Seigla is a chamber music festival that reimagines the traditional concert format. The festival takes place annually in Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík, Iceland, the second weekend in August.

This year’s programme centres around the theme narrative. We invite the audience and performers to interpret the theme in the broadest and most personal ways, and from all kinds of perspectives, whether by exploring how the concert experience itself can create a shared narrative between performers and audience, or how music can in some way carry a narrative on its own. The narrative may emerge through the music, the text, the space, or the interactions. The concept can be clearly defined or it can be experimental and open.

Seigla’s Festival Programme 2025:

Friday August 8th

19:00 Opening Ceremony in Hörpuhorn

20:00 Opening Recital: Together & Apart in Norðurljós

Saturday August 9th

16:30 Workshop: Graphic Notation

17:30 The Human Voice in Norðurljós

20:00 Quarter-Life Crisis in Norðurljós

Sunday August 10th

15:30 Tröllkonan og töfraeyjan: fjölskyldutónleikar í Hörpuhorni

19:00 Tónleikaspjall í Hörpuhorni

20:00 Lokatónleikar: Bergmál úr garðinum í Norðurljósum

22:00 Lokahóf Seiglu í Marshallhúsinu, 4. hæð

Seigla Artists 2025: KIMI ensemble, Þórgunnur Anna Örnólfsdóttir, Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Katerina Anagnostidou, Temporal Harmonies Inc., Lydia Walquist, Mikolaj Piszczorowicz, Xiaowen Shang, Stundarómur, Ólína Ákadóttir, Steinunn María Þormar, Hafrún Birna Björnsdóttir, Ester Aasland, Daniel Haugen, Guja Sandholt, Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir, Eva Þyri Hilmarsdóttir, Kristín Einarsdóttir Mäntylä, Sigríður Ásta Olgeirsdóttir.

Erna Vala Arnardóttir, Artistic Director

Pétur Ernir Svavarsson, Project Manager

Lee Marable, Graphic Designer

Erla Rut Árnadóttir, Financial Manager

Þorgrímur Þorsteinsson, Tonmeister

Prices:

Festival Pass

Standard: 18.000kr

Discounted Tickets (students, Schumann Society members, low-income): 13.000kr

Single Tickets

General admission: 5.800kr

Discounted Tickets (students, Schumann Society members, low-income): 3.500kr

More information, festival programme and artists bios available at www.seiglafestival.com

Harpa is the main sponsor of Seigla 2025. Seigla music festival is supported by SUT and Ruth Hermanns Music Fund, Ýlir, Iceland University of the Arts and The Icelandic Schumann Society.