Event info

The harpsichord player Guðrún Óskarsdóttir will blend together old and new music written for the harpsichord. She will play music by Francois Couperin. Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Kolbeinn Bjarnason and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

Guðrún Óskarsdóttir is a dedicated interpreter of both baroque and contemporary music

and has taken part in numerous first performances.

She studied the piano at the Reykjavík College of music. There she also got to know the harpsichord and had her first lessons with Helga Ingólfsdóttir. For further studies she went to Holland and studied at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam with Anneke Uittenbosch and later with Jesper Böje Christensen at Scola Cantorum in Basel and with Francoise Lengellé in Paris.

Guðrún is featured on numerous recordings and has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in recitals and concerts in Iceland, Europe, USA and Japan. She is a member of Nordic Affect and Caput new music ensemble. She also plays regularly with the Icelandic Symphonie Orchestra and has performed for the Icelandic Opera and the Icelandic Dance Company.

She is a strong advocate for new music being created for the harpsichord. For her solo album “In Paradisum” that contains new icelandic music, she was awarded the Icelandic Music Prise.