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Gunnarsdóttir & Gunnarsdóttir - Classics in the moorland
The Nordic House
Event info
Snæbjörg Guðmunda Gunnarsdóttir soprano singer and Þóra Kristín Gunnarsdóttir pianist both live abroad, Snæbjörg in Stuttgart and Thora in Zurich. The first concert as a duo is a tribute to their home country and their respective countries of residence. The first part of the repertoire contains some of the best of German and Swiss Romanticism: Works by Wagner, Strauss, Wolf and the Swiss Paul Juon and Othmar Schoeck. The second part is dedicated to Iceland with music including works by Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Jórunn Viðar and Tryggvi M. Baldvinsson, with folkloristic elements, colourful melodies and even an Icelandic tango.
Snæbjörg Guðmunda Gunnarsdóttir studied at the Söngskóli in Reykjavik and Iceland Academy of the Arts. She received a master's degree in 2019 from the opera class of the Academy of Music in Stuttgart. Snæbjörg made her debut as Desdemona in the children's opera Der Kleine und Otello by Verdi / Aurélien Bello at the Osterfestspiele in Baden Baden and last summer she performed the role of Night Queen at Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen in Germany.
Þóra Kristín Gunnarsdóttir received a master's degree in performance, teaching and chamber music from the University of Lucerne in 2017 and graduated with honours. In the fall of 2017 she began studying performance and chamber music at the University of the Arts in Zurich. She teaches and performs widely with various singers and instrumentalists.
