and the Icelandic Composers’ Society’s festival, Dark Music Days. 

In recent years the choir has performed with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, singing the choir parts in Bizet‘s Carmen, Mozart‘s La clemenza di Tito and Richard Einhorn‘s Voices of Light, Gershwin‘s Porgy and Bess and most recently Fact of the Matter by Hildur Guðnadóttir. 

Hljómeyki has represented Iceland in choral competitions and festivals, and has published several CDs and publications on streaming services.

Björn Steinar Sólbergsson, organist and music-director of Hallgrímskirkja - Reykjavík was born in Akranes, western Iceland in 1961. In 1981 he completed his studies at the National Church School of Music, majoring in organ, before studying for a year in

of Music Orchestra.